With the exception of the few black shapes that made their appearance at the start and the end of her painting life, Martin's palette is airy and light — neither heavy nor dark — and it's no stretch to associate this with the classicism she espoused or
with the ideas of perfection and joy and innocence, and so on, which held her rapt.
Not exact matches
Leonardo once explained to a Duke, who was complaining a painting was not progressing, «Men
of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least, for their minds are occupied
with their
ideas and the
perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.»
By describing this place as perfect, you're allowed to fill it
with whatever you want as your
idea of «
perfection» because its impo.ssible for you to be «let down» by a heaven waiting for you that doesn't conform to
perfection.
In Man's Vision
of God, Hartshorne's classification is made
with sole reference to the
idea of perfection.
In this scheme the quantifiers «all,» «some,» and «none» are combined
with the
ideas of «absolute
perfection,» «relative
perfection,» and «imperfection'to produce seven different conceptions
of deity which are conveniently grouped into three broad types
of theism: classical theism, within which God is conceived as absolutely perfect in all respects and in no way surpassable; atheistic views, in which there is no being which is in any respect perfect or unsurpassable; and the «new theism,» in which God is in some respects perfect and unsurpassable by others but is surpassable by himself.
(Adventures
of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling
of a quick shift
of aim from the tameness
of outworn
perfection to some other ideal
with its freshness still upon it.»
But the essence
of the Hellenistic
idea of God is that deity is by nature all that men by nature can not be: God is uncompounded, absolutely simple, hence static (a state identified
with perfection), unchanging, subject to no variation, eternal, impassible, unmoved.
Against the parching certitudes
of Marxism - Leninism, Solzhenitsyn sets the sort
of thinking that gives life — the affirmation, not
of the
idea of humanity and its destined
perfection, nor
of endless and irremediable brutality, but
of the reality
of the human individual
with his simultaneous weakness and dignity.
I am in love
with both coconut and cherries so this is my
idea of perfection!
Oyako donburi is my
idea of Japanese comfort food: tender to
perfection, flavorful,
with lots
of yummy sauce over fresh hot steamy rice.
I'm crazy obsessed
with the nut butter, honey, and grain combo, so these are definitely
idea of perfection.
But the
idea of perfection has been taken to a whole new level
with women.
Let go worrying about what others think
of me, let go
of the
idea of «
perfection» and the worry that I'm doing it «right» — whatever «right» is (dinner every night, a clean house, crafting
with the kids, looking «blog» worthy all
of the time...).
I think it's definitely worth including, you can always restate your
idea of perfection, but being «spacious» will certainly help people (me) relax
with your
ideas, while not putting them off, while giving them time to get into your
ideas more fully.
I went to the flagship LV store on Champs Elysee and immediately fell in love
with my
idea of pink
perfection.
by Walter Chaw Manny Farber described the films
of Robert Bresson as «crystalline,» and it's hard to argue
with the singular
idea of purity represented by that word: they're all
of gesture and implication, reduced down to the purest grist so that the powder
of dramatic movements, rubbed together, might hum in miniature
perfection.
She does go out
with men, but like one
of the papers handed to her in class by any one
of her students, she is constantly grading them against her
idea of perfection, and they are all found to be lacking.
My opinion
of why the company was so successful to begin
with is the product
ideas were great, but more importantly they were executed to
perfection.
For the curators, Peter Eleey
with Magalí Arriola
of the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Byars was «obsessed by the
idea of perfection,» including big words like beauty and truth.
The work on view will highlight the shifting
of paradigms necessary to find beauty within imperfect gestures, the parallels between systemic
ideas of perfection and modes
of ideal image construction, and how the works on view engage
with these possibilities.
Curated by Milena Hoegsberg and Megha Ralapati, «A Perfect Human» explores people's struggle for and obsessions
with personal and collective
ideas of perfection: How we stage, package, and present ourselves, communicating and connecting
with each other and the world.
Ad Reinhardt, whose black paintings seem a world away from Grill's lively color - forms, shared
with Grill a metaphysical approach
with his
idea that «art is involved in a certain kind
of perfection.»
At L.A. Louver, a sharply focused show zeros in on LeWitt's capacity to transform abstract
ideas into concrete objects that viewers experience as slippery interminglings
of drawing, painting and sculpture — while comparing and contrasting such physical entities
with idealized images
of geometric
perfection, which inhabit the mind's eye but never appear in the real world.
Reinforcing the
idea of perfection and its demands upon young females, the subjects» bedrooms are appropriately embellished
with carefully curated patterns, complimentary colors and minimal furnishings.»
With the advent
of sous vide cooking in restaurants and now at home, many thought nirvana had been reached: you chose your temperature — say, a 65 °F egg — and no matter how long the egg sat in the water bath it would emerge cooked to your
idea of perfection.