Sentences with phrase «world of abstract»

We'll try to answer that question this week as we look at stories from the world of abstract art that examine artists» minds.

Flavin's fluorescent light pieces appeared publicly in 1964 and sought to make a break with the gestural and impassioned world of abstract expressionism and embark on a new artistic exploration into minimalism.

A decade after his initial plunge into the New York art scene and the world of abstract painting, Bowling — then at the vanguard of Greenbergian post-painterly abstraction — returned to London, both confident in his instinctive understanding of and facility for paint, colour and form, and restless to experiment with new techniques and traditions.

Greenberg later admitted Sobel's work was the first example of all - over painting he'd seen.5 It's not totally clear why Sobel faded from visibility, but one can assume her virtual - outsider status and the fact that she was a homemaker in the 1940s didn't help her cause in the male - dominated world of abstract expressionism.

Here on BBC Arts we take an in - depth look at the influence of abstract art on modern design with renowned designer Peter Saville; saxophonist Soweto Kinch explores how jazz embraced abstract through its album cover iconography; Alastair Sooke talks technique as he gets inside the world of abstract master Jackson Pollock, finding out just how challenging it is to create one of his famous drip paintings.

These might be thought of as unanswerable questions, but by looking at key historical figures and exploring the private world of abstract artists today, Collings shows that there are, in fact, answers.

In keeping with Peres» no - guts - no - glory attitude, he describes Wadden as «expanding the world of abstract geometric painting into the realm of humility and human - ness».

In a world of abstract expressionism and conceptualism he became part of that endangered species, a figurative painter, a storyteller.

We'll explain that, and also take a look at the amount of ink being given to the oil firm BP lately, as well as checking in on what Chinese artists have been doing with ink for the last 30 years, as we search the globe in our weekly roundup of stories from the world of abstract art.

The hardcover book, which features over 200 lavish color images documenting Texas» unique role (past and present) in the world of abstract art, will be available at Galveston Arts Center during the exhibit.

Dive into her world of abstract landscapes!

The collaboration aims at sharing, editing and exhibiting new historical materials related and connected to the world of abstract art of the seminal period of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe and in the USA.

Undaunted by retirement, Thomas ventured into the nearly all - white male art world of abstract painting of the 1960s.

Alongside color field painting and post-painterly abstraction, hard edge painting was introduced to the world of abstract art as a response to the gestural Abstract Expressionism.

During the 1950s, Leslie's studio became an important meeting place for New York artists, and Leslie was also a regular presence in the world of abstract expressionism, frequenting the Cedar Bar and participating in the 1951 Ninth Street Show.

It is a beautiful and photogenic wall but the sculptures in front of it can overcome this photogenic world with mind and eye and recreate this unique world of abstract sculpture.

140 is an old - school platformer set in a world of abstract colorful graphics with a musical twist.

While Hegel remained in a world of abstract ideas, Marx turned back to concrete reality.

Richard Hall has enjoyed a long, successful career in fine art using his talents to explore the opposing worlds of abstract art and still - life.

Not exact matches

High triglycerides increase cardiovascular events, medical costs, and resource utilization in a real - world analysis of statin - treated patients with high cardiovascular risk and well - controlled low - density lipoprotein cholesterol [abstract].

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

For many people around the world, the realm of banking is already abstract, just as their understanding of digital technologies is.

There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

First, much of the mathematics that is so spectacularly effective in physical theory was worked out as an abstract exercise by pure mathematicians long before it was applied to the real world....

It is absorbed into the permanent structure of the non-temporal world to endure as an abstract foundation for ensuing change.

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

It abstracts from the evil in the world while retaining the positive values contained even in experiences of evil.

Nevertheless, process theology can never adopt this praxis model for theology without qualification.35 Political theologians are right to warn Christians against the temptation to be drawn into abstract thought for its own sake in a world characterized by starvation and oppression, and thought that lacks relevance to the salvation of the whole world is a luxury the world can not afford.

But all academic disciplines abstract from the actual world in such ways that they are not qualified to provide the overview for the formation of public policy.

Theologians move in two worlds, working not only with the abstract categories of philosophy but also with the highly concrete and often complex literary forms of the Bible.

Researchers can quickly obtain abstracts as well as a bibliography on any topic which has been discussed in the scientific alcohol literature of the world.

Living as we do in a more sterilized and abstracted world of steel, plastic, and fiberglass, the organic, tactile immediacy of the world Hansen depicts is arresting.

Since we routinely use the framework of abstract three dimensional geometry to describe, measure, predict and position real world objects the distinction between the conceptual and the actual gets lost.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

For those bred in the abstract, «objective» world of print, such characteristics reek of a decline into undefined «subjectivism».

Most of them recognize that economics as an academic discipline abstracts from the full concreteness of human beings and the natural world.

This is a style of communication that is «messy» for those bred with the clean «logical» world of print culture's abstracted ideas.

Boomershine also suggests that the abstracted ideas of theology and doctrine were the means by which the early church adapted their largely oral, lived faith to the abstracted world of Greco - Roman manuscript culture.

Then a theological passage, «Eternal objects, as in God's primordial nature, constitute the Platonic world of ideas» (PR 73), is translated: God's primordial nature is an abstract structure of mathematical Platonic forms (PW 59/56).

We are familiar with the mistake of trying to force from these abstract models every feature of the world they are modeling.

On analogy; Hartshorne would say that God's knowledge of the world is never abstract but always concrete and participatory.

Even the word «environment» is so intellectual, removed from the textures, smells, and colors of the living world; abstracted from its beauty.

The Rektoratsrede fleshes but these somewhat abstract themes of Being and Time, which argues that «resolve demands that man know his place in the world.»

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

He seems to suggest, for example, that people approach tragedies and grief not so much by grieving but by raising abstract questions about the causes of suffering in the world.

The clear, fully conscious, and definite awareness of this world is a highly selective, abstract, and organized reduction of causal efficacy, giving a sense of an organized world there, in front of us, a sense Whitehead names presentational immediacy.

We encounter the radical, abyss - wide oppositions of life and death, beginning and end, innocence and Fall, the light of Spirit and the darkness of flesh, the certainties of primordial Being and the uncertainties of history, the abstract and the concrete, God and the world.

What takes place in the present is ordered through the abstracting function of I - It into the world of categories — of space and time, cause and effect.

The capacities for abstract reasoning, symbolic language, self - and death - awareness set mankind apart from the rest of the biological world.

The teacher is disinterested, yet he is very much a self, for he is a living embodiment of a world rather than an abstract social code or system of morality.