Sentences with phrase «world on abstraction»

Press release excerpt: The exhibition «examines the influence of architecture and the built world on abstraction.»

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«Obadiah was a cripple and a grump, on the beak of a bald - headed bird» Some lyricists are able to delicately transcend cohesive thoughts into imaginative worlds of abstraction.

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

In his main work, Difference and Repetition (1968), he has shown why the conception of concrete immediacy in and between occasions must not be considered naive in a post-Hegelian sense, but post-Hegelian altogether.15 In order to achieve this aim, Deleuze replaces the categorization of the world into the general and the individual in favor of the distinction of the universal and the singular.16 On the level of abstraction, «mediation» describes the analysis of that which is subjected to a «law.»

If economists are to blame, it is because they do not remind policy makers that their recommendations are based on abstractions rather than on the real world.

On the other hand, if these lesser individuals do not preserve all of their pasts but really feel in terms of selected abstractions, and if God feels the world in a like manner (as he would have to in order to be consistent with our first principles), then he will not save all values.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

In order to avail himself of Heidegger «s «existentials» he has taken a short cut, without having made the long detour of the question of being without which these existentials — being in - the - world, fallenness, care, being - toward - death, and so on — are nothing more than abstractions of lived experience, of a formalized existenziell.

The Internet is an abstraction to the world that we inhabit; yet it is also intimately tied to our world as a technology having a shaping force on the world.

This is what Whitehead speaks of as its «relational essence» — see his chapter on «Abstraction» in Science and the Modern World.

Whitehead experiments for a while with deliberations about the various theories of the world with regard to the degree to which they abstract from the world, and about adjusting a sequence of more or less abstract perspectives on the world, oriented at the level of abstraction attainable in the mathematized natural sciences.

Even if it made sense to speak, as Whitehead does, of a «world» as the «relative actual world» of a unique event — then how do such «worlds» stand in relation to that real level of abstraction (cf. 2.4) on which actual worlds and actual experiences interact and interpenetrate one another, the level which Whitehead sometimes defines as «nature»?

Neither his relational conception of space, which is basic for understanding his concept of extensive abstraction and which gave his theory of relativity its unique character, nor the problem of the bifurcation of nature, with its differentiation between the materialistic and personalistic outlook on the world, seem to be clearly in Whitehead's mind at this time.

The word author stems from authority, automatically you assume a position by design or abstraction that you should be taken seriously.Stand and deliver show your worth on paper not Just word count, readership is king and platform the altar, minister your product with conviction and the World may become your choir.

Neal writes: «Taking its title from Plato's dialogue on the soul's immortality, the exhibit «presents the practice of abstraction as a vehicle for the exploration of a world that exists apart from the physical one we inhabit.»

It is through Courbet, the specific artist, the Harmonian demiurge, that all the figures partake of the life of this pictorial world, and all are related to his direct experience; they are not traditional, juiceless abstractions like Truth or Immortality, nor are they generalized platitudes like the Spirit of Electricity or the Nike of the Telegraph; it is, on the contrary, their concreteness which gives them credibility and conviction as tropes in a «real allegory,» as Courbet subtitled the work, and which, in addition, ties them indissolubly to a particular moment in history.

FANTASTICAL WORLDS: From majestic depictions of imaginary realms to inventive works of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, we seek works that put a fantastical spin on the world around us.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

But geometric abstraction, with its play on modular units and grids, has proved to have vital relevance to the modern world and its accelerated programme of industrialisation and electrification.

Guys like John Ruskin, who celebrated the Pre-Raphaelites and hated on James McNeill Whistler in 1840s - 70s England, or Clement Greenberg, who crusaded for abstraction in 1940s - 70s New York, found a way to side - step some of that difficulty: they built up their own value system and moved through the world more or less championing what fit the system and rejecting what didn't.

Orphism was similar to cubism in its abstraction but was based on the real world and used bright colours and repeating patterns similar in some aspects to Russian folk art.

While drawing on the language of 20th century abstraction, White's pattern paintings temper that language's impulse towards epic, auratic significance, and emphasize, rather, the endless adjustments that are made when abstract forms encounter the world of the everyday.

Here is a brief description of her process when building works on paper or panel:» Through abstraction I reveal a world, not unlike my everyday life: rigorous and controlled but with room for spontaneity, irony and consciousness.

In response to the art fair experience, Powhida has fabricated pieces he considers emblematic of art world tropes that are seen over and over again on the international art fair circuit: Post-minimalist sculptures, large - scale decorative abstractions, shiny object sculptures, ceramics in vitrines, celebrity paintings, etc..

As much as these works may withdraw into «comic abstraction,» they also speculate on and engage another world, a posthuman future evolving and devolving into forms not so different from our own.

``... Werfel's new abstractions may have abandoned the window on the world for subjectivity and improvisation, but a feeling of landscape lingers in her «organic» palette and the forms evoked by her linear accents.»

'» At a time when abstraction remained on the fringes of the art world, the group aimed to «foster public appreciation of [abstract] painting and sculpture,» and grant «each artist an opportunity for developing his own work by becoming familiar with the efforts of others.»

Summing up the ambiguous position of Jane Frank's work on canvas with respect to both landscape art and pure abstraction, a reviewer for The Art Gallery magazine wrote of her 1971 solo show at London's Alwin Gallery: «Her richly textured canvases evoke a world of crags and forests, rivers and plains, in terms which are entirely non-representational.»

The artist mastered this technique, developing a panoply of variations on the theme that yielded lovely abstractions, but became alienated from the art world and retreated into seclusion until his death in 2008 and was more or less forgotten.

«Later, because he was interpreted as someone who paved the way for abstraction of the external world, [his still lifes and landscapes] were more easily related to his influence on Cubism and early Modernism.

From now on, right down to echoes of the sublime in American landscape painting or Abstraction Expressionism, Western art will have to grapple with whether people or spirituality can ever feel at home in this world.

He has expanded the boundaries of what constitutes painting and abstraction itself, with paper — paper he has walked the world to find on posters, billboards, album covers, and maps.

While abstraction became popular in postwar society due to its ability to transcend national and regional narratives, including views on gender, women artists were still dismissed in the male - dominated world.

Though working on a diminutive scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele draws on rigorous observations of the real world to create fragmented images that waver between recognizable form and nonobjective abstraction.

A selection of works by Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat, Katherine Bernhardt, Tyson Reeder, Joe Bradley, Chris Martin, Sarah Braman and many others, sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas.

Beginning in Paris, and continuing in New York, Kelly developed a unique vocabulary of abstraction based on the observation of nature and the world around him.

Working from photographs, some sent by friends and acquaintances from around the world, Tal R is on the outside too: shut out by closed doors and frosted windows, which he paints with varying degrees of abstraction in dazzlingly seductive hues.

He respected Modernism and abstraction as early as 1911, but he had no interest in taking on the world.

The world, however, moved on, and although Denny became a much respected elder statesman for abstraction, and his cool geometric lithographs of the 1970s became popular in corporate offices, the thoughtful abstractionism he represented was swamped by the advent of Pop and conceptual art.

Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

Dark, cinematic and spatially resonant, the images make use of geometry and abstraction to shed light on unseen elements of the nocturnal world.

While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.

Pentagon By 1999, chaos theory became a profound influence on Kidner's work and geometric abstraction in the form of Penrose pentagons reprinted on paper became a critical tool as a metaphor for ordering the chaos in the world.

While the 1990s seem to focus on twisting the various generalities and histories of painting and abstraction, the 2000s see Owens reaching into her own world and the world around her.

Shapeshifter is also an abstraction, this time of the marks left on or by used sandpaper sheets, collected from building sites around the world, representing both destruction and construction, human labour and mechanical erasure.

Russeth reports that Baer spoke on her decision to leave the New York art world, her lesser known (in America) figurative paintings, her experience as a female artist, and her move away from minimal abstraction.

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Over a series of events Melia explores how changes in a virtually - inclined world impact on our bodies and the places we live; reflecting on the relationship between physical and social movement, the abstraction of self and the shifting nature of representation.

In these increasingly direct works, he utilizes abstraction to break photography's semantic hold on the way we construct an image of the world.