Abstraction

de Monfried, who was also an art colletion enthusiast. The letters were often depicted as being comprised mainly of debates about what is and is not considered art, and one must go about presenting their work as an artist. Feeling and Thought, Abstraction, and Shadows are mainly about the very nature of painting, how one creates a painting, how one paints correctly, and how one forms an educated critique about the painting, thus involving the reader in the entire life of the painting. Feeling…

This confusion was created by the Good Angel and the Bad Angel in the play. The appearance of the Good Angel and the Bad Angel is a holdover from the earlier morality plays. The medieval plays often use abstractions as main characters. The appearance of these allegorical abstractions functions to externalize the internal conflict that Faustus is undergoing; they symbolize the two forces struggling for the soul of Faustus. Throughout the play, these angels appear at the moments when Faustus…

The painting is composed using all of the elements of art, with special attention to line, color, and texture. Abstraction art is supposed to be about the act of painting itself, with a nonobjective, universal concept. However, the way that this painting is composed it resembles a human being, most specifically a skeleton. I can clearly see a skull, with a lines shaped…

Wiesel once said, “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with it’s own secrets, with it’s own treasures, with it’s own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph”. In the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, the Lacks family is viewed as an abstraction both by the scientific community, and the media; however, Rebecca Skloot did not view them as an abstraction, and she made it her duty to discover the…

Absurdity is key to this exhibition and bringing some humour or levity to minimalist art which otherwise is too often seen as confrontational, anti-humanist, emotionless and intellectually cold. Minimalism may hide its humour behind imposing machine-made structures or recontextualized ready made industrialized forms, but curator John Hampton attempts to show a lighter side of minimalism, he attempts to show us that it is inherently absurd that we take it so seriously. Upon entering the space,…

Many paintings that come further after previously stated ‘Banksia Cobs’, truly presents Preston’s change in themes ideas and concepts through the styles and techniques she has elected to use. A set of paintings all incorporating banksia’s in them, including ‘Rose and Banksia’ (1936), ‘Banksia’ (1938), and ‘The Brown Pot’ (1940), all present the drastic changes in the styles, techniques, elements, and principles Preston uses. In ‘Rose and Banksia’ it features exactly what would have been depicted…

This is evident in the sheer fact that Berkeley devoted his introduction of Principles to the refutation of the doctrine of abstraction. However this raises the question: Why did Berkeley feel so strongly? Why does Berkeley feel the need to reject abstraction? The answer to these questions is two-fold. First and foremost, Berkeley sees Locke’s doctrine of abstraction as a detractor from the overall purpose of his philosophical work. “Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and…

theory of abstraction so that universals can be observed and cognitive analyses can be used to identify and understand forms. Smith’s article is written for a more academic audience with certain previous knowledge. One must first know that perspectiva is about Platonic metaphysical discussions. Smith first outlines the theory of abstraction and how Aristotle influenced its evolvement throughout time. The second part of the article is Smith giving the physical perspective views of abstraction.…

The ability to be able to distinguish between what is real and what is an abstraction is essential to the understanding of the world. Within in Plato’s The Republic, the allegory of the cave shows the process of learning what is real and its importance within a just society. Plato, within the allegory of the cave, utilizes the prison in opposition with the upper world to further expound upon the theory of forms and ultimately further justify the Philosopher as the ideal ruler. Plato’s analogy…

institutions, then not everyone in the world can show patriotism because not all countries are built on free republican institutions. Since not everyone in the world could be patriotic, that means that it cannot be a principle and it has to be an abstraction. It is simply an idea for the love of free republican…