Abstraction

The excerpt which meets the criteria of being rhetorically effective was written by the author of the best-selling 2000 book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putman. Ethos has been established early on in the text as the speaker is a Harvard professor who also uses numerous sources to support his argument. Putman has written this passage in order to discuss the nature of television in American life and how it affects our relationship with our community.…

which is the material world.There is no spiritual, mysterious element at play. The real driving force comes from the material conditions which affect the evolution of men and the evolution of society and its ideas. So there is no conception of the abstraction of ideas or the principle of dualism in materialism.The another feature of materialism is that its premises are real. Material premises are parallel to a scientific theory and materialism stresses that the world is knowable. It talks about…

Rodchenko brought with him abstraction conventions, line as a structural element and the innovation of art to having a practical application in everyday life. Starting in 1910 with the School of Arts in Kazan, Rodchenko first emerged with painting (Karginov 9). In terms of influences, Rodchenko had a diversity of movements, people and personalities alike. It was movements such as Art Nouveau and Futurism - from Russian avant-garde - that helped start his work in abstraction (Karginov 11-12). It…

composition that is neither specifically figurative nor purely abstract. Two later works by Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, 1930 (Fig. 52) and Interior with the Artists Daughter, 1935-6 (Fig. 53), suggest the artist’s ongoing interest in decorative design and abstraction. Both works depict Bell’s living space: her London studio at Fitzroy Street and her country home in Sussex. In Interior with the Artist’s Daughter, the young woman is seen sitting in an armchair at the artist’s studio in Charleston,…

was closely intertwined with everyday culture that had a dynamic, social and cultural dimensions. Add to this the complex character of Henry Van de Velde and we get an understanding of the multifaceted relation of ornament not only to the art of abstraction but also to cultural reform in…

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky: Biography Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, the Russian empire on 16 December 1866. He is one of the first artist to create an abstract piece. During his youth (1866-1896), The Metamorphosis: Kandinsky graduated from grekov Odessa art school. Before he focused on art, he was studying law and economics in the University of Moscow, which he later gave up at the age of 30. Kandinsky’s enthusiasm in colour…

‘The notion of the sublime did not, however, explicitly engage Rothko states Anna Chave in her book Mark Rothko; subjects in abstraction (Chave, 1989, p. 17). Rothko distrusted high-flown approaches to his paintings and preferred to talk about his art work in his own terms of the emotions. Rothko was interested in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically the Birth of tragedy. Mark Rothko cites Nietzsche to provide a way to describe his own sense of modern tragedy as he felt that his…

It's important because it's an abyss between the abstraction and the site; a kind of oblivion. You could go there on a highway, but a highway to the site is really an abstraction because you don't really have contact with the earth. A trail is more of a physical thing. These are all variables, indeterminate elements which will attempt to determine the route from…

different aspect in its writing style that makes it develop its own significance and a desire to be read to a diverse audience. Because of this, Kate Bernheimer states that in order for a fairy tale to be created, it must have the elements of flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, normalized magic. In each fairy tale, they must obtain at least one or more of these elements to captivate the reader to the story. For a story to have the element of flatness, the characters were developed in the…

much like the Bedouin of the Middle East, for whom sheltering and defending strangers is not just a nice thing to do but a spiritual imperative” (Rusesabagina 12). “A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community…