Urban mapping
Define context
Private view
Truth is the stuff of our own mental construction. Meanwhile, the unresolved nature of existence is a large component of its authority.
“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling – in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.” – Kasimir Malevich
Intense engagement
Succinct articulation
Artistic insight
Rationality is the disposition of acting by reason. But is rationality a human imposition on reality, or something actually present in an independent existence? In either case, the external world must inform its human expression.
“All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one.” – Friedrich Schlegel
Definitely determined
According to conditions
Described nature
Leading to adaptation, future anticipation depends on comprehending uniformity. Cognitive processes trace homogeneity by designating apparently equivalent phenomena in the same classification. Similarities naturally produce purposive action.
“On the one hand they make the phenomena of the world classifiable and thereby comprehensible; and on the other hand they make possible the development of an organ of comprehension called reason.” – Paul Carus
Modernist assumptions
Spiritual implications
Stylistic differences
To arrive at meaningful descriptions we must move away from exactitude. Not only are all visual images abstractions, but in alliance the rigorous sciences also are fabricated upon inexact representations.
“The work of art, as an autonomous organism, stands beside nature on equal terms and, in its deepest and innermost essence, devoid of any connection with it, in so far as by nature is understood the visible surface of things.” – Wilhelm Worringer
Inscription information
Visible impression
Stain trace
Abstract and concrete are classifications that indicate whether an expression describes an object with a physical denotation or one with no physical referents. These translated asphalt markings dwell in a middle ground, helping to formulate generalized ideas.
“The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.” – Willard Van Orman Quine
Formal invention
Reflective gesture
Significant content
In a tour of an industrial printing plant, random ink spillage is here visually organized into an abstract expression. Found ancillaries derive their art identity from the designation divulged by the artist.
“We favor the simple expression of the complex thought.” – Barnett Newman
Directed at
States of affairs
Immanent objectivity
Conscious human beings are not merely affected by environmental conditions, but are also conscious of things as things: physical objects and events, selves and other persons, and abstract thoughts and propositions. Establishing a relationship to existence, most of the events that comprise mental life have this distinguishing attribute of being “of” or “about” something.
“Intentionality is what characterizes consciousness in the pregnant sense and which, at the same time, justifies designating the whole stream of mental processes as the stream of consciousness and as the unity of one consciousness.” – Edmund Husserl