Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which, in Chinese, means both “fat” and “happiness,” derived from the Chinese proverb, “A fat man is a happy man.” In this series, he creates plump, slightly abstract figures in positions of vulnerability and intimacy, which give the viewer a comfortable sense of contentment and ease. One of these sculptures was modeled after his wife and baby son, an indescribably cute and smile-inducing image. His wife complained the sculpture portrayed...
...real life. “My friends and I made sex jokes all the time,” she says, “but it was never directed in a ‘let me do this to you’ kind of way. It was always very abstract. Playing online was the first time I made that sort of innuendo with a take-me-seriously attitude...
...soul,” (another example would be Freud’s “id,” “ego,” and “superego,”) can serve quite a useful purpose in treating psychopathology—for they provide an abstract and working, if crude and incomplete, model of what we cannot yet understand in any other fashion...
...theme is specific and political. Not many vague expressions of the inner soul occur here; all of these artists address the concrete issue of social injustice and spotlight the marginalized and the oppressed in lieu of the self. But the messages conveyed by the works, many of which are abstract or digitally altered, are not immediately apparent or easily delineated...
...eating popcorn and watching Must-See TV with a resident tutor these days is progress, and much personal interaction students have with their tutors and professors does not depend on abstract institutional calculations regarding undergraduate emotional health. It depends on how loudly people ask for what they want. “Most of you come to Harvard because you have some idealistic notion of what Harvard should be. It needs to be worth all the sacrifices that you and your parents make,” Gomes says. “You, today’s generation, push the questions about...