engaged

Examples of engaged in the following topics:

• Museums and Private Collections

  • Museums and private collections are engaged in both the collection and display of works of art.
  • A museum does not sell works of art, but essentially holds them in public trust, and engages in varying levels of education and conservation practices.
  • Museums and private collections are both engaged in the collection and display of works of art.

• Implied Line

  • Implied lines are suggested lines that give works of art a sense of motion, and keep the viewer engaged in a composition.
  • 'Implied lines' give works of art a sense of motion, and keep the viewer engaged in a composition.

• Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

  • On both levels, an engaged column stood between each pair of arches.
  • Full-length sculptures of men, possibly senators or other significant historico-political figures, stood under each arch on the second level and lined the roof above each engaged Ionic column.
  • The top band is also pierced by a number of small windows, between which are engaged Composite pilasters.
  • However, despite this illusion the engaged columns and pilasters were merely decorative.
  • The arch follows typical standard forms for a triumphal arch, with an honorific inscription in the attic, winged Victories in the spandrels, engaged columns, and more sculpture which is now lost.

• The Neopalatial Period

  • Images of the bull are often accompanied one or more additional human figures, some of whom often appear to be engaged with the bull by leaping over its back.

• Neue Sachlichkeit

  • Rather than some goal of philosophical objectivity, it was meant to imply a turn towards practical engagement with the world—an all-business attitude, understood by Germans as intrinsically American" (Dennis Crockett, German Post-Expressionism: The Art of the Great Disorder, 1918-1984).
  • As these artists rejected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism.

• Philosophy and Science

  • The leading philosophers of the 18th century were engaged in the movement, and the ideas were found in most countries, though with specific local variations.
  • Great thinkers such as John Locke, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Diderot, Kant, and Goethe were engaged in the discourse of the movement.

• Humanism

  • The movement developed in response to the medieval scholastic conventions in education at the time, which emphasized practical, pre-professional, and scientific studies engaged in solely for job preparation, and typically by men alone.
  • Humanists reacted against this utilitarian approach, seeking to create a citizenry who were able to speak and write with eloquence and thus able to engage the civic life of their communities.

• Process Art

  • Process art and environmental art are directly related: process artists engage the primacy of organic systems, using perishable, insubstantial, and transitory materials such as dead rabbits, steam, fat, ice, cereal, sawdust, and grass.

• Rome and the Papal States

  • The Popes engaged artists like Michelangelo, Perugino, Raphael, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Botticelli, and Cosimo Rosselli.

• European Postwar Expressionism

  • During this time period, there were also European artists who engaged more fully in abstraction, particularly those associated with the French painting movements Tachisme (from the French word tache, meaning stain) and Art Informel.