Browsing: Individuality

A seated woman in a vivid red patterned jacket is surrounded by flowers, decorative motifs, and flattened color fields in a mature Matisse portrait of modern subjectivity.

The universal, particular, and individual form a dialectical unity in which the concept differentiates itself, becomes determinate, and returns to itself concretely.

A reclining nude meets the viewer with a direct yet inward gaze, combining elongated form, warm flesh tones, dark space, and modernist simplicity.

Charles Courtney Curran places four women upon a mountain summit, using height, open sky, pastel color, and strong light to explore female subjectivity, bodily freedom, and the modern relationship between woman and nature.

Curran’s The Top of the World combines a solitary female figure, rocky summit, flowing white dress, broad sky, and luminous atmosphere to explore modern freedom, individuality, and the relation between woman and nature.

A historical portrait or manuscript representation accompanying an article on Duns Scotus. The image relates to his concepts of haecceitas, or thisness, the ontological reality of singular beings, the univocity of being, direct knowledge of individuals, and the freedom of the will.