The phrase "deep art" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to art that is thought-provoking, meaningful, and often has deeper layers of symbolism or messages. Example: The painting was not just aesthetically pleasing; it was a masterpiece of deep art that captured the complexities of human emotion and the struggles of society.
It is in this context of a new nation freed from apartheid that South Africa has become aware of its deep art history.
It does not take deep art analysis to read the portrait Grayson Perry has made of Chris Huhne: it is a vase with repeated motifs of the politician's face, his personalised number plate and a penis.
During deep art slumps in the early 1970s and early 1990s the Nahmads acquired art in bulk.
He succinctly shows how we have lost our sense of the sacred; how our notions of beauty and goodness get systematically confused in the ongoing noise of the global infotainment system, and how electronic media are gradually killing our ability to enjoy deep art.
Into this arena strides, gently but with great passion and purpose, the painter Bobbie Moline-Kramer, in whose studios the push and pull of hyperrealism, mixed media experimentation, gestural abstraction, personal narrative, and deep art-historical crate-digging has been underway for decades.
Add to that several high-profile private collections, the meteoric rise of local artists and a rush of new galleries to showcase them, and Miami has matured from a fleeting, skin-deep art showcase into an unlikely cultural oasis.
This immersion inspired his deeper art.
I definitely want to take flexing into the deeper arts; into the operas, into the ballet schools, everywhere.
It will be noted, however, that throughout Herder's aesthetics the notion of play has hardly figured at all; it has been mentioned only in connection with the superficial art of painting rather than with the deeper arts of sculpture, poetry, and even music.
To some, those ovations merely prove how deep the art has sunk.
Call it the Brooklynization of the Hudson Valley, the steady hipness creep with its locavore cuisine, its Williamsburgian bars, its Gyrotonic exercise, feng shui consultants and deep clay art therapy and, most of all, its recent arrivals from New York City.
