Humanistic themes and techniques were woven deeply into the development of Italian Renaissance art; conversely, the general theme of "art" was prominent in humanistic discourse.
Yet middlebrow remains a useful term, and an expanding category in today's art world, a handy handle for art that is nonthreatening, accessible and earnest and that deals with time-honored humanistic themes.
That's the story of the film, one that Solondz approaches both somberly and playfully, in an effort to get at supreme humanistic themes of love, art, and death — and Solondz gets at them with a sense of style, insight, terror, self-excoriation, scorn, and empathy, creating a film that wouldn't be unworthy to share a space on the shelf somewhere near Bresson's great work.
Whereas his father, Don Isaac, could still adapt humanistic themes to his Hebrew writings, which were still primarily in conversation with medieval thought,[13] increasingly in Judah's generation the only way to engage in a full-scale examination of the universal tendencies associated with Humanism was to write in the vernacular.
Lyrically, they also explore new, more humanistic themes for Hendrix.
First, he alledged, modern artists (particularly those of the sort endorsed by cultural establishment) have abandoned the great humanistic themes of Western art in order to indulge in an all-pervasive irony.
There was a great divide over whether to highlight humanist themes by showing the inhumane and immoral acts of the communists in order to criticize communism, or depict humanistic communists in order to juxtapose the superiority of humanism over communism.
It's a much more humanistic kind of theme".
The hyperbole is given visual substance with an Antonioniesque critique of modern architecture; as humanistic counterpoint, Godard offers recurring themes from Beethoven string quartets and a snippet of his own handwritten diary declaring himself to be the last free man.
