In fact, he believes an artist would do very well solely to concentrate on the scenes, events, struggles and joys of the masses in order to unfold the multifarious Idea of humanity in painting, sculpture or poetry.
At a more general level I will show how modern medicine developed as an attempt to adjust to and engage with the multifarious collections of ideas and items—sometimes co-opting them, sometimes realigning them in new modes of production.
Just as individual trees and individual flowers are the multifarious expressions of the Platonic Ideas of tree and flower, each and every one of our individual actions is the spatio-temporal manifestation of our respective innate or intelligible character.
"Boston Black," the brainchild of Joanne Jones-Rizzi, the museum's director of community programs and partnerships, playfully presents the idea that blackness is multifarious: many voices, many faces, many hairdos.
Mr. Izzard, whose theme is nothing less than civilization and its multifarious contents, traffics in delirious, dizzying circles of ideas and images.
I suppose I like the idea of them experiencing such a vast, multifarious, potentially life-changing phenomenon as free agents, able to do whatever brilliant, ridiculous, possibly unwise things they choose.
But another is the tour de force that the show's curators have brought off by putting multifarious works — paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos, installations — in orbit around a primordial idea: home, where you hang your hat, if you have one, and where the heart is or, for some grim reason, fails to be.
With his advanced production techniques and pioneering fast-cut edits of the disparate and the unexpected, it was Jackson who triggered my nascent perceptual radar to the possibilities of juxtaposition, propelling me on an ongoing journey into the multifarious and mutable matrix that is collage: arguably the most important cultural idea of the last century.
As wildly multifarious as the show is, everything in it seems to pivot on the idea of pattern and design as a valiant but usually doomed attempt to impose some order and beauty on a random, chaotic world, as the Amish do in their meticulous quilt work.
