And possibly its enduring appeal may rest on its physical solidity and permanence, the very reverse of rootlessness.
He was an amazingly gifted technician, capable of defining the human face in passages of seemingly quick, vivacious brush strokes that convey both physical solidity and expressive fluidity.
In the film, it had been absolutely necessary to project an impression of his physical solidity, which Kiarostami had done by keeping the camera closely trained on his broad shoulders and strong torso as he drove through the hills outside Tehran.
Mr. Uglow always played the physical solidity of his efforts against their optical radiance, thickening his stretcher bars so that his paintings protruded farther from the wall, hanging his works close to the ground or even simply leaning them, set on tiny blocks, against a wall.
The jittering motions show you what can be achieved by using a physical form, the solidity of which is difficult to recreate digitally, making objects appear to lack substance.
The works turn out, however, to be closeup, hyperrealistic renderings of actual bruises suddenly, the aforementioned abstract sublime, coined in 1961 by the curator Robert Rosenblum to describe the emotional effects of Expressionism, gives way to the solidity of physical pain.
There is extensive experimental evidence that infants can predict the outcome of events based on physical concepts such as gravity, solidity, object permanence and conservation of shape and number, at an early stage of development, although there is also evidence that this capacity develops through time and experience.
Already an orthodoxy and inevitability have shaped around it: if you take what was traditionally red, add a bolt of blue in the form of defensive nationalism, then of course you get purple – it has the solidity of a physical law.
Leibniz's radical suggestion would, in effect, turn the Cartesian understanding of matter on its head: whereas, for example, Descartes attempted to explain solidity in terms of physical extension,[14] Leibniz proposes to explain physical extension in terms of solidity — a body isn't solid because it is extended, it is extended because it has the ability to exclude other bodies!
There was something more than physical beauty that attracted them: a solidity, a sympathy and a spine.
But he was a great describer of the physical world in general, fascinated by the solidity and weight of almost everything, and by the meaning of solidity itself.
