Everyone agreed that there was an urgent need for a digital archive to hold the kind of primary matter that all art history is built on.
This process, already accelerated in the Renaissance, goes still faster in our time, and is not just the primary dynamic of our visual experience but also the primary matter of our art.
Hylomorphism, (from Greek hylē, "matter"; morphē, "form"), in philosophy, metaphysical view according to which every natural body consists of two intrinsic principles, one potential, namely, primary matter, and one actual, namely, substantial form.
Under normal conditions, primary matter flows from the poles of a vortex into its center, i.e., the sun, which is itself comprised of primary matter.
Yet this common substratum cannot be featureless, formless primary matter, as the Aristotelians propose.
The idea here again sounds Aristotelian: a substance has a certain essentially active component, the soul or substantial form or first entelechy, and a passive component, primary matter.
Both men used the American upper crust as their primary subject matter.
But to opponents of the group, the primary subject matter is inappropriate for a school organization.
Personally, I've always thought our primary subject matter was masculinity: what it means to be a man, what we can and can't say.
Since ancient times, animals and birds have provided the primary subject matter of a painting or have been included in a design for their symbolic importance.
In fact, girls appear to be the album's primary subject matter, as the band collectively try to make sense of a relationship that's going off the rails.
