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Heraclitean

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Her·a·cli·tus  (hr-klts) fl. 500 b.c.
Early Greek philosopher who maintained that strife and change are the natural conditions of the universe.
Hera·clite·an (-t-n) adj.
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Heraclitean
adj → heraklitisch
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Water figures throughout As a Boat: a 16mm film entitled We both step and do not step in the same rivers, with Heraclitean bench (2008) is projected against a wall, within an installation of thorny branches, while the adjacent room offers Dutch visitors a glass of British Columbia spring water drawn from a wooden keg in For a spring abrim with songs of love is constantly reborn (2008).
Geoffrey Farmer: Forgetting Air/ Gareth Moore: As a Wild Boar Passes ... by Brown, Nicholas / C: International Contemporary Art
Although this emphasis on flux would seem to put him in the Heraclitean camp, I believe a more apt modem comparison is with Bergson, who argued that the inner, metaphysical, absolute reality-is not Being but becoming, flowing, time, and change that can be known only intuitively.
Eric Voegelin on the incarnate Christ by Henry, Michael / Modern Age
Time flows like water does back in the ocean back into Eternity," he wrote in the poem on paper that hung as an introduction to the paintings, which themselves flow like the water of eternal life--water with a strong, relentless current, a deep expressive undertow, a painterly Heraclitean water that is never the same but nonetheless flows with sure-footed fastness over the paper.
Hans Hofmann: AMERINGER YOHE FINE ART by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
 
 
 
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