Sentences with phrase «about flatness»

Like, Greenberg's formalism is about flatness.

While everyone was flexing their heads about flatness, surface, and edge, Arnoldi was making paintings out of tree branches.

Throughout the exhibition, I kept thinking about flatness — how even three - dimensional screwheads can look planar when added atop plexi.

Although the works utilize architecture, «they are not about flatness as a starting point,» according to the artist; rather, they are «the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.»

In Svobodová's paintings, folds made during a concentrated period of time build the infrastructure of the final image and create a narrative of space that never stops suggesting something intrinsic about flatness.

In Meyer Vaisman's paintings the volumetric stacking of canvases or layering of compositional elements, and the ersatz texturing of surfaces - a photomechanical imprinting of a magnified reproduction of canvas weave borrowed from a commercial Letratone ¨ pattern sheet - parody the modernist ethos about flatness and truth to materials.

It's beautiful how that part of Texas puts the lie to most assumptions about the flatness of the state.

Not exact matches

Using these value - added data, Flatness and Rasmussen calculated that the U.S. share of automobile imports — in other words, the amount of American made parts in cars and trucks imported from Canada and Mexico — dropped to about 12 per cent in 2011 from about 19 per cent in 1995.

From this base, he can move to a formal definition of the projective properties of straightness and flatness in the derivations of PR IV, 3, apply those notions to the doctrine of strains (PR IV, 4), demonstrating that the shrinking of a set of linear relations into the microcosm of a strain seat does not distort those relations, and hence that the measurement of a strain locus in the presentational immediacy of the measurer says something objective about the contemporaneous world (PR IV, 5).

But what ultimately surprised me about the movie, despite its dramatic flatness, was how disquieting the ending was.

It refers to the fact that when we make a statement like «I think the Earth is flat,» we can be wrong about Earth's flatness, but we can not be wrong about the «I,» the subjective self that is making the assertion.

Defining Good Writing (Possibly Sententious) Cheryl Klein is «rolling our eyes at the flatness of the prose, characters, and plot construction,» which has prompted her to post about «and yet we just keep reading on.»

With his 1964 «What you see is what you see» — eerily contemporary with Marshall McLuhan's own tautological formula about the medium being the message — Stella brings Greenberg's literal flatness to a metaphorical level: Painting is the message and metaphorical flatness is now achieved in painting by denying it any depth of content.

This rotation makes the flatness explicit because you can no longer suspend your disbelief about what is on the other side of the forms in the picture; there's no backside of the hand, far side of the tree, nor bulk to the boulder.

But that flatness yields a stillness that calls forth something vital about the sitters.

While classic Ab - Ex painters strived to obtain flatness in their work, Szinyova's paintings are all about the process; the steps taken to create depth in layers of paint.

That is an entirely bogus claim that may appeal to the literary minded, but has no basis in the reality of painting.so, whatever may be said about the Abstract Expressionists, at least they had the guts to go all out for an abstraction which leaves naturalistic suggestions behind, and uninhibitedly embraces the full potential of painting to create space out of its» fulgent or fuliginous flatness».

They prefigure Blinky Palermo's Stoffbilder paintings, begun in Germany in 1966, and raise questions about the assumptions of painting that would come to the fore in the following decade in the West: the relationship between support, frame, and picture plan; the notion of surface flatness; the implication of readymade, found, or commercial form; and the belief of artist as creator.

I answered all the semantic bollocks about «flatness» way back in 1974 in «Principle, Appearance, Style», Studio International, June.

I debate even calling them characters actually because their flatness is about an ubiquity of the body itself in our landscape and psychic consciousness.»

While traditional super PACs produce commercials that approach pancake - level flatness, wrapping political campaigns up in subtle messaging risks it being dismissed by those who aren't versed in, or don't care about, the conceptual language of the art world (see: a large portion of the American public.)

Flatness may have run it's course, but have we been preoccupied with Rembrandt's nose, what about all that glazing in the windows on the world.

The works emphasize the flatness of the canvas or paper because that is what a painting is literally about.

Mick Peter solo exhibition Director Mary Doyle gives an introduction talk about artist Mick Peter's work, who transforms imagery derived from fiction, illustration and graphic design into playful installations, resembling quick hand drawn sketches which seem to have been cut from the flatness of the paper and dragged into three - dimensional space.

Even with the new boosted and saturated settings switched on, there's still a general flatness to the display that's hard to miss when compared to iPhone X. And little things I overlooked about the Note 8 — particularly the smooth feel of gesture animations thanks to iPhone X's 120Hz touch sample rate — became glaringly and distractingly obvious.

There is something about the global connectedness that is creating more wealth at the top, flatness everywhere else and much of the resentment stems from people being concerned that people that aren't in software / startups are going to be priced out of a city they love.