Sentences with phrase «acts as a canvas»

Sensory mediums can act as a canvas for a child's imagination.

Hidary says, «The abstract nature of these musical compositions and patterns act as a canvas for the listener to lay their personal details on to.

I traced the frame insert onto poster board, then cut it out to act as the canvas.

Lupita Nyong» o: Not only was the periwinkle hue of the blouse a radiant offering, the drama of the pouf sleeves added a layer of girly romance — to which the black skirt merely acted as the canvas to celebrate it.

The white clothing piece has been in the spotlight a bit extra the past seasons, acting as a canvas for the trend of statementtexts displayed on clothes.

black - pained gallery walls and white window frames act as a canvas for the bike «drawings» etched onto the interior surroundings as though the faux - vehicle has been ridden on the walls.

Using her own body as both the subject and material of her work, Abromović created the piece Rhythm 0 in which her body acted as a canvas — a passive surface for whatever her audience decided to do to it.

Not exact matches

The banana sweetens everything, and the yogurt acts as the perfect canvas for this smoothie.

Loose Mineral Foundation - Nurture (3g): Multi-tasking, this lightweight formula acts as a concealer, foundation and powder all in one, and is formulated with pure ingredients to help give your complexion a picture perfect canvas every time.

The Grey Bag For Love by Beulah London is a print canvas tote that delivers instant style and can be used to carry your essentials while acting as the perfect shopping companion.

When it comes to picking the style for your indoor / outdoor rug, the design you choose should act like a canvas and an anchor to bring all the visual elements, such as the seats and table, together.

I just love how an outfit like this acts as a blank canvas and lets your accessories shine.

The wedding takes place in East Sussex at the couple's family church with a wonderfully relaxed and chilled out reception at The Sussex Barn in Hellingly a stunning venue which acted as the perfect blank canvas they were looking for.

The crop flare acts as a bit of a blank canvas to showcase your other items.

Crisp white tablecloths act like the perfect canvas onto which marvellous modern Mediterranean fare is presented, a joy on the eyes as well as taste buds!

That's what Far Cry 5 is all about — fluid and dynamic engagements that act as different canvases and let you use the game's variety of tools to finish the picture.

South Park LGTDP allows users to essentially make their own levels with most levels acting as a blank canvas.

I believe that he attempted to recover some of these canvases, and to my certain knowledge, one moonlit night, would have stolen back a portrait of Mrs Euphemia Urquart of Woodside Terrace, Glasgow, had not he been interrupted in the act of forcing a water - closet window by the Urquarts» butler, who (apparently cut short in solitary labours of his own) had been sitting in the dark; and who - despite the handicap of having his trousers at his ankles - grasped the intruder's shoulders as they emerged beneath the sash.

As such, it is thinner and more agile, and features a 4K resolution 50.5 - inch multi-touch display acting as a digital canvas integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Whiteboard, Office 365, Windows 10 and the clouAs such, it is thinner and more agile, and features a 4K resolution 50.5 - inch multi-touch display acting as a digital canvas integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Whiteboard, Office 365, Windows 10 and the clouas a digital canvas integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Whiteboard, Office 365, Windows 10 and the cloud.

Inside, there's also plenty of space to lounge — the sunken living room features a large, crescent - shaped sofa, as well as white walls that act like a blank canvas for the space's colorful artwork and home accents.

Below, the master suite continues the «luxury under canvas» theme, with a four - poster queen bed bedecked with canvas and leather trim, a steamer trunk acting as a media cabinet for the flat - screen 40 - inch TV, a canvas seating area that conceals a spare bed, and canvas - backed directors chairs set before sliding doors delightfully opening onto the pool deck.

A-cero from Spain and PoD from Russia created these interiors using White furniture and natural wood producing spectacular spaces that act as a wonderful canvas for exquisite Asian art.

Below, the Master Suite continues the «luxury under canvas» theme, with a four - poster king bed bedecked with canvas and leather trim, a steamer trunk acting as a media cabinet for the flat - screen 40 - inch TV, a canvas seating area that conceals a spare bed, and canvas - backed directors chairs set before sliding doors delightfully opening onto the pool deck.

Perfectly suited to the dual - screen handheld device, the game will essentially mirror what was possible on the Wii U version — the 3DS touchscreen acts as your level - designing canvas, while the top screen is your play area, letting Mario jump through whatever dastardly creations you've put in front of him.

Joffe has described the absorbing, as well as the highly physical experience of the work's making, the thickly applied pastel accumulating with a luminous purity that is markedly different from the act of painting and the ways in which oil behaves on canvas or board.

«the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act - rather than as a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyse or «express» an object, actual or imagined.

Try to be selective in your first sketch, the idea is to just get a few key marks on the canvas to act as an anchor and guide your scale as you put in more detail.

When I first started doing the stain paintings, I left large areas of canvas unpainted, I think, because the canvas itself acted as forcefully and as positively as paint or line or color.

The flat plane of the field, with its painted boundaries can be seen as a metaphor for the canvas — and in this way the painting becomes self - reflexive and the act of painting itself the true subject of the work, thus demonstrating a clear tension between the image and its reference point.

Influenced by Marxist theory and French existentialism, Rosenberg conceives of a painting as an «arena,» in which the artist acts upon, wrestles, or otherwise engages with the canvas, in what ultimately amounts to an expressive record of a struggle.

These components are used to great effect in both Rejection Letter (acrylic with collage on paper mounted to canvas, 2009) and Untitled (With Your Best Interest at Heart)(framed acrylic on paper, 2009) in which the letters themselves adopt interestingly complex configurations even as the act of «reading» the work becomes a singularly entertaining part of the process.

A tall, sickly beige canvas, which, perpendicular to the three portraits, acts as an invisible barrier as it looks down across the gaze of each portrait.

Beale supported her family through her work as an artist, and her husband Charles acted as her studio assistant, preparing her canvases and paints, purchasing supplies and managing her accounts.

From New York City, Liam Everett makes small and medium size paintings that explore the disparate imagery that appears to him as he's in the act of working the oil paint into the canvas.

From the lyric, dark grisaille of Gorky's inner landscapes it grew to epic stature: In 1952 art critic Harold Rosenberg observed that «at a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act, rather than as a space in which to... «express» an object, actual or imagined.

This innovation prompted the art critic Harold Rosenberg to observe that «at a certain moment, the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act... what was to go onto the canvas was not a picture, but an event.»

Approximately half of the canvases on view employ a typographical element, acting as a visual counterforce to their abstraction.

Applied directly to the canvas, the tape acts as a powerful formal device; more importantly, though, because of its original function as a storage device, it adds layers of hidden meaning to the paintings.

Fox paints hybrid portraits — humanoid monsters and existential figures — often posed behind a canvas, as though in the act of their own creation.

In the 1952 essay, «The American Action Painters,» Rosenberg described Abstract Expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning as creating «not a picture but an event,» using the canvas as «an arena in which to act.»

As a poignant counterpoint to the methodical abuse by Allied Powers, Siatous does not ignore or glamorize any aspect of its sordid history and grounds each canvas with a historically significant date and title in what he calls «a political act,» celebrating a much longed for life in his hometown of Diego Garcia and a hopeful vision for the future.

He had noticed, however, that «at a certain moment in time, the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than a space in which to reproduce, re-design, or «express» an object.»

This is to contrast the work with other similar arguable acts of Instagram - to - canvas appropriation, specifically, this new thing Richard Prince is doing with canvas prints of art girls» from Instagram, as recontextualization is fairly evident, though excitingly debatable, at least to me.

His drawings on paper are affixed to stretched canvas that acts as a container for the bird - monsters, amphibians and ghostly faces that crash against its margins.

Busier and more complex than his canvases, they act partly as their foil.

When referring to ideas, it implies that as a painter, I am not facing my canvas as a neutral being but as an acting being who is investing into the act of painting.

The act of painting is just as important to her as the outcome that appears on the canvas.

Taking painting beyond the bounds of the canvas and acting as both the creator and the performer of her art, she has created a hybrid form of performance and photography, with her body in a prominent role.

For her first solo exhibition at Athr, artist Dana Awartani shows three new projects intertwined by their exploration of ritual as gestures within which geometric and organic forms sit at the centre of a set of performed sequences acted out on paper and canvas.

CA: The way you compare painting and dance makes me think of course of the often - quoted description of the Abstract Expressionists by Harold Rosenberg, «At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or «express» an object, actual or imagined.