Sentences with phrase «arrangement of shapes»

It's all abstraction really, an arrangement of shapes and colors on the rectangle.

The acrylic painting comprises a sophisticated arrangement of shapes: circles,...

For several years Louise had had the idea that spacemen were attracted to certain combinations of letters of the alphabet and certain arrangements of shapes and shiny objects, and this made her difficult to reason with at times.

After so much practice with this design - based approach creating patterns of value, dynamic arrangements of shape and interesting compositions, I now feel I've internalized these principles.

In Hue (s) pace Ramsay become the conduit for the arrangement of shape and the placement of color, thus making time visible in her paintings.

One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothko's abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewers» communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

His «ceiling» over new redwood decking is a complex arrangement of shaped canvases playing off the old brick and I - beams of the museum's original factory structure.

The present work may be seen as a formal exercise in the elaborate arrangement of shape, color and texture.

Once I develop the system for the specific project and determine the calculations, what remains is a form of meditation: I become the conduit for the arrangement of shape and the placement of color.»

Mark Rothkoâ $ ™ s search to express profound emotion through painting culminated in his now - signature compositions of richly colored squares filling large canvases, evoking what he referred to as â $ the sublime.â $ One of the pioneers of Color Field Painting, Rothkoâ $ ™ s abstract arrangements of shapes, ranging from the slightly surreal biomorphic ones in his early works to the dark squares and rectangles in later years, are intended to evoke the metaphysical through viewersâ $ ™ communion with the canvas in a controlled setting.

Six monochromatic panels are piled above each other, building an ascending arrangement of shaped canvases.

De Niro's bold, reductive arrangements of shapes and color, which describe lawns, buildings, and trees in broad, slashing strokes, provide a rich visual experience of the American landscape.

[x] Greater tension is present in Thomas's paintings of 1955 — 56, in which she appears to have given the canvas center gravitational properties, resulting in tense arrangements of shapes that collide or strive for steadiness and wholeness.

Not exact matches

Obviously, I had some ideas for arrangements and melodies in my head, but there's a certain level of trust to be there for me to give them free reign to bend and shape the song a little bit.

If we think this way about symmetry, careful analysis shows that, when marbles arrange themselves into the hexagonal pattern, just six of the infinite number of symmetries in the shape of the marbles are expressed or manifested in their final arrangement.

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

These trident - shaped exterior columns are set against a distracting architectural background consisting of a skewed diagonal arrangement of white steel beams bolted to one another and then pinned to the steel - mail grid to which the pavilion's exterior glass cladding is attached.

We know today, much more vividly than did our philosophical and theological predecessors, how important economic arrangements are in shaping the values, ideologies and cultures of various states.

It is the specific arrangement of nucleotides along the chain of DNA which determines what that gene will do; it is the specific shape in three dimensions of a protein molecule which determines what sort of enzyme activity it will exhibit, and there are many other examples.

More importantly, theological study must attend to those disciplines by which to assess the truth of old and new claims about how persons» identities and societies» power arrangements are shaped and changed.

Worship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

In chapter 33 it may be that the tent of meeting is envisaged as a provisional arrangement, a substitute tabernacle for the duration of God's withholding his own direct Presence from Israel: God meets directly only with Moses in the tent of meeting — and that «face to face» (vs. 11; but note also the contrast in verse 20, apparently stemming from another of the sources employed by tradition in the shaping of the present account).

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

It usually involves an intricate arrangement of several pillows of various shapes and sizes propped here and there.

Hydrangea and large blooming flowers like garden roses or peonies are perfect for arrangements like these because they quickly fill a lot of space and create a nice shape.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

An asymmetric shape can be created through variations in the thickness or stretchiness of the membrane, or the arrangement of molecular constituents like collagen.

Paula Stephan, a labor economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the next generation committee, has described these arrangements and their effects in exacting detail in her book, How Economics Shapes Science, and a number of the previous reports and studies concur with her observations.

Beneath this convoluted arrangement lie lens - shaped chunks of fat, which whalers called junk because they are more difficult to retrieve than the contents of the spermaceti organ.

The finding could help engineers and materials scientists produce solar cells and other opto - electronics without the help of the high temperatures required to shape glass today — making this ancient arrangement a boon for modern technology.

The Spanish scientists examined the shape of the magnetosomes and their arrangement inside the cells using various experimental methods such as electron cryotomography.

Dr Crispin Jordan, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.»

«When the magnetic moments of the electrons are aligned in a magnetic field, the electron cloud shape and the atomic arrangement become more symmetric and homogenous.

Histological measurements revealed that specific arrangements of reflective guanine platelets in the fish's skin produce angle - dependent polarization modifications for polarocrypsis in the open ocean, suggesting a mechanism for natural selection to shape reflectance properties in this complex environment.

Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level - the nanometer scale - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D «superlattice» multicomponent nanoparticle arrays where the arrangement of particles is driven by the shape of the tiny building blocks.

Physicists have typically paid little attention to topology — the mathematical study of shapes and their arrangement in space.

The order and arrangement of the bones in the four limbs of land - dwelling animals are an exaptation for walking on land, since these limbs originally evolved for navigating water; by contrast, changes to the shape of the bones and to the musculature are adaptations, Gould and Vrba wrote.

It is not the raw numbers of researchers but the institutional arrangements in which they work that shape the course of productivity and innovation.

The overall shape and arrangement of bones in the creature's feet suggests that it was a ground - dweller and may have dug into the soil to forage for grubs or other prey.

While it is premature to speculate on the implications of this work for decision - making regarding child custody, the work is valuable as it suggests that «something as basic as the amount of time that one spends with a parent or one's living arrangements» can shape the quality of child - parent relationships, write Fraley and Heffernan.

«Earlier design methods used strategies including parallel arrangement of DNA helices to approximate arbitrary shapes, but precise fine - tuning of DNA wireframe architectures that connect vertices in 3D space has required a new approach,» Yan says.

Each compound has a different carbon - fluorine group attached to a buckyball — a special arrangement of carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball.

The surface is significantly altered during synthesis, with 70 % of the relatively flat surface, referred to as (110), turning into a more open arrangement of short triangular - shaped protrusions with (111) facets.

The musculoskeletal system is the arrangement of bones, muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments that protects your organs, shapes and supports your body, and is critical to all movement.

Of all the geometric shapes in the world, hexagons can be packed closest together, in an arrangement known as hexagonal close - packing [wikipedia].

By anatomy, he means the shape and arrangement of body parts.

topography The height, shape and arrangement of physical features on the Earth or another surface.

So instead of choosing a flower arrangement based on its colors or shapes, she'll look into the language of flowers to choose a bouquet that symbolizes what a client wants to attract into her life.

The three - dimensional organization of proteins also involves special arrangements, which leads to the shape or conformation of the protein.