Sentences with phrase «as figure and ground»

Pensato's black and white take turns as figure and ground, but the blackness has spread and penetrated the white.

Soft and milky colors provide background for the luminous skin tones Semmel captures, as figure and ground merge.

Not exact matches

Often, the journey of figure out our beliefs for ourselves starts with going back to the very beginning, abandoning the things we accepted as true and rebuilding from the ground up.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

Especially when those on the stoney ground are saying they aren't going to try to figure it out, when you know the value of taking the time to figure it out... and they write it off as BS, or believing in «Fred Flintstone».

Now, there's no exact science to figuring out which areas of the world God hates the most — though you're not quite at Toledo's level yet — however, I do think that Tuesday's earthquake suggests that God's current hatred for you — as in, the Northeast corridor between Richmond and Boston — is slightly greater than his hatred for say, whatever current spot of ground Vladimir Putin is standing on.

I'd read somewhere on the internet before that it was super simple to grind the groats into flour, and given that buckwheat flour costs twice as much as groats, I figured I'd just put my trusty blender to use and create my own buckwheat flour.

He also upset fans by walking straight down the tunnel after figuring as a substitute yesterday's 1 - 0 derby win against Villa, and he was the first Baggies player to leave the ground around 30 minutes after the final whistle.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

If they can opt out of the collective bargaining agreement and be on their own to figure out wages and benefits, as well as legal protection, then we may have common ground.

And what else is interesting about that is that there are other animals that have figured out, as human worm charmers [have], that if they set up vibrations on top of the ground, worms will rise to meet them.

Shallow shotgun metagenomics means instead of using the 16S rRNA as a marker gene, we fragment all the DNA in the sample, grind it up, sequence it in small pieces, and try to figure out what it is afterwards.

Getting to a paper is a grind — it represents many hours in lab and many, many failed experiments, significant data analysis and interpretation, as well as the actual time spent writing the manuscript and putting together figures and data in a way that communicates the significance more broadly.

The diagram in Figure 2, shows the parts of a crystal radio: antenna, tuning coil, diode (labeled as «detector»), earphones, and a connection to an electrical «ground.»

Figure 8's will help you feel the power move from the ground up as you learn to transfer force and shift your weight.

However, I eat a lot of ground / minced beef and lamb as it is quick and easy to prepare but should I be working out my macros on the raw weight figures?

Study: Districts are in the earliest stages of figuring out how to recast the assistant principal's job so it can serve as both a proving ground and an apprenticeship for the top slot.

As I mentioned in the last report, I managed to get a feel for how the tyres performed after a heavy hailstorm but its when the temperature gauge shows the minus figures and the ice is blanketed across the ground that things tend to get really tricky.

VW has not provided the ground clearance figure as of yet and we are keen to know what it will be.

This exquisitely written novel - as - linked - stories is an impressive ode to feminism as Whitney Otto follows the lives and careers of eight daring female photographers — most based on real - life figures — staking their ground as artists throughout the 20th century.

As we tumble through space in Her Royal Majesty's SkyShip Publishicanus that center of gravity keeps leaping from bulkhead to bulkhead tossing us about like a bunch of Mexican Jumping Beans on a July Guadalajara sidewalk, trying to figure out which side to be standing on when the ship finally slams into terra firma and hoping that we'll be landing feet first on the part that becomes the bottom instead of learning too late we're standing on the wrong surface and finding ourselves proiecisset faciem primus into the newly declared ground floor.

It wasn't until Allison figured out how to structure things financially and organizationally that we were finally able to get it off the ground, but as optimistic as we were about the idea, we weren't sure when we launched last summer if we could actually make it fly.

We usually just drop the flags on the driveway, and the dogs usually figure out that it means the same as a flag that is stuck in the ground.

With the destination breaking new ground in visitor figures, expanding its leading attractions, and welcoming a host of new properties, there is much to discuss as Breaking Travel News catches up with Haitham Mattar, chief executive of the Ras al Khaimah Tourist Board, during ITB Berlin.

Although you may find yourself crouched over a hole in the ground as cramps spasm through you, or sweating profusely as you desperately try to figure how to flush a toilet that just will not flush, once the nightmarish ordeal is over, you will look back on it in an almost fond way, as the details fade, and all you remember of the ordeal is the stunning location where you nearly shit your pants.

This was a bit of an issue as the hotel is quite large and has five separate wings and, despite my stays in hotels large and small, had I not finally asked, I would have never figured out that room 2181 was on the ground floor.

The resort ground is beautiful and is fully integrated into the surrounding landscape of the expanse rice terraces, river gorge and the forest featuring plenty water features, intricate carving, grand original statues and figure as well as unique earthy style creating magical feeling.

amiibo figures contain 200 Sparklium, and it is possible to grind the same Secret Spots to scan in all 42 compatible amiibo — especially seeing as there's no daily limit to scanning.

The paintings feature a heightened chromatic palette, complex figure / ground reversals, and interlocking forms, as well as a variety of surface textures modified by successive layers of resins, oils, and waxes.

Greene Naftali's program has reintroduced seminal figures, such as Guy de Cointet, Tony Conrad, and John Knight; and opened a ground - floor space with an inaugural exhibition featuring new and historical work by Dan Graham in September 2014.

Another has abstract figures lying about on a field much as in early Joan Miró or Arshile Gorky, in colors much like theirs, and yet another includes sand and coffee grinds — like a blend of everyday life, Jean Dubuffet, and an underground cave.

The figure of paint, once removed from the ground of the canvas used the world — including the architecture and institution of the museum as well as the social relations of its public — as its ground.

The crude texture of her characters» skin, the brash and deliberate outlines that define the exaggerated figures within tableaux, the patches of thinly applicated paint that barely cover the ground, or the dug - out passages of drawing that carve into the surface, are all archeological — as if she was unearthing some hidden pattern that was embedded into the canvas all along.

At Theodore: Art, Eric Brown, in «Punctuate,» examines the tension of figure and ground in paintings that are fun and funny — caprices of 1960s Color Field art. 7 At David & Schweitzer, the esteemed Brenda Goodman finds expression in the working and reworking of her materials, with etched - over abstractions that read as psychological portraiture.8

De Kooning digs into his plastic surface and pulls out shapes that coalesce into images and figures even as they dissipate and dig back into their ground.»

Perhaps most significantly, Schapiro's compositions are not allover abstractions, and that not alloverness — the fact that each presents a figure on a ground — is the one element that could be interpreted as a subtle critique of the Greenbergian imperative to deemphasize figure and privilege the totality and immediacy of ground.

Frank identifies Willem de Kooning's Excavation, 1950 (which hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago in Wolniak's hometown) as an antecedent, «marking a passage between figure and ground, image and abstraction, form and formlessness.

His vibrant paintings hinge on a tension between figure and ground; flatness and spatiality; edge and interior; geometry and disorder; with influences as varied as Henri Matisse, Edward Hicks, and Henri Rousseau.

She has consistently championed women artists, commissioning exhibitions from major figures such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, Mary Kelly, Joana Vasconcelos, Marina Abramovic, Jane and Louise Wilson, Elizabeth Price and, for the reopening of the Whitworth, a ground - breaking mid-career show by Cornelia Parker.

Exploring the complex interplay of invented and real - world inspirations that led to this body of figure / ground paintings, this volume presents a selection of 21 major paintings and 36 related drawings, collages, and photographs from that time period, as well as a new painting from 2002 that reexamines related concerns.

Modest in size, De Keyser's works have a special intimacy that derives from the physical characteristics of the medium itself, as well as the tension created between plane and depth, figure and ground.

But all of these pictures have in common the allover surface plane held in tension, between figure and ground, as an interwoven field.

Expanding Narratives uses the formal relationship between the figure and the ground in art history as a conceptual springboard into discussions around visual representation, the museum space, and the role of the Smart Museum's collection in fostering the exchange of diverse perspectives.

As part of Expanding Narratives, this presentation explores how printmaker Félix Buhot dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium.

Laskey entered this stream late, long after color field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) perfected the staining of unprimed canvas as a means to marry figure and ground.

While seemingly unrelated to the lessons of color and composition taught in Josef Albers's legendary Basic Design course, these works, as she explained, are firmly grounded in his teachings in their use of unexpected materials and their elision of figure and ground.

Her paintings» emotional charge and personal content serve as counterpoints to an almost clinical presentation of the figure — typically close - cropped and centered on an undefined ground — just as her energetic brushstrokes play off her dispassionate source imagery, ranging from newspaper clippings to Polaroids.

In production since 1997, these inclusive and interactive works act simultaneously as off - the - cuff quips and radical reconsiderations of the major questions key to both sculpture and art viewing: how figures relate to their ground, how one inhabits space, and how simple acts of re-framing can alter perceptions.

The first iteration in a three - part exhibition series, Expanding Narratives uses the formal relationship between the figure and the ground in Western art history as a conceptual springboard into discussions around visual representation, the museum space, and the role of the Smart Museum's collection in fostering the exchange of diverse perspectives.

He tries to let the ground mean as much as the figure, by stripping out the color, stripping down the all - over pattern, and setting it loose.