Sentences with phrase «as foil»

Fellow garden designer Patrick Wynniatt - Husey, of Wynniatt - Husey Clarke Garden Design, explains that a painted surface will draw the eye to an area or feature, adding: «In our designs, we also use coloured walls to create a sense of depth or foreshorten a space, and as a foil to planting.»

A minimal base (think all - white furniture, floors and walls) acts as a foil for accessories and soft furnishings grouped and displayed with items of the same colour.

Above, the Krokodil composite stone worktops act as a foil to the pale furniture.

Maybe it's better as a foil for a more patterned backsplash.

Black hi - gloss cabinetry within the central island unit acts as a foil to the light Vanilla doors elsewhere.

The mirror is mounted on an easel (which gets round the issue of the curved wall), while the loveseat was reupholstered in a bright fabric as a foil to the grey concrete.

The adjacent living room floors were restained a dark shade as a foil for the room's creamy - colored woodwork.

Use warm taupe as a foil for printed fabrics and quirky accessories.

I do like the white backdrop as a foil for the fun colors.

In play therapy, clinicians provide experiences that support healthy, safe touch through activities such as foil hand prints, lotion on hands or feet, holding hands during activities, or working together on a task.

Blake's famous poem about that period in European history serves as a foil to the charge that we cobblers must give up our shops and join the ranks of shoe - assemblers:

(And that's a surprising number of folks, I think — in that sense even the denialists play a useful role as foil in the public space: they stimulate the debate, which provides seemingly unending opportunities to educate.

But the article uses the meme of «the science is settled» as a foil — and as such it reflects an unfortunate tendency among climate warriors to simplify complex matters.

I myself am very bored of the proxy wars that use «science» as foil when in fact there is something else driving the true debate.

The new target: Naomi Oreskes who last week found her research used as a foil by some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to try and discredit the widely - accepted and growing view that there is a broad scientific consensus on the evidence of human - caused global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

These she filters through the unavoidable artifice of modern life, using conscious painterly abstraction as a foil.

Created through an intricate process, the 18 works on paper in this exhibition serve as a foil to the large painting also on view, the stark shapes of which recall archaic hieroglyphic text.

[1] Instead, sound plays a complementary role in these works, making reference to places, cultures or traditions in combination with, or acting as a foil to, the visual.

In drawing upon the marionette tradition, Shawky uses its seemingly lighthearted form and magical theatricality as a foil to urge viewers to develop an understanding of the contentious history that is still played out within the Arab region.

Schulz and Bandau: In recent pieces at Sweetow, Bay Area painter Cornelia Schulz goes deeper into a vein she has worked for some years: the multi-part shaped canvas as a foil for one of abstract painting's potential weaknesses: the merely decorative.

Drawing a Blank is a group show of works culled from various periods, modern and contemporary, in which the appearance of expressionless vacancy and equipoise may be seen as a foil for troubled thought.

In contrast to this goal, the artist uses collage as a foil because of its straightforward and recognizable qualities.

Organized by Paul Martineau, Associate Curator for the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition used these photographs as a foil for exploring Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr.'s enduring vision and influence.

Here, the artist employs hard optics as a foil to stasis and continues his exploration of the refusal of vision.

Vitruvian Figure includes older works with several newly commissioned works, such as a stadium that combines monumental and miniature forms as a foil for the artist's «uncanny observations on the media as a primary influence shaping contemporary consciousness and behavior.»

Use the brilliant people as a foil to spur yourself and the total fools as entertainment fodder...

The crude pasting of the posters leaves smeared traces after application, ensuring that the mode of display is very much apparent, acting as a foil to the aesthetic qualities of the images.

A standout series, calling on geometry as a foil (Bourgeois had been a mathematics student in Paris), the puritan (1990) juxtaposes eight gridded engravings with strangely moving vignettes that build to a semi-climax of revelation, then trail off to the mystery of runes.

Barclay's sculptures capture a moment within this process, as the foil sheath bestows a sensuous fragility that neither fully covers nor wholly reveals the being underneath.

The tempera underpainting, in lazily applied, neutral earth tones, acts as a foil for the chromatically saturated oils scraped and scribbled over them.

His work often uses meticulous representation as foil for examining skill and craft.

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

It demonstrates not only the power of the artist's use of his autobiographical landscape as a foil for considering a collective experience, but also his technical expertise as a sculptor.

Back in New York, immersed in the circle of artists known as the New York School and with Cage and Cunningham's avant - garde influence as a foil, Rauschenberg explored many of the central ideas of Abstract Expressionism, both acknowledging and transgressing the movement's emphasis on gesture, individualism, action, and direct expression through paint.

In Untitled, the muted tonal values of the background act as the foil to the erupting yet subtle color and animated brushwork in the center.

It is a meditation on entropy using Gothic cathedrals as a foil to examine the dichotomy of beauty and loss.»

They are asking bigger questions of personal and metaphysical concerns, using the figure and its environment as a foil to explore the nature of existence.

A group of watercolors, installed in a grid, conveys Nickson's idea of painting the same tree as a foil to sunrises and sunsets.

He suggests that unique materials, such as foil or varnish, may provide tactile variation to denote elements like bold characters.

This means travelling through time (thanks to some nifty wormholes) and taking on a myriad of different missions as you foil his plans and ensure the world is going to be safe for a little while longer.

It's about Yuna, and her journey, and he is mostly there as a foil to help us learn more about the world, a way to offer us explanations of Spira and its culture, since he doesn't know anything about it himself.

On the way to Sonoma, plan to stop at Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, the working ranch of Mexican General Vallejo who founded Sonoma and served as a foil for the Russians in the region.

It was a perfect contrast of tastes and textures: the chewy blandness of the pav acting as a foil to the piquant crunchiness of the vada.

For cats, you can bring along a small disposable litter tray, such as a foil baking pan.

Our hardcover books are available in laminate, cloth or jacketed, with marks of craftsmanship such as foil stamping available upon request.

Make sure you're getting samples that are in a similar trim size, have the same binding and, if appropriate, have the «pluses» that your book has such as foil or embossing on the cover.

In what ways does Caroline Herschel serve as a foil for Siobhan?

Maserati designed the Levante, the first crossover in the company's 100 - plus - year history, as a foil for the likes of the Porsche Cayenne and BMW X5.

Hennessey unveiled the Exorcist, a tuner special based on the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, last year as a foil for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.

Finney also gives a good performance, holding his own and fleshing out Masry's character while serving as a foil to Roberts.