Sentences with phrase «certain of the abstract forms»

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«We think that greater variability in brain function in certain regions allows better processing of information, especially during highly demanding memory and reasoning tasks, which require someone to remember information, form associations, or perform abstract mental operations.

An abstract form is an isolated form with a certain size, shape, color, texture and edges that has no meaning other than its own qualities of size, shape, etc..

In whole, the installation examines what the artist calls certain abstract forms and the symbolic order of white supremacy.

I myself once compared her paintings to those of Josef Albers, seeing them as «fundamentally abstract, the house [being] not so much a house as the form of a house, a given shape, a certain geometry,» like those endless squares painted by the ex-Bauhaus colorist.

While the dense hang downstairs is successful — the individual historical works hold their own against neighbours, the clutter lending the show itself a certain abstract quality in which form and colour between compositions seem to overlap — this device of overfilling the space falls apart upstairs.

Sam Francis was an abstract painter, and therefore the dimensions of the subject do not follow the preconceptions that form our lives, but rather, spread across space and time in certain ways that are not spelled out for us in logic.

Michelangelo, with an eye trained to the material weight of color, might have been comfortable with this form of sculptural painting, even if Tsao's abstract language is more akin to the late 1950s New York School, with Pollock's spattering giving way — at certain turns of mood or emotion — to sublime color fields reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler or Ellsworth Kelly.

Encouraged by his insistence that he has never been an abstract painter, and by certain suggestive colours and forms - an arrow, say, or an overcast grey - the viewer would begin to discern all kinds of figurative images, even scenarios, where none was available at first.

Gorelick switches styles, as any artist might, to question the formal success of certain techniques: Is the effect of an abstract form in color and shape more genuine to the human?