Sentences with phrase «clear figure ground»

The paintings you post are not really what I was thinking of (this doesn't relate to a judgment on quality) as the palette is limited and the clear figure ground contrast doesn't make the painting very «complex» in my view (others, I'm sure, would see complexity in its subtlety).

Not exact matches

If I've learned anything in my 20s, it's this: «Figuring out who you are» is really just finding your best self — the perspective that helps you feel clear and grounded and you — and anchoring into it.

Mr. de Blasio has, at times, stumbled in prior attempts to make himself into a national figure championing liberal policies, but his appearances this week have made it clear that on matters of race, he speaks from a firmer, more familiar ground.

The coupling of clear form with an at times confused figure - ground relationship is a hallmark of John Phillips's oils.

Figure and ground invert and revert without clear resolution.

The works of Gardner and Maltese have clear affinities — their separate practices arise from a pictorial alchemy where, while maintaining mimetic characteristics of modernism, surrealism and troupes of abstraction, the distinction between figure and ground or environment has been significantly collapsed, favoring more flattened volumes and depths of field.

A broad simplification of format, a breakdown of the clear figure - ground relationship, a looser more lyrical handling of the surface produce pictures free to operate with an enhanced optical and emotive vitality.

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