Sentences with phrase «confounding figure and ground»

Rectangles lunge at the spectator in his abstract film Rhythms 21 (1921), confounding figure and ground; collaborations with Viking Eggeling and Kazimir Malevich promised the convertibility of all signals and sensations, electronic and tactile, into a universal code.

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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.

The combined elements create a pictorial space confounding ideas of ornamentation and desire, high and low forms, figure and ground.

These are just a few of the things that struck me about work in the exhibition: Feeley was intensely interested in a confounded figure - ground relationship; he was able to economically synthesize the formal and the comic; he was attentive to the erotic; his work clearly stands apart from Color Field painting.»