Sentences with phrase «confusing figure and ground»

He criticized the current climate of testing in America for confusing figure and ground.

Always wanting to stay on terra firma, he never went so far as to confuse the figure and ground in ways that may undermine the painting's stability.

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The finely detailed, hand - painted miniature patterns in gouache add an unusual visual register to the transparent watercolors, layering silhouetted bodies in sinewy vines and other organic shapes, and confusing traditional distinctions between figure and ground.

Works by painters Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, and Frank Stella clarify or confuse elements of figure and ground by redefining the possibilities of the shaped canvas and how it can contain color and gesture.

The resulting interplay between colors confuses the conventional relationship between figure and ground, a technique adapted from the Impressionists that also channels de Kooning.

The finely detailed, hand - painted miniature patterns in gouache an unusual visual register to the transparent watercolors, layering silhouetted bodies in sinewy vines and other organic shapes, and confusing traditional distinctions between figure and ground.