Sentences with phrase «dimensional figures in space»

Calder developed a new method of sculpting by bending and twisting wire — he essentially «drew» three - dimensional figures in space.

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The «best society» he must imitate to become a man among men is composed of one - dimensional figures who now crowd the stage space, bearing lavish silver gifts (props for Merrick's humanity) in a Christmas pilgrimage to the London Hospital.

These are largely based on reports of subjective emotional experiences and the temporal relationships between different reported states, and suggest that these states can be represented as locations in two - or three - dimensional space (figure 1).

Painters eventually stopped trying to represent objects in three - dimensional space not because photographs could do it better (photographs don't represent anything as a matter of fact) but because the painterly conventions involved in representing objects (and landscapes and the human figure, etc.) could no longer do what they were supposed to do, namely, form or discover a connection between the painter (and viewer) and the world.

Floating in a space in front of it we see a transparent geometrical figure, or cluster of figures, that alternates between being flat and being three dimensional, the whole painting also seeming to undulate gently.