Sentences with phrase «figure and ground»

As the artist experienced the motion of the figure and of his own strokes the distinction between figure and ground diminished until woman was no longer differentiated from landscape.

The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work also challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction.

They become positive forms that push forward of the grid when figure and ground shift in relation to each other.

Text and background often receive equal weight, making figure and ground ambiguous, abstract.

He's got an interesting way of handling figure and ground.

In some work there is a direct representation of the ground or landscape, other work intellectually presents a more abstract tension between figure and ground.

The artist continues to push the relationship of figure and ground to the point of minimizing the ground.

Enter Amy Feldman who employs the inconspicuous grey in a play with figure and ground on a series of new large square canvases.

There, she experimented with setting up contrasting relationships between figure and ground in order to explore the conditions of Gestalt perception.

Soft and milky colors provide background for the luminous skin tones Semmel captures, as figure and ground merge.

Pointillist canvases by Graham Anderson dissolve figure and ground into flattened, synthetic illusions.

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.

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

Thereafter, abstract painters sought to make involving pictures without images, but the schism of figure and ground on which imagery depends continued to pose problems.

In Cultural Shift, Whitten goes a step further, separating figure and ground by using acrylic elements formed through different techniques.

The complex structure of the painting makes it appear as if each colour in turn becomes alternately figure and ground.

Conflating figure and ground, inside and outside, the physical and the psychological, Gormley explores complex relationships between the city, its architecture and its people.

The extraordinary closeness of tone between figure and ground endows her marks with a ghostly presence: they seem to have been coaxed into existence or, conversely, to be on the verge of disappearing.

Laskey entered this stream late, long after color field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis (1912 - 1962) perfected the staining of unprimed canvas as a means to marry figure and ground.

Grooms's signature style fuses fine art and pop culture imagery, collapsing figure and ground into an abstract field.

Figure and ground get conflated within layers, and spaces seem to shift between two and three dimensions and back again.

Worse, does the very thought of figure and ground sound wrong to you for Abstract Expressionism?

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

Diana Shpungin's animation Figure and Ground references both literal and figurative «ground» with a shovel digging into a penciled texture.

It does, however, convincingly trace Still's deft manipulation of figure and ground back to observation.

The shocking way Still's paintings fused figure and ground so completely left his 1940s contemporaries (as well as art historians) flummoxed and awe - struck.

Sandbox embodies yet another shift in how Whitten approaches figure and ground.

In the 1990s, Whitten concertedly separates figure and ground through color, as is evident in Black Monolith II and Vibrations.

12.25 pm Lucy Reynolds, CSM, University of the Arts London, Lecturer, artist and curator Figure and Ground: En - gendering Formal Film

Figure and ground invert and revert without clear resolution.

In the drawings on view, we find Kline re-weighting figure and ground, toying with the calligraphic implication of gestures, letting one sheet contain a graphic incident completely, treating another as if it had stood in the path of a whirlwind of brushwork.

Anderson applies paint with deceptive ease, as if eager to capture the scene before it drifts away; figure and ground blend to create compositional spaces where subjects fluidly project forward and recede back into permeable picture planes.

Clarity of form, a superb sense of color and breathtaking plays with figure and ground place Nozkowski into the rare league of artists that transform the art of looking into an act of pure pleasure and delight.

Other times she reverses figure and ground with thick, energetic brushstrokes.

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.

Pensato's black and white take turns as figure and ground, but the blackness has spread and penetrated the white.

As part of Expanding Narratives, this presentation explores how printmaker Félix Buhot dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium.

By 1943 these forms have been loosened and fragmented into a gestural calligraphy combined with spots of darkened color that integrate figure and ground.

At Theodore: Art, Eric Brown, in «Punctuate,» examines the tension of figure and ground in paintings that are fun and funny — caprices of 1960s Color Field art. 7 At David & Schweitzer, the esteemed Brenda Goodman finds expression in the working and reworking of her materials, with etched - over abstractions that read as psychological portraiture.8

Given his later achievement of merging figure and ground, this early evidence of sensitivity to planar shifts in light and dark is unsurprising.

Ryan Wallace, too, plays with figure and ground.

By utilizing negative space and alternating between a sense of representing a discrete object or a cutaway section of the ground, he re-examines formal ideas of figure and ground relationships and the image shifts between flat areas of modern colour and illusory depth.

The primary factors that influence pair preferences appear to be preferences for single colors (of the individual figural color and / or ground color), color harmony of figure and ground, lightness contrast between figure and ground, and figural preference against a colored ground.

In this unit we investigate: • semiotics and graphics • reaction to sign and symbols: gain attention, convention and culture, response • denotation and connotation • principles of gestalt theory: similarity, continuation, closure, proximity, common fate, figure and ground • the role of Gestalt theory plays in graphics.

We are constantly faced with «figure and ground» issues with statistical models.

Perhaps more influential than light, however, was Impressionist fracturing: the equity granted to light and shadow on the picture plane was extended to figure and ground, opening toward abstraction.