Sentences with phrase «figure and ground blend»

Not exact matches

Contrast this with the traditional approach being used by other large telescopes, both ground based and space - based, in which they have to blend a combination of small figuring and large smoothing tools to generate optical surfaces, and are therefore difficult to make repeatedly for hundreds of segments.

Another has abstract figures lying about on a field much as in early Joan Miró or Arshile Gorky, in colors much like theirs, and yet another includes sand and coffee grinds — like a blend of everyday life, Jean Dubuffet, and an underground cave.

In some images Woodman quite literally becomes one with her surroundings, with the contours of her form blurred by movement, or blending into the background, wallpaper or floor, revealing the lack of distinction of both - between figure and ground, self and world.

Combining elements of science fiction, hip - hop culture and comic - book graphics, each figure is at once politically charged, physically grounded and fantastic — a blend of willful self - determination and culturally conditioned myth.