Sentences with phrase «figure and ground in»

(There's an almost Escher - like oscillation of figure and ground in many of her works.)

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.

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

On this stage, the action happens in the future anterior: the work for Art in General will have materialized as a double obstruction, via an interruption of the normal cleaning process in a fish tank at NY Aquarium in Coney Island, leading to an accumulation of algae on both the «screen» and the transparent polyhedron, and the invisibility of figure and ground in the «flooded museum».

Since her successful inaugural exhibition in April 2016, Anna Leonhardt has continued her investigation into the unsettled dichotomy of figure and ground in painting.

The first iteration in a three - part exhibition series, Expanding Narratives uses the formal relationship between the figure and the ground in Western art history as a conceptual springboard into discussions around visual representation, the museum space, and the role of the Smart Museum's collection in fostering the exchange of diverse perspectives.

Adjacent to the main space, a section of the exhibition explores how nineteenth - century French printmaker Félix Buhot dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium.

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.

Expanding Narratives uses the formal relationship between the figure and the ground in art history as a conceptual springboard into discussions around visual representation, the museum space, and the role of the Smart Museum's collection in fostering the exchange of diverse perspectives.

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

Not exact matches

The family suffered a major loss this year with the death of their matriarch, Marilyn Thomson, who had been a grounding figure for her three children and, in many ways, inspired their ambition.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

B2B Marketers will need to get grounded in figuring out what buyer ecosystems and buyer networks exist for their respective industries.

By citing the authority of both passages, the Second Vatican Council sought to affirm universality and particularity simultaneously and to ground both of them in the figure of Jesus.

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.

Especially when those on the stoney ground are saying they aren't going to try to figure it out, when you know the value of taking the time to figure it out... and they write it off as BS, or believing in «Fred Flintstone».

Now, there's no exact science to figuring out which areas of the world God hates the most — though you're not quite at Toledo's level yet — however, I do think that Tuesday's earthquake suggests that God's current hatred for you — as in, the Northeast corridor between Richmond and Boston — is slightly greater than his hatred for say, whatever current spot of ground Vladimir Putin is standing on.

PSU has an incredibly active secondary — 45 percent opponents» incompletions have been due to either interceptions or breakups, second-most in the country — and it's unlikely that O'Korn and a young receiving corps will figure out how to do much damage, so Higdon and the ground game will have to carry the day.

The Eagles have a lethal defensive front, a solid secondary and a potent ground game, but I figured the Falcons would be able stop Foles in his tracks, make the Eagles one - dimensional, and gut out a win.

Morgan might have made for an easily pokeable figure of fun last term, but the Jamaica international has stood tall above the rest this season to block, grunt and grind his team to the Premier League title — lest we forget, straight after back - to - back summer international tournaments in the Gold Cup and Copa America.

If I've learned anything in my 20s, it's this: «Figuring out who you are» is really just finding your best self — the perspective that helps you feel clear and grounded and you — and anchoring into it.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

A pop culture icon and ground - breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science.

Fortunately there are people on the ground in these countries who know who is doing what; Lyons's challenge is to figure out who they are and get to know them.

In addition to previous work on arctic ground squirrel hibernation and seasonal differences in behavior, the finding is helping his team figure out why males tend to be more susceptible to being eateIn addition to previous work on arctic ground squirrel hibernation and seasonal differences in behavior, the finding is helping his team figure out why males tend to be more susceptible to being eatein behavior, the finding is helping his team figure out why males tend to be more susceptible to being eaten.

Using data on the rate at which water flows in the creek and official figures on how much salt is spread on the roads, he calculated that even by November only about 45 per cent of the previous winter's salt had been washed down the creek; the rest remained in the ground water.

«Wasser is doing what's needed, figuring out where on the ground the poaching is happening,» says Ken Goddard, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon.

Shallow shotgun metagenomics means instead of using the 16S rRNA as a marker gene, we fragment all the DNA in the sample, grind it up, sequence it in small pieces, and try to figure out what it is afterwards.

Getting to a paper is a grind — it represents many hours in lab and many, many failed experiments, significant data analysis and interpretation, as well as the actual time spent writing the manuscript and putting together figures and data in a way that communicates the significance more broadly.

The diagram in Figure 2, shows the parts of a crystal radio: antenna, tuning coil, diode (labeled as «detector»), earphones, and a connection to an electrical «ground.»

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.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

In the model shown in Figure 9, we suggest that a similar uncommitted and self - renewing state may exist in the direction of ectodermal differentiation and we imagine the ground state could consist of at least three distinct populations in equilibriuIn the model shown in Figure 9, we suggest that a similar uncommitted and self - renewing state may exist in the direction of ectodermal differentiation and we imagine the ground state could consist of at least three distinct populations in equilibriuin Figure 9, we suggest that a similar uncommitted and self - renewing state may exist in the direction of ectodermal differentiation and we imagine the ground state could consist of at least three distinct populations in equilibriuin the direction of ectodermal differentiation and we imagine the ground state could consist of at least three distinct populations in equilibriuin equilibrium.

In estimating the total cost of ground - based capital projects, the committee has adopted the figures of 7 percent per year for operations, 3 percent per year for new instrumentation, 3 percent per year for grants for major facilities, and 5 percent per year for grants for moderate facilities.

With ground - based telescopes, astronomers can tell the supernova's color and how it changes with time, which lets them figure out what chemicals are present in the explosion.

The thing I am always reminded of is to stay open and innovative in my training, and to figure out how I can keep grinding away without damaging my body.

When the creatures make their way to the ground, Jack must figure out how to get back down before they destroy earth and everyone in it.

For years after the January 6, 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, I can recall peers in school hallways recreating the assault, faux - victims collapsing to the ground and bellowing, «Why me?

The third season of United States of Tara found Tara and her family breaking new ground: Tara's situation with her alters took a huge swing in unexpected directions; Max had a major realization about his job; Kate had to figure out the first step in forging her own life; Marshall had love and life issues to deal with while trying to get a start in serious filmmaking; Charmaine had to put aside her issues with Tara to accept her help in dealing with her daughter, wheels [you'll have to watch to understand — I'm not even going to try to explain], and even Dr. Hattaras had a life - altering experience [though not one he particularly wanted].

The re-imagined historical figures genre has become a new testing ground for Hollywood, most notably with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on the horizon (FYI: Edgar Allan Poe makes a guest appearance in the novel), where writers can take household names — and put a new, and in theory more exciting, twist on what would otherwise result in stuffier true - life drama (i.e. Steven Spielberg's Lincoln biopic).

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

But once the data are adjusted for the effects of the key background characteristics identified above, black students appear to lose much more ground than they do in the raw averages, falling 0.16 standard deviations in math and 0.19 standard deviations in reading relative to white students (see Figure 1).

But to argue that families can't run schools (and can not figure out ways to reach common ground with those families who may not support the effort) ignores the reality that this is done every day by families in every aspect of life.

Improving Dorsal Stream Function in Dyslexics by Training Figure / Ground Motion Discrimination Improves Attention, Reading Fluency, and Working Memory.

Grounded in a sociocultural perspective, the figure reflects the many layers that influence and shape a students» literacy development, from family and community values and practices to those of the school; from the specific school curricula and related areas of emphases to those of the literacy curriculum.

Study: Districts are in the earliest stages of figuring out how to recast the assistant principal's job so it can serve as both a proving ground and an apprenticeship for the top slot.

It really is all - new from the ground up, even the 6 - litre twin - turbo W12 is all - new, and figures of 626bhp, 664 lb ft aren't to be sniffed at, especially when it's capable of launching the GT from a 0 - 62mph in just 3.7 sec and on to a top speed of 207mph.

I won't pretend that this original car has the savagery that we'll discover in the 997s, but the engine is sweet, and beyond 5000rpm this tiny car flies across the ground and deep into three figures with uncomfortable regularity.

As I mentioned in the last report, I managed to get a feel for how the tyres performed after a heavy hailstorm but its when the temperature gauge shows the minus figures and the ice is blanketed across the ground that things tend to get really tricky.

Normally we'd get the performance figures in the bag before pounding around the track, but today circumstances compel us to do the laps first and Millbrook Proving Ground second.