Sentences with phrase «figure and ground on»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

I am not a fan of turkey by any means but I am on a healthy kick and sick of chicken so I figured ground turkey chili would be flavorful enough for me to withstand it being turkey and OH MY did this recipe NOT dissappoint!!!

I'd read somewhere on the internet before that it was super simple to grind the groats into flour, and given that buckwheat flour costs twice as much as groats, I figured I'd just put my trusty blender to use and create my own buckwheat flour.

Insideworldfootball figures are based on official ground capacities and reported attendance figures.

There were just a few each day and we figured it may have been because we were on the ground floor.

We took a walk around the block, and when he cried, I decided to try to help him figure it out instead of letting it grind on me.

Just when you and your partner have established common ground on the basics of raising a baby, here comes a new, hot - button issue to figure out: how you'll discipline your almost - toddler.

We figure a blanket, a few small toys, and this baby's brothers may be all the entertainment she needs while on the ground.

Next he'll figure out how to prop himself up on his arms and hold his chest off the ground, sort of a mini-pushup.

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.

If they can opt out of the collective bargaining agreement and be on their own to figure out wages and benefits, as well as legal protection, then we may have common ground.

The casualty figure was confirmed by ground forces who subsequently consolidated on the gains of the air effort to pursue and inflict further casualty on the fleeing wounded members of the terrorist group.»

Six days on from the cataclysmic result of the US election and there are still some who cling to the hope that Donald Trump will soon turn into a moderate, centre ground Republican figure.

The underlying figures on economic competence and who would make the best leader also show the Conseratives gaining ground — Labour now have only a 3 point lead on which party would be better at running the economy well and Blair is only 1 point ahead of Cameron on who would make the best Prime Minister.

The facts on the ground today are that INEC has cleaned its register and came out with less figures — Kano, for instance came down from 7Milion to 3.5 Million voters.

To figure out just how fast it was moving, Persons and his team first estimated how high the dinosaur's hips must have been above the ground, based on the length of the footprint.

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 eaten.

And what else is interesting about that is that there are other animals that have figured out, as human worm charmers [have], that if they set up vibrations on top of the ground, worms will rise to meet them.

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.

However, I eat a lot of ground / minced beef and lamb as it is quick and easy to prepare but should I be working out my macros on the raw weight figures?

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?

There are twists on the racing, like a beat - the - bomb distance challenge and a chaotic but acceptable weapons - based race called Assault, but it all became a grind quicker than I figured it would.

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).

Her Amy is by far the film's most grounded character and is a sympathetic figure for the audience to latch on to.

This guide page exists to help you out if you're trying to figure out what the best way to earn or grind Fight Money is — this'll help you to fill your account, and once you do, you can go on a DLC spending spree — though you'll need to pick and choose carefully if you don't plan to spend any real money.

The reason it became reductionist is because education reform is complex and has a lot of ground to cover, so people thought they'd focus on a few things and get that moving and then figure out the rest later.

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.

Three figures, two women and a man, hurried from a hired landau on the avenue de Suffren across the parade ground toward the balloon.

This exquisitely written novel - as - linked - stories is an impressive ode to feminism as Whitney Otto follows the lives and careers of eight daring female photographers — most based on real - life figures — staking their ground as artists throughout the 20th century.

Sergeant Jessica Aldridge is also eight thousand miles away, ten thousand feet in the air, and so near the figures on the ground below her that she might reach down and pick them up like dolls.

As we tumble through space in Her Royal Majesty's SkyShip Publishicanus that center of gravity keeps leaping from bulkhead to bulkhead tossing us about like a bunch of Mexican Jumping Beans on a July Guadalajara sidewalk, trying to figure out which side to be standing on when the ship finally slams into terra firma and hoping that we'll be landing feet first on the part that becomes the bottom instead of learning too late we're standing on the wrong surface and finding ourselves proiecisset faciem primus into the newly declared ground floor.

Our expectation that this could be «Amazon's biggest press conference ever» is based in large part on the impressive breadth of groundbreaking new announcements that the company seems poised to make, but figuring out how Amazon could break all that ground without stories A and B stepping on stories C, D, and E is way above my pay grade, and perhaps even Bezos».

We usually just drop the flags on the driveway, and the dogs usually figure out that it means the same as a flag that is stuck in the ground.

In such a case, for the time being, you can still reward your dog by dropping treats to the ground, smearing some peanut butter or cream cheese on a long metal spoon (most dogs don't like to bite on metal) or putting the treat on your flat palm, which by the way, is the way you give treats to horses (fingers may look like carrots and you don't want to figure out the type of pain a horse's teeth may inflict!)

I figured Aaron wouldn't want to spend more than two weeks on the ground, and thankfully was able to find an itinerary that should work well.

Although you may find yourself crouched over a hole in the ground as cramps spasm through you, or sweating profusely as you desperately try to figure how to flush a toilet that just will not flush, once the nightmarish ordeal is over, you will look back on it in an almost fond way, as the details fade, and all you remember of the ordeal is the stunning location where you nearly shit your pants.

This was a bit of an issue as the hotel is quite large and has five separate wings and, despite my stays in hotels large and small, had I not finally asked, I would have never figured out that room 2181 was on the ground floor.

With today's «Travel Made Easy» post you will get a summary of all you need to know about Philippine Airlines — the facts & figures of their fleet, destinations, the experience on the ground and in the air and their reward program, Mabuhay Miles!

Fans of the group can pick up «Burn It to the ground,» «Figured You out,» Never Again,» «Photograph,» «Rockstar,» and «This Afternoon,» next week in the Rock Band Music Store on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii.

I remember spending hours kicking asses and taking names back upon the game's release and, even though the controls admittedly feel clunky when compared to modern titles, the core gameplay that made Devil May Cry such a standout hit is still very much an addictive romp through crowds of enemies... Even if it did take me a while to figure out how to shoot when on the ground, which necessitates holding a trigger button to aim unlike when you're airborne and unloading clips into the faces of possessed marionettes.

She even figures out how to use it, though Mario speeding by on a Bullet Bill causes her to spin out of control and crash to the ground.

It just seems like we were able to cover our ground and figure out what was going on in a good flow.

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.

Tuck writes that: «the paintings in this show alternate between the quiet and the chaotic: landscapes that are represented like in comics and topographical maps — on a soft colored ground lines are drawn with paint, the figures are much smaller than life size and feel like quotes from movies... [Richter] draws seamlessly from our common cultures of art, entertainment, violence, music, etc., and plants these things in his paintings.»

In Beachcombing (1997), we are confronted by two green keyhole figures located on a clearly marked ground line and apparently in some kind of dialog or peculiar dance.