Sentences with phrase «figure and ground shift»

The figure and ground shift roles, elucidating one another and trading influence over the gaze of the viewer.

Not exact matches

Figure 8's will help you feel the power move from the ground up as you learn to transfer force and shift your weight.

The 4Motion system seemed slow to shift torque around, particularly if one of the wheels was raised from the ground, and the car would occasionally bog down or spin a wheel while the system figured things out or I reversed and tried again.

Bite has a trio of irregular white triangles that zig zag horizontally across the centre not unlike clothes on a washing line or bunting, their rhythm echoed by other more or less triangular shapes in green above and below, between them creating eccentric negative shapes that push forward, shifting alternately between figure and ground.

In this recorded sound performance, the artist plays a trumpet — one type of musical horn — to imitate car - related sounds; the performance comprises a series of perceptual shifts between figure and ground within an automotive soundscape — keynote or ground sounds (the hum of a motor) are speckled with soundmarks (the sound of screeching tires, the sound of a transmission shifting gears) and, in some moments within the composition, drift entirely into signals (the sound of a siren, the sound of an engine blowing out).

In my more recent paintings, by increasing the scale and gesture of the stars, the figure / ground relationship shifts from delicate to muscular.

Colors and surfaces vary in terms of density and reflectivity, and areas of the compositions frequently shift between positive and negative space, or between figure and ground.

However, the composition is fractured into further sections, as both the figure and ground seem to shift up and down across the length of the canvas.

For them, too, the mix let painting stop telling obvious stories — to become abstract, if you will — without losing concern for the shifting identities of figure and ground.

Shaffer uses a shifting figure / ground relationship calling to mind the flow of energy in, out and through us, depicting women enveloped within fields of gestural DNA - like marks or packed with radiating color strokes like bursts of energy set against darker voids.

The fluid movement between abstract, hand - applied oil and layered, photo - based silkscreens causes one to optically weave in and out of the compositional picture planes, thus drawing one's attention to the shifting relationship between figure and ground.

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

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

TEST SITES included a major new installation of BREATHING ROOM III (2010) the third and largest in this series of works which contain and implicate the viewer as the figure in a shifting ground.

By disrupting the pattern through shifts in color or the deployment of similar but subtly differing forms, Taaffe activates the visual field to the point that one must keep making distinctions, such as undoing the bond between 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.

So, I might imagine that the figure is being poured into her container, that the ground surrounding her is some denser stuff, holding her in place (like a mold), or that the painting itself is a slice of air and everything in it is just slightly shifting, like condensation, or everything is skin, pushing against the membrane of the picture plane.

The multiple, interpenetrating layers and constantly shifting figure / ground relationships are inseparable.