Sentences with phrase «figure and ground through»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

Back then, I absolutely loved it — I spent countless hours, grinding, earning mesetas, trying out different equipment to figure out what worked, and most of all, traversing every inch of the dungeons in order to create my own maps so I could figure out how to get through.

Through the use of color, chiaroscuro and an ethereal sense of light and space, Hollowell creates images that play with ideas of foreground and background, figure and ground, and body and landscape.

Through the use of color and chiaroscuro and an ethereal sense of light and space, Hollowell paints images that play with ideas of foreground and background, figure and ground, and body and landscape.

Without the distraction of recognizable imagery, Fox pursued his preoccupation with figure - ground ambiguity and moved through abstract impressionism to collage - inspired symbolic abstraction.

The Figure and the Ground challenges visitors to consider all the ways their own senses of perception and perspective can be shaped through the museum space.

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In his work, the eroticized body stands out assertively from its surroundings, rejecting the integration of figure and ground that characterizes the modernist tradition from Impressionism through Abstract Expressionism.

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.

About lines and strokes, about painting paint strokes, telling a story, using the grid, moving from figure and landscape space, making the work narrative, isolating strokes, thinking about the anatomy of a painting... being able to see the process the painting went through, the ground, pencil lines, paste, gel, paint.

Through this simplification, we can see him working toward the final merging of figure and ground.

In this installation the artist provided a ground in which the viewers present experience is extended and tested through a deconstruction of spatial ordering allowing the viewer to become a self - observing figure in a disorientating ground.

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

Foregrounding their conditions of presentation, ownership, reception, and provenance, artworks, artifacts, and their passage through time and narrative discourses are played off the figure of the cloud chamber — an early twentieth century device that used water vapor to mark the movement of subatomic particles, and which laid the ground for the study of particle physics by photographing the patterns these movements produced.

The artists in this exhibition thematize this negotiation (between figure and ground, so to speak) through incessant material investigation, play and inquiry.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

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.

Many of the «sculptures» included often operated with or within more - two dimensional components — I am thinking here of Jon Kessler's Exodus (2016) and Evolution (2017), configurations far more about the transmutation of object into digital image than it is about the materiality of things; Rafa Esparaza's Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field (2017), a weighty and timely installation on labor, colonialization and identity read through adobe bricks; or Raúl de Nieves» beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end (2016), an installation of five ornate, grotesque, and vibrantly hued sculptures set against a backdrop of eighteen colorful acetate sheets made to resemble stained glass windows.

Referencing weavers and painters alike — from Anni Albers to Bridgett Riley — Bittman carves out a shared space between weaving and painting, drawing them together through an exploration of figure - ground.

May 8 — August 5 Tang Change: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful Through December 30 Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground

In addition to gouache and metal leaf, they exploit Perspex as figure, ground and frame, a material to be seen and seen through, literally as well as visually projecting and receding.

The integration of shapes through overlapping or interpenetrations blurs spatial distinctions, so that there is almost no sense of the image versus the background (what art historians call «figure and ground»).

There doesn't appear to be much snow on the ground in Texas or Louisiana, and with the forecast of mild temperatures, it doesn't figure to last much longer there, if it even makes it through the day Thursday.