Sentences with phrase «figure ground relationships»

Gestural brushstrokes impart physicality yet glide weightlessly over smooth surfaces as figure ground relationships oscillate and conflate.

Sometimes I rely on a landscape structure and other times a play between shapes and lines, focusing on figure ground relationships.

The cacophony of color is set in motion by the urgency of the crowding toward the frontal picture plane, the obscurity of the figure ground relationship and the entanglement of form.

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The researchers reasoned that if the relationship between the early - arriving P - waves and the later, ground - shaking S - waves could be figured out, a tiny window would open for predicting quakes.

His use of subtle variation continually questions the figure / ground relationship, making his paintings seem at once two - dimensional and sculptural.

Sharing a formal affinity with these patterns, Keegan's photographs possess a stable figure - ground relationship akin to that of the panels, and like the lattice, contain and collect, like a city's sieve.

These androgynous and perplexingly blank heads are the common denominator for Mr. McKimens, who boldly experiments with formal painting aspects like color, line, volume and figure - ground relationships.

Anderson's work is a playful investigation of figure - ground and the relationship between positive and negative space.

Throughout the 1950s Accardi reduced her palette to black and white to explore the relationship between figure and ground.

The resulting interplay between colors confuses the conventional relationship between figure and ground, a technique adapted from the Impressionists that also channels de Kooning.

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

Kelly's shaped canvases may concern themselves with pictorial issues — say, the relationship between figure and ground — but they do so in a way that denies painting's metaphorical capabilities.

In many of your paintings the foreground and background together create an all - over atmospheric field, while in your recent paintings, large star shapes become significant points of focus constructing much more of a figure / ground relationship.

Think of an Ellsworth Kelly: an abstract consideration of the relationship between figure and ground; a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception; an exploration of the relationship of painting and wall, sculpture and space, viewer and work.

«Out of Sight» then proceeds chronically to present art from 1962 to 1978 and concludes by exhibiting four wooden sculptures and a series of seven vivid painting from her Days of the Week series by way of revealing Herrera's continued experimentation with figure / ground relationships and the architectural underpinnings of many of her compositions.

These androgynous and perplexingly blank heads are the common denominator in a diverse show where McKimens experiments boldly with formal painting aspects like color, line, volume and figure - ground relationships.

Gueorguieva uses line and color to intensify spatial ambiguities, undermining the relationship between figure and ground.

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.

In seeking to reinvigorate and advance the language of action painting, Yossifor concentrates the «action» near the center of each work while allowing it to become more diffuse around the edges, establishing a figure - ground relationship.

Feldman's works are self - aware in their geometric precision, as complex figure / ground relationships are rendered.

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.

Similar to Alois's threads of yarn that never touch but always interact when meeting the eye, the sliver of space between each boulder allows the figure and ground relationship to oscillate, creating this ameba visual sensation.

They play with the relationship between figure and ground, positive and negative space, fixity and movement.

They're about painting — the figure - ground relationship, structure and organization.

Rising out of the paintings» colourful midst, the portrait of this emblematic bird interrupts the figure - ground relationship, where extinction and reinvention coalesce.

Effectively staining the canvas with paint, the technique subverted the figure - ground relationship associated with painting by blurring the boundary between form and surface altogether.

The coupling of clear form with an at times confused figure - ground relationship is a hallmark of John Phillips's oils.

The new paintings blur that figure / ground relationship as forms with gracefully undulating perimeters press well beyond the constraints of the paintings?

His work emphasized the emotionally expressive potential of color, modulating the figure - ground relationships in his paintings in a method he referred to as the push and pull, a technique similar to the one that put Jackson Pollock, Hofmann's close friend, on the map of modern art.

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.

Amy Feldman abstracts geometric shapes into semi-recognizable forms to manipulate figure - ground relationships.

These new prints, created during her first collaboration with Wingate Studio, are a radical departure for Moser in her use of a highly charged, vibrantly saturated color palette that reverses the figure / ground relationship with which she typically works.

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.

Deconstructing the relationship between figure and ground, Richter embraces the contingency of his medium, enjoying the chance effects of the spontaneous yet confident application of paint.

Sharing an immersive figure - ground relationship, paintings by Elsworth Kelly or Mark Rothko can be all - consuming whilst Nintendo screens, as the artist explained «allow you to build new vectors of activity and anticipate space, as the eye and the mind move off screen or out of the picture plane».

They are also more revealing of figure / ground relationships.

These are just a few of the things that struck me about work in the exhibition: Feeley was intensely interested in a confounded figure - ground relationship; he was able to economically synthesize the formal and the comic; he was attentive to the erotic; his work clearly stands apart from Color Field painting.»

The process involved, as I see it, certain fundamental transformations of the inherited manner: the introduction of intense color into a starkly reserved and ascetic style, producing a peculiarly American combination of the hedonistic and the puritanical; the invention of a vocabulary of affective shapes, which, though vaguely recalling Arp's biomorphism, are distinctly personal; the use of the frame to implement ambiguities in figure - ground relationships and facilitate a new and unusual sense of scale.

Schor plays with the relationship of the figure, immense and monolithic, against the ground, delicate and ephemeral.

Yellow Piece (1966), the artist's first shaped canvas, represents Kelly's pivotal break with the rectangular support and his redefinition of painting's figure / ground relationship.

She has also added new ways of applying paint, with a vocabulary that includes impasto surfaces; preternatural forms; geometric shapes; figuration; abstraction; paint dripped from a bottle; compressed space; unstable figure - ground relationships; drawing in paint..

Riffing on these binaries, other works show figure / ground relationships, the looping interplay between image and text, between the muse and the artist, etc..

The walls of the space will be treated like a collage sheet and furnished with a constellation of paintings and collages focusing on the formal relationship of - human - figure and pictorial ground.

In Whitten's piece, Horne's role in shifting views of African American femininity is mirrored by a shift in the role of the medium in establishing the figure / ground relationship.

Rather than solely addressing the figure in painting, Mothernism challenges Greenbergian ideals of «flatness» by inviting the viewer into her painting - as - installation, a figure / ground relationship so upended as to become participatory, or relational.

He employs multiple approaches to the figure / ground relationship, recalling his personal history of painting.

His pencil studies at this time also suggest an unusual preoccupation with the relationship of figures to their ground planes.

Meg Atkinson's work explores figure / ground relationships by juxtaposing Ad Reinhardt - like «disinterested» abstraction with text and / or organic forms.

She experimented with equalizing large colored shapes, flipping and negating the relationship between figure and ground.

Figure / ground relationships (underpainting and overpainting), various modes of abstraction, and a fusion of positive and negative imagery, conjure up contemplative and glowing images.