Sentences with phrase «flat planes describe»

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Ever since the 1940s, physicists have described the movement of slender structures through fluids — such as a jump rope through air — as a flat plane whose speed is limited by drag.

The standards covered in Unit 6 are: describe objects in the environment and the relative positions of these objects as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to, classify and sort, correctly name shapes, identify shapes as 2D or 3D (flat / plane or solid), analyze and compare two and three dimensional shapes, model shapes in the world by building shapes from components, and compose simple shapes to form larger shapes.

The reviewer of this show in Arts Magazine described the work as «strong non-objective shapes painted with bald simplicity on a flat - plane background, usually grey.»

Johns's work during this era, in which he sometimes juxtaposed sculptural elements with the flat planes of painting or painted directly on sculptures, were described by critic Leo Steinberg as radically new.