Sentences with word «flatness»

At their March meeting, Fed officials generally agreed that the current degree of flatness of the yield curve was not unusual by historical standards,» according to the meeting minutes.

MWR: Opticality seems to be a bad word in post-modernist circles, because it harkens back to the Greenbergian supremacy of flatness in painting.

When Alex Katz plays with flatness he manipulates color to still come alive, vibrating and filling the space between the viewer and the canvas, establishing a new sense of space.

Through their use of destructive methods of production, be it burning, cutting or nailing, the artists challenge the notion of flatness as a condition of painting to give way to a new creative freedom by opening up the picture plane to space, light and movement.

Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1974) made great claims in those days for flatness as the defining property of modernist painting.

(Just take a trip around NADA, or the Lower East Side to see full - on flatness in action.)

The inflationary big bang was proposed by Alan H. Guth in a paper titled «A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problem» in Physical Review, D, Vol.

While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife, Ada.

Permitting himself the expressivity, Schnabel balanced technical and sentimental by avoiding flatness which he achieved by incorporating unconventional materials as black velvet, weathered tarpaulins, and cardboard.

Piene is inching away from flatness in monochrome, but Pol Bury from Belgium has a grid of cuts in his slowly rotating black disk.

There is an uncanny flatness at work, of a piece with recent graphic design and directorial forms of photography.

Unfortunately, the lack of online game and a certain flatness of gameplay make NBA Jam only a good game and not a masterpiece of the genre.

The asymmetric canvases play with illusion, confronting Stella ‟ s previous emphasis on flatness while continuing his career - long exploration of space and volume in both painting and sculpture.

Although the works utilize architecture, «they are not about flatness as a starting point,» according to the artist; rather, they are «the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.»

With influences from Japanese anime and manga, the artist's early works use precise lines to outline the figure of the subject, creating a sharp contrast with the background, both through flatness and color juxtaposition.

Trying «to join modernist flatness with a street art vocabulary in an attempt at finding value in the idea of painting,» Hendrick paints on garbage produced by art institutions, including discarded paintings by undergraduates.

He constantly plays with formal notions of surface flatness, figure - ground relationships and compositional symmetry.

Some of that came from the movie's low - key visual design, but the general flatness of late Seventies film stock was a bigger culprit.

In his recent photographic series, IMG (2012 --RRB-, Heishman creates minimalist glyphs made out of colored tape that generate a slippage between visual flatness and real - space dimensionality.

Considering that U.S. high school graduation rates are also up significantly over this period — and thus a greater portion of students are reaching the twelfth grade — these are mildly encouraging trends, despite the overall flatness of the lines.

The stripes and notches of the Copper and Aluminum works conspire to create relief - like mirages of projecting and receding planes, something the proponents of absolute flatness in painting — who relied on Stella as a touchstone — certainly did not have in mind.

There are shifting gestalts in Rana Begum's painted relief, No. 317, the actual three - dimensionality of the piece, combined with the movement of the viewer results in multiple variations of form, whereas in Charley Peters» fascinating painting Plexus we are presented with the illusion of flatness within an illusory three dimensional space.

Working over a variety of formats and mediums, Fishman, in a new series of works currently on view at Cheim & Read, defies the inherent flatness in painting with wide, energetic brushstrokes and overlapping angular forms.

It also allowed him to achieve his objective of reinforcing flatness and making a work as two - dimensional as possible.

Layering flat passages of pinkish gray, he teases the literal flatness of the canvas.

Takeshi Murata also collapses spatial depth and material flatness using computer generated graphics to create digitized still lifes.

Flatness gives way to illusory space, background motifs jump in scale as they move centrestage.

(both ingredients are crucial to avoiding flatness and may be why the texture was off — texture should be crispy yet soft JUST like a real cookie!)

One's depth perception of the space is completely altered by the contrast of white walls in the front of the gallery; in the fuchsia area, the shadows have melted into the streaks of the painted walls, creating flatness when viewed from a distance, while the white portion of the room seems unusually larger.

Swept system for total flatness; maintain constant levels through proper balancing of the amplifiers and nodes according to technical specifications.

They're small to medium - sized, but charged with energy and humor, reflecting the artist's interest in interchangeability «between painting and sculpture, front and back, an object and its surroundings... moments of seeming flatness... negative space, the pieces» irregular shapes... to create a disoriented object.»

Pulped construction paper supplies the almost Post-Impressionist color fields that defy flatness by their texture and optical activity alone.

While Arning's «UIA: Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract» will address contemporary reworkings of modernist ideals and his «Painting: A Love Story» will explore gestural pleasures, Daderko's «Rites of Spring» and «Outside the Lines» (after which the larger project is named) will look past painting's ineluctable flatness via the work of an irreverent progeny of emerging artists from Michele Abeles to Abigail DeVille.

The paintings of the early 80s are quieter in terms of their sculptural dimension, tending back towards flatness, and yet the scribbly, jittery outlines of their shapes possess a comparable sensation of movement to those of 1971, like tectonic plates that have just begun to rub and unsettle.

Characteristic of his early work are compositions embracing flatness and collage.

The apparent flatness of the Phillips curve together with evidence that inflation expectations may have softened on the downside and the persistent undershooting of inflation relative to our target should be important considerations in our policy deliberations.

If you like flatness, choose organic birdseye wipes or velour wipes.

A deposit of high - density underground rock, or an undersea mountain, is utterly invisible — yet they, too, skew the geoid away from perfect flatness.

There's a painterly affiliation with the so - called flatness of form in Alex Katz's research, together with a Warholian legacy of image making.

(That's a seemingly necessary evil when delving into this heady subject, though the aesthetic flatness offers a critical remove.)

After Matisse we very quickly reached a point where flatness became the litmus test for purity in painting.

The one - point perspective and intentional flatness used by D'Arcangelo allows for a democratisation of the picture plane, removing any hierarchical elements within the landscape: road, pylon and sky are all equal.»

Recent Exhibitions 2013 — Against Nature — Wave Hill, NY 2013 — Trouble Every Day — Vogt Gallery, NY 2013 — If color then also dimension; if flatness then texture, etc. — LMCC: Building 110, NY.

The simple idea that art moves toward flatness and abstraction leads, for Rose, into Minimalism, and «ABC Art» is often considered the first landmark essay on Minimalist art.