Sentences with phrase «flatness when»

Certainly, Warhol — who relied on photographs for his subject matter — is acknowledging Greenberg's insistence on painting's flatness when he famously states:

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When it comes to the universe, «flatness» refers to the fate of light beams travelling large distances parallel to each other.

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

I am an artist and when I transport my art, the flatness and sheer size of the trunk plus fold - down seats are great.

Some of the most discussed books in the BookPage office this year include Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things, whose black characters have been called out for their flatness, and young adult novel When We Was Fierce, the publication of which was delayed by Candlewick after receiving criticism for its made - up «street dialect.»

It refers to the fact that when we make a statement like «I think the Earth is flat,» we can be wrong about Earth's flatness, but we can not be wrong about the «I,» the subjective self that is making the assertion.

When Clement Greenberg asserted the essence of painting flatness, I think he was off the mark by being both too literal and too narrow, and this gave formalism a bad name which it didn't deserve.

Instead of resting on top of the canvas, the paint in this image stained the canvas — a significant feat in an era when avant - garde artists were fascinated with the flatness of painting.

Many will remember the late 1960s as the time when the modernist fever finally broke, when the ever - narrowing pursuit of flatness and optical purity was revealed as a blind alley at best, or a whitewashing fantasy at worst.

They hark back to a time when flatness was abstract painting's primary goal, and the physical facts of the medium were starting to be endlessly parsed — beginning with shaped canvases — in a process that continues today.

Despite their avowed differences, here is a moment in the mid-1960s when Greenberg, Stella, and Warhol all agree with each other on a central issue: the flatness of the picture plane must be upheld.

I like the visual flatness of my works when viewed from afar, but, upon closer observation, they reveal hundreds of stories and mysteries.

Al Loving was an artist who drew on sources as varied as free jazz, his family's quilting traditions and the history of Modern painting when creating abstracted works that riffed on color, form and flatness.

There was a time in abstract painting's past when the canons of American abstraction decreed flatness as the one defining element of painting: the point at which it was purely itself and not partaking of other arts such as sculpture.

But full - on flatness could be a misreading of how we actually interact with screens: looking at emails all day might seem like a very flat life, but when you're roaming the halls of a video game, you can become fully immersed.

Throughout the exhibition, I kept thinking about flatness — how even three - dimensional screwheads can look planar when added atop plexi.

«You can understand her paintings when you go down there,» she explained, «because of the flatness» (H. Schulhof, interviewed by L. Philips, «Conversation with Hannelore Schulhof,» The Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, New York, 2011, p. 42).

But when a swath of blue - to - silver or green - to - gray makes contact with another swatch of color, the suggestion of mountain or lake is revoked and we're made to see the flatness of the canvas again, the pigment as pigment alone.

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.

Regarding flatness over this period, the Lyman and Johnson paper referenced by Judith says this: «In recent years, from 2004 to 2011, while the upper ocean is not warming, the ocean continues to absorb heat at depth (e.g., Levitus et al. 2012; von Schuckman and Le Traon 2011), here estimated at a rate of 0.56 Wm2 when integrating over 0 — 1800 m.» That 0.56 Wm2 figure is again pretty close to what the Balmeseda et al. reanalysis produces.

They have an opinion, but I could have an opinion that the world is flat because when I walk outside it looks flat to me, so I could opine the flatness of the world ad nauseam.

Even with the new boosted and saturated settings switched on, there's still a general flatness to the display that's hard to miss when compared to iPhone X. And little things I overlooked about the Note 8 — particularly the smooth feel of gesture animations thanks to iPhone X's 120Hz touch sample rate — became glaringly and distractingly obvious.