Sentences with phrase «flatness which»

The flatness which characterizes Yanai's paintings is used in certain visual - motor psychological tests as an indicator to characterize the inability to contain emotional events.

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.

DC Your paintings are resolutely flat, And yet that flatness which unifies the work seems to be at odds with the kind of fragmentary dynamic space collage allows.

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It is to be noted that it is this type of geometry which dominates PR IV, 3, with its concern for the formal definitions of straightness and flatness.

It is not so easy a matter to perform this task aright; to stand in the presence of God and to speak in his name, with that plainness and simplicity, that seriousness and gravity, that zeal and concern, which the business requires; to accommodate ourselves to the capacity of the common people without disgusting our more knowing hearers by the insipid flatness of our discourse; to excite and awaken drowsy souls, without terrifying and disturbing more tender consciences; to bear home the convictions of sin, without the appearance of some personal reflection; in a word, to approve ourselves unto God as workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.21

What's different now is that the ennui, the flatness, the lack of passion which has afflicted Miliband's leadership is becoming replaced with a quickening of the pulse as the general election approaches.

For example, the quantity Omega, which quantifies the flatness of space, should equal 1.

R. H. Dicke first explained the flatness problem in his 1969 Jayne Lecture, which was later published in «Gravitation and the Universe» for the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia in 1970.

This «flatness» is due to low intramuscular pressure, which is associated with a catabolic (muscle wasting) state.

It didn't impact my waist at all or pp weight loss, I don't think, though I'm fairly happy with my stomach - flatness now (which finally flattened out to the point that I was happy around 10 - 11 months).

And the film's monochromatic quality and frequently static scenes give it a sort of flatness; I found myself often distracted by trying to figure out which voice actor was which, rather than following the story.

«A lot of the colors we used came out of the initial discussion Greta and I had of what Sacramento felt like,» said Jones, «which was lots of green, yellows, pinks, golds, pastel colors, like what you see in Wayne Thiebaud paintings, which really capture the color and the flatness and the beauty that is specific to Northern California.

The flatness of the motor allows for a very low hood - which provides for a large windshield.

Charging the battery pack from full flatness takes 3.5 hours, after which the Twizy should run for between 34 and 72 miles depending on how vigorously you drive it.

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.»

Defining Good Writing (Possibly Sententious) Cheryl Klein is «rolling our eyes at the flatness of the prose, characters, and plot construction,» which has prompted her to post about «and yet we just keep reading on.»

The basic gambit of Site: Brooklyn's carefully curated show Between the Color is that a renewed engagement with color will allow abstract art to escape the flatness to which it has been confined.

It was reducible to something that uneducated people could repeat to each other, which was flatness.

The «integrity of the picture plane» is intact in these paintings, which, in their modernist pedigree, navigate between flatness and intimations of depth.

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.

Formalist critics, especially Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994), made much of perceived flatness as one of the qualities through which modernist painting distinguished its claims on our attention from those of all the other contemporaneous arts.

Called «Rendered Memory» paintings, these pieces — which he first debuted at Boesky East earlier this year — consist of a digital rendering of a gallery space which the 27 - year - old artist «singes» onto linen with a laser printer and then paints over with translucent brushstrokes that confuse flatness and perspective.

He had been working all of his life in a style he evolved as a young man which at the same time was changing the face of the art world: Abstract Expressionism (characterized briefly as a form of painting which emphasized gesture in an effort to define the flatness and realness of color and shape as a more integrated realization of the painted space).

He shed effortlessly the backing of Greenberg by rejecting the theology of post-painterly abstraction, which was that the colour should lie plainly on the surface emphasising the flatness of the canvas and eschewing illusion.

The difficulty that besets the post-Cubist and abstract painter is that of overcoming the essentially decorative inertia into which his picture always risks falling because of its flatness.

Dating from the 1970s to 2005, the 11 quilts included in the Souls Grown Deep Foundation gift / purchase triple the High's existing holdings of works by these celebrated women artists and demonstrate the incredible legacy of their artistic production, which parallels many of the experiments with color, flatness and abstraction associated with postwar American painting.

Without a visual anchor, viewers can only drift within the spaces in which grid and cross intermingle, uncomfortably caught between two - and three - dimensional spaces where boundaries between pictorial depth and surface flatness begin to get fuzzy.

Yet in his non ‐ sketching creation process, he not only removes the steadiness and flatness of photographs, but also revert the reality of the scene and the vividness of the material, which expresses his personal pursuit to the figure.

Not even the flatness of the canvas restricts the liveliness of these abstract paintings, which all have an added dimension thanks to the crystal clear sheen and highly polished brightness derived from a coating of resin over the acrylic paints.

8 Rauschenberg's primary example of such layering, as put forward in his manifesto - like 1963 photo - essay «Random Order,» was «a dirty or foggy window,» the translucency of which at one and the same time emphasizes the flatness of the glass and allows one to see through it into depth.9 As though looking through a veil, such a situation «mak [es] what is outside appear to be projected on to the window plane.»

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

The visceral gestures of Abstract Expressionism gave way to the flatness of Pop and the hard edges of Minimalism, which in turn stirred a generation of «Post-Minimalists» to reject clean forms and tidy material delineations, opting instead for handicrafts and organic aesthetics.

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.

Here, the artist struggles with the effable and ineffable experiences of subjectivity, the perpetual schism between the flatness of surfaces that enable linguistic communication (whether screen or page) and the more sensuous and palpable dimensions of desire and the body, which rarely find form in language.

[3] Flatness of the picture plane came from the evolution of modernism which started with Manet, and was of utmost importance to Greenberg, who observed it as the unique and exclusive pictorial trait.

The effect of this ambitious new collection of works is one of disarming sincerity and puzzling nuance, in which the inherent flatness of photography gives way to an altogether more bodily, humorous, unironic approach to picture - making.

Transferring the information from one medium to another also impacts the space; the canvases take on a hybrid quality in which flatness and depth coexist, or become compressed and more difficult to detect.

«It was the stressing... of the ineluctable flatness of the support that remained most fundamental in the processes by which pictorial art criticized and defined itself under Modernism.

These developments, Greenberg argued, freed color and pictorial flatness and non-depictive space for a sort of self - display toward which he believed modern painting had long striven.

That is an entirely bogus claim that may appeal to the literary minded, but has no basis in the reality of painting.so, whatever may be said about the Abstract Expressionists, at least they had the guts to go all out for an abstraction which leaves naturalistic suggestions behind, and uninhibitedly embraces the full potential of painting to create space out of its» fulgent or fuliginous flatness».

Unlike traditional watercolourists, Otto - Knapp paints on canvas and linen, which allows her to repeatedly wash away and rebuild layers of paint, lending her delicate images a distinctive flatness and luminosity.

Applaudably, Michael Werner has culled an interesting and varied collection of Peyton's works, none of which harbor the flatness of some of her well - circulated paintings, which can be heavy in paint and thin in complexity.

But it is easy to forget the picture plane as a factor in the organisation of abstract painting given the convenience of material flatness, which will anchor any number of diverse elements without too much bother.

The installation is lined by her façade paintings, the scale and flatness of which recall theatre sets.

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.

One problem, however, as Barnaby Wright points out in his essay, «Jasper Johns — Regrets» (2014), which is included in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Jasper Johns: Regrets, at the Courtauld Gallery, London (September 12 — December 14, 2014), is that Johns has never shown any affinity with «the populist imagery of Andy Warhol or the «objective» flatness of Frank Stella.»

As is typical for paintings from this period, the present work is characterized by the colliding of flatness with the illusion of spatial depth: while the folds in the tablecloth, modulation of the oranges and the cast shadows articulate Hockney's eye for veracity and imply three - dimensionality, the broad, simplified brushstrokes with which the gladiolus and the green backdrop are rendered essentially flatten the composition.

The works demonstrate the incredible legacy of these women's artistic production, which parallels many of the experiments with color, flatness and abstraction associated with postwar American painting.

The central figures are energized by the flat exterior, which compresses the female characters to seem kinetic in the still format and explosive in their enveloping flatness.

Thus began a change in painting philosophy, moving away from the style of flatness for which Stella was known, toward new explorations of space and depth — a transformation that would be integral to the painter's evolution.