Sentences with phrase «for flatness»

One criterion for flatness is its variance (MAIN!AB33), whose square root is its standard deviation (shown on the chart itself).

You see Engelbeen, the slow long term changes — that indeed is another and more complex case — can not change the fact, that The short term changes are far to big for the flatness of the Antarctic CO2 curve to be true.

Greenberg's reductive formalism exchanged pictorial space for flatness and insisted that everything that didn't have to do with the process of painting was irrelevant and extra-pictorial or literary.

Dubbed «slacker abstraction», «provisional painting», «neo-formalism», «casualism» and «zombie formalism» (as coined by artist and critic Walter Robinson), many of the works in question share an affinity for flatness, process - based approaches, improvised gestures and, at times, a playful sense of humour.

Space figured in Cubism's reconstruction of vision, Surrealism's space of dreams, Clement Greenberg's demand for flatness, the shallow space of paint itself, the viewer's space in Minimalism, or the pretentious gallery spaces of installation art now.

«For flatness alone was unique and exclusive to pictorial art.»

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

They suggest the austerity of geometric abstraction, but without its hard edges or demands for flatness.

His best drawings combine enormous volume with a total respect for the flatness of the picture plane.

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.»

The head and block deck should be checked for flatness and it would be good to check the head bolt torques before pulling them.

Not exact matches

Here's what Ross's Commerce study says: the researchers, Anne Flatness and Chris Rasmussen, used a fairly new database compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to see who was getting the most out of NAFTA.

Thanks to the Midwest's general flatness, the region is a prime spot for tornadoes.

On a mystical level, certain sources maintain that the flatness and lack of air in matzah is a metaphor for keeping your ego in check and not getting too «puffed up» and arrogant.

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.

Because due to flatness of the bottom of bottle and the pump cap you simply have to press the nozzle's head for taking out the baby wash using one hand.

For Brachycephaly (broad flatness across the back of the head), alternate sides to encourage equal time on both sides of the head.

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

So, it's funny to think of returning to flatness aboard the International Space Station, but this outpost currently houses flatworms for research.

A planetary system has to be almost perfectly planar for multiple planets to transit — Lissauer compared the astonishing flatness of the Kepler 11 system to a scaled - up vinyl LP.

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.

I refrigerated the dough for half hour before baking (as I always do with cookies to avoid flatness), and for some reason they still flattened out into a pancake the moment I took them out of the oven!

In «Digging for Fire,» Swanberg forges diverse elements into a unity that retains loose ends, that keeps the foreground and the background together in what may look like a deceptive flatness.

By balancing its party - minded ethic with a climactic test (albeit a crammed - for one), Road Trip winds up being a touch more college - comprehensive than the average kegger - comedy, but humor connoisseurs will note its flatness, room temperature, and empty calories.

Spinning off from Leos Carax's piquant acceptance speech from the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics awards, quoted above, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López find in his cinema cruel paradoxes of flatness and depth, transparency and blindness, and, in Holy Motors, a hero for once that finds himself the driving center of events, only to discover «a sheer, unending Hell.»

Though it's likely the 1.85:1, 1080p transfer would have a little more snap with different / superior encoding (not to mention a broader bitrate, as the movie occupies a scant 14 GB of a 25 GB platter), I suspect a certain flatness of latitude, at least, is by design: It makes sense for Oscar to kind of float through a void.

As for the script, though, you almost suspect the film of playing arch games with the flatness of disaster movie dialogue, daring us to yawn or giggle:

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.

Still, the camaraderie between Asirpa and Sugimoto, and the well - staged action scenes more than compensate for the occasional roughness of the execution or flatness of the characterizations.

Its flatness makes it a magnet for kitesurfers and windsurfers on blowy days.

Nah, idk what it is — maybe the lighting or the textures — , but for some reason even the standard awning platforms give me this weird sense of flatness, like they are cardboard cut - outs or something.

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.»

This reveals Goodroad's knowledge of art history and places him in a Modernist context (the Nabis acknowledged flatness in painting long before Clement Greenberg made it a dictum for painting).

What Wilson has done for 20 years — works of elegant color, flatness and right angles — may seem, at first, the offspring of other art born out of geometry since the mid-20th century.

They're «bad» because their flatness leaves no room for Psyche, for «the» «spirit.»

Those hips detach themselves entirely from a critic's demand for «flatness.»

2013 Art Public: Only One Like You, curated by Nicolas Baume, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL Pataphysics (A Theoretical Exhibition), Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Body is Present, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College, NJ Hold on Her, (performance), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH All Good Things, SOMA Arts, San Francisco, CA Remainder, curated by Lauren Ross, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma The Lobby Project, City Center, New York, NY Sisyphus: Heroism of the Absurd, Arte Actual, Quito, Ecuador If Color, then also Dimension; If Flatness, then Texture, etc., LMCC at Governor's Island, New York, NY Object Focus: The Bowl, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher, Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA In Praise of Chance and Failure, Family Business, New York, NY There Is No Place Like Home, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ Only as Signal Show, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA No Sun Without Shadow, Lu Magnus, New York, NY Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Contemporary Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 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.

Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Katherine Dreier took a space across from the central New York Public Library in 1920, for what grew to include Wassily Kandinsky, the enigmatic flatness of an interior by Charles Sheeler, and that killer Stuart Davis with Champion across the center.

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.

Greenberg's belief in flatness was at the heart of an evangelical praise for American abstract painting in the middle of the 20th century.

The two - minute version, he says, would be that Greenberg favored «purity, formalism, flatness, overall design, and surface incident» in painting while Rosenberg argued for «the action of the artist on the canvas and the notion of the creative act being the most important aspect of art making, rather than the product.»

The Guggenheim retrospective is titled «The Trauma of Painting»: to those seeking literal trauma Burri is, to use another of Sweeney's phrases, «St Januarius of the Collage», whose discarded materials become flesh and blood in the presence of the living; to those looking for a more figurative trauma, he deconstructs the flatness and purity of modernist painting.

Painted from photographs but virtually avoiding the trend for photorealism, these works have a flatness that is very modern and akin to fashion illustration, yet also calls to mind the early work of Freud and Raho's big influencer, Alex Katz.

[13] We see here a number of themes that Greenberg would later emphasize as crucial for modernist painting — simplicity, flatness, the denial of illusion and the importance of the picture plane.

After a trip to Paris he began trialling means of destroying the flatness of the picture plane, adding texture to surfaces to create his catrami (tars) and muffe (moulds), and armatures to canvases for the gobbi (hunchbacks).

It's not hard to imagine the original Color Fielders, for whom abstraction and flatness were sacred, spinning in their graves.

He has always been interested in the relationship between image and allegory, and between representation and flatness, and in the work selected for «Greater New York,» he presents a series of loosely painted heads, wearing heavy glasses and sometimes smoking cigars.

He was able to do just that in this print, working from a photograph of his own painting Two Flags (1973), and bringing a genuinely unique energy and intensity to a medium known for cool flatness.