Sentences with phrase «formal properties»

Contemporary artists continue to explore visual perception by using many of the same formal properties as in the 1960s combined with new technologies and materials.

But it's the way the work's formal properties interact with its high - concept content that makes it really mind - bending.

In addition, he appreciates tobacco's unique formal properties.

Abstract Art is a term that describes any art which does not represent visual reality, placing an emphasis instead on formal properties such as pattern, shape, line and gestural marks.

This new series of drawings, titled Aspects, were completed in Maine in the summer of 2014 and evince Tuttle's interest in formal properties of line and scale.

Art works by Buckley, Holme and Hudson act as interchange stations between painting and sculpture, with multiple references to real and abstract space and ruminations on formal properties such as transparency, opacity, colour, shape and line.

With formal properties that bear occasional surface resemblance to Constructivism and modernist mark - making, these artists peel back the layers of art history and derail our associative connections to the past.

In the process we «put aside our immediate sensations» and recognize that «what is left is composed of our general ideas of the abstract formal properties of things;... the abstract mathematical ideas» (IM 5).

Even though the locals don't live on the Kauai land, they have a claim to it thanks to the Hawaiian notion of «kuleana» — a custom, reflected in law, recognizing traditional rights to ancestral land even in the absence of deeds or formal property records.

For the type of a particular relation is definable in terms of purely formal properties of the relation.

Let's call this the third move in videogame ontology: the suggestion that games exist when players occupy them and give them life by reallocating formal properties according to their own particular personal and play contexts.

Nearby Thomas Scheibitz's Casting, a beautiful large - scale painting of a landscape in a palette of bright blue, gray and white with accents of red, purple, and green, is a lovely example of how the artist pares down the recognizable image to its barest formal properties, then expands upon it, bridging the line between abstraction and figuration.

The selection of still - life as a subject, the intersecting and interpenetration of forms and shadows, the shifting alternation between background and foreground derive from cubism, while the strong formal properties of negative shapes and the long, irregularly broken lines and patterned decoration of the drawings reflect the work of Matisse whose draughtsmanship had provided inspiration for Warhol's earlier work.

The reliance on secondary sources sets these images at one remove, an impression that is heightened by the graceful formal properties of Tuymans» distinctive style.

Under Tworkov's instruction, Wool mastered the basic principles of three - dimensional modeling and other formal properties of design — a proper artistic training that's become more apparent as Wool's paintings progressed.

Elements that are key to the Internet nowadays and form the background to The Greater Cloud are: distributed forms of collectivity, the sharing and distribution of knowledge, openness of information, circulation of digital material as well as formal properties like connectivity, performativity or 3D programming elements.

In her large - scale sculptures and installations, Tara Donovan multiplies common disposable objects until they become capacious clusters with totally new formal properties.

Abstraction is often seen as a modernist way to create an autonomous object, an object that does not ostensibly refer to the external world but functions instead by means of its own formal properties.

Cast in varied, bright colors and presented in the gallery's storefront window on glass shelves, the Brancusi-esque formal properties of these quotidian objects reveal themselves; a «pure,» universal form which, when endlessly repeated via mass production, is intended to ensure brand loyalty.

While many works in Lauder's collection display dramatic formal properties such as intense contrasts of light and dark, they all convey her profound interest in humanity and suggest a highly personal approach to this most modern of media.

Challenging the rationalism and universal objectivity of early abstraction, the artists associated with this movement sought a means of expression beyond an object's immutable formal properties, and embraced a phenomenological, at times participatory, approach in their efforts to expand the vocabulary of sculpture.

DE: I think he was trying to make a bridge between sense - awareness and these more formal properties by saying that in sense - awareness you are always aware of — can I say, a spread?

Greenberg consistently admired such formal properties as a «hard - won unity,» but argued that art criticism can never have precise criteria for judgment, in part because artistic «content remains indefinable, unparaphrasable, undiscussable.»

Greek existence came into being through an act of aesthetic distancing of nature and the gods, which freed the Greek to become aware of the formal properties of the world.

CC: In the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge he tried by axioms to single out by their formal properties spatially maximal events, and then in the note he says he found this was impossible, and therefore he had to single them out by a different means, namely durations defined by their relation to some percipient event.

We can also ask, What are the formal properties of the relations?

A formal property appraisal was done after the counseling and came in at $ 530,000 - 20 % less than Dad's estimate.

Twisty Little Passages, for instance, defines the formal properties of interactive fiction within a historical context, which allows for an understanding of the evolution of interactive fiction as an art form.