Sentences with phrase «inky black surface»

The entire front of the tablet is a bezel-less sheet of glass and like all tablets reflections and outdoor use can be a problem, but we love the fact that with the display turned off, it's just an inky black surface.

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On the surface, the black inky lines and rich primary colours fit in perfectly with traditional ideas and tropes, but look a little further and things become rather more transgressive — the women on the cards are proudly holding phallic objects, louchely smoking a cigarette, wielding a bloody sword, legs akimbo in suspenders or with prosthetic limbs.

Here Rauschenberg's skillful use of black resulted in an austere, inky surface that plays with notions of expression and gesture, challenging the very idea of what makes a painting a painting.

The productive tensions between an abstract expressionist engagement with surface, paint, and gesture and a more decisive shift into the ambiguous terrain between painting, collage, and assemblage find their fullest expression in Untitled [black painting with portal form], specifically in the way the composition is structured around (and then decisively proceeds from) a tonal, monochromatic center: a flat, inky, double - truck sheet of newspaper.

Even when he titles one of these acrylic on canvas works Serious and Judicious, the dazzling whites, slate greys and varied blacks (from matte to inky pools) skate lightly across the surface of sensation, leaving the dismal depths of the sublime to those doom - and - gloom purveyors, his lifelong friends Franz Kline (who wrote incisively about Hendler's work) or the glum Philip Guston.

In Arrival, shots of a black - gloved hand brushing the surface of an alien craft showed four distinct fingers, while the deeper blacks of the LG B7 display turned it into an inky black blob.