Sentences with phrase «of figure and ground»

(There's an almost Escher - like oscillation of figure and ground in many of her works.)

By then a signature manner of working had been arrived at: imagery pitched to a towering scale; terse juxtapositions of figure and ground; and surfaces that were scabby, tenuous, and abraded.

Often inverting the canvas in order to do away with the traditional hierarchy of figure and ground that lies at the heart of conventional representational painting, Morley's work strives for objectivity.

By utilizing negative space and alternating between a sense of representing a discrete object or a cutaway section of the ground, he re-examines formal ideas of figure and ground relationships and the image shifts between flat areas of modern colour and illusory depth.

The exact correspondence of figure and ground in his work also challenged the traditional distinction between an object and its depiction.

Together, these bodies of work also upturn Modernist paintings» formal explorations of figure and ground, color field and representation.

The artist continues to push the relationship of figure and ground to the point of minimizing the ground.

The studio and its contents serve as both backdrop and creative apparatus coalescing in an eroticized, chaotic disorientation of figure and ground.

A picture such as «Ford» (2013) displays the leapfrogging of figure and ground that has an ancestry in the work of Jack Youngerman and of Franz Kline (1910 - 1962), a reference point for Tran also.

On this stage, the action happens in the future anterior: the work for Art in General will have materialized as a double obstruction, via an interruption of the normal cleaning process in a fish tank at NY Aquarium in Coney Island, leading to an accumulation of algae on both the «screen» and the transparent polyhedron, and the invisibility of figure and ground in the «flooded museum».

The title is a play on the schematics of modernist visuality of figure and ground, in this sense it is a tautological text in that it illustrates the exhibition's conceptual framework when the letters in the title organize themselves into «formas sobre fondo» [forms on a ground].

Through this simplification, we can see him working toward the final merging of figure and ground.

He extends the physical range of traditional oil and canvas with spray enamels and resin additives to enable pronounced juxtapositions of figure and ground.

In his work, the eroticized body stands out assertively from its surroundings, rejecting the integration of figure and ground that characterizes the modernist tradition from Impressionism through Abstract Expressionism.

Since her successful inaugural exhibition in April 2016, Anna Leonhardt has continued her investigation into the unsettled dichotomy of figure and ground in painting.

For them, too, the mix let painting stop telling obvious stories — to become abstract, if you will — without losing concern for the shifting identities of figure and ground.

In 2018, The Figure and the Ground sets the stage by thinking about representation through the formal dichotomy of figure and ground.

Feitelson makes for an interesting intervention that draws viewers» attention to Alois's and Elise's inventive ways to toy with the perception of figure and ground, color and shape.

Thereafter, abstract painters sought to make involving pictures without images, but the schism of figure and ground on which imagery depends continued to pose problems.

«Whether drawing and collaging on individual paper panels or creating a mural on the floor - to - ceiling wall, Schliebener combines the additive qualities of drawing, reductive acts of cutting, and nuances of figure and ground to explore the ambiguities of gender,» notes curator John Chaich.

While seemingly unrelated to the lessons of color and composition taught in Josef Albers's legendary Basic Design course, these works, as she explained, are firmly grounded in his teachings in their use of unexpected materials and their elision of figure and ground.

At Theodore: Art, Eric Brown, in «Punctuate,» examines the tension of figure and ground in paintings that are fun and funny — caprices of 1960s Color Field art. 7 At David & Schweitzer, the esteemed Brenda Goodman finds expression in the working and reworking of her materials, with etched - over abstractions that read as psychological portraiture.8

But his idea of the figure and ground and the way he integrated them, I thought was interesting.

Works by painters Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, and Frank Stella clarify or confuse elements of figure and ground by redefining the possibilities of the shaped canvas and how it can contain color and gesture.

Not exact matches

While a lot of public places like airports and malls have begun to install charging stations to prevent us being tethered to ground - level outlets, it's time we figure out this wireless charging business.

The family suffered a major loss this year with the death of their matriarch, Marilyn Thomson, who had been a grounding figure for her three children and, in many ways, inspired their ambition.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

To figure out how we got here and what's next, this week we're talking to coworking pioneer David Singer of Grind.

Taylor writes: «God is not the ground of being that forms the foundation of all things but the figure constructed to hide the originary abyss from which everything emerges and to which all returns.

Often, the journey of figure out our beliefs for ourselves starts with going back to the very beginning, abandoning the things we accepted as true and rebuilding from the ground up.

By citing the authority of both passages, the Second Vatican Council sought to affirm universality and particularity simultaneously and to ground both of them in the figure of Jesus.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

Especially when those on the stoney ground are saying they aren't going to try to figure it out, when you know the value of taking the time to figure it out... and they write it off as BS, or believing in «Fred Flintstone».

Now, there's no exact science to figuring out which areas of the world God hates the most — though you're not quite at Toledo's level yet — however, I do think that Tuesday's earthquake suggests that God's current hatred for you — as in, the Northeast corridor between Richmond and Boston — is slightly greater than his hatred for say, whatever current spot of ground Vladimir Putin is standing on.

I am not a fan of turkey by any means but I am on a healthy kick and sick of chicken so I figured ground turkey chili would be flavorful enough for me to withstand it being turkey and OH MY did this recipe NOT dissappoint!!!

AUS / NZ: Lion Nathan H1 readies ground for healthy FY Poor weather and rising costs have failed to hinder Lion Nathan, which has posted a healthy set of figures for the first half of its financial yea... read more

AUS / NZ: Lion Nathan H1 readies ground for healthy FY Poor weather and rising costs have failed to hinder Lion Nathan, which has posted a healthy set of figures for the first half of its financial yea

How long did it take for someone to figure out how to take green coffee beans, roast and then grind them into a dreamy, comforting and absolutely addictive cup of coffee?

Morgan might have made for an easily pokeable figure of fun last term, but the Jamaica international has stood tall above the rest this season to block, grunt and grind his team to the Premier League title — lest we forget, straight after back - to - back summer international tournaments in the Gold Cup and Copa America.

We took a walk around the block, and when he cried, I decided to try to help him figure it out instead of letting it grind on me.

Just when you and your partner have established common ground on the basics of raising a baby, here comes a new, hot - button issue to figure out: how you'll discipline your almost - toddler.

Next he'll figure out how to prop himself up on his arms and hold his chest off the ground, sort of a mini-pushup.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

[161] Blair and his supporters sought to reform the party by further expunging leftist elements and taking it to the centre ground, thus creating «New Labour», with Blairite Peter Mandelson asserting that hard left figures like Livingstone represented «the enemy» of reform.

If they can opt out of the collective bargaining agreement and be on their own to figure out wages and benefits, as well as legal protection, then we may have common ground.

The casualty figure was confirmed by ground forces who subsequently consolidated on the gains of the air effort to pursue and inflict further casualty on the fleeing wounded members of the terrorist group.»

Six days on from the cataclysmic result of the US election and there are still some who cling to the hope that Donald Trump will soon turn into a moderate, centre ground Republican figure.

Tarfia please do not make assumptions about my knowledge base and, if possible, try and base your statements with evidence rather than opinion and what you think — take a leaf out of John Ps responses — he gives us some figures to back up his claims — for example — how do you know how many people occupy the centre ground — what evidence have you got.

If we apply these figures to each constituency, then we can see that both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would have gained ground, compared with the actual result of the election.

The underlying figures on economic competence and who would make the best leader also show the Conseratives gaining ground — Labour now have only a 3 point lead on which party would be better at running the economy well and Blair is only 1 point ahead of Cameron on who would make the best Prime Minister.