In addition to his sculptural and filmmaking activities, throughout his career Conner produced a number of bodies of works on paper, utilizing drawing, collage, and a method
of inkblot drawing using scored paper.
From the beginning, the Amazon / Hachette dispute has functioned as a kind
of inkblot test.
The widely cited CREDO study (Center for Research on Education Outcomes) has become somewhat
of an inkblot test in the charter - school fight.
A person's interpretation
of the inkblot can lead to a conclusion of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or borderline personality.
The strange shapes
of the inkblots or the indeterminate figures in the drawings present themselves to us in terms of definite meanings, which we unconsciously project on them.
Not exact matches
This observation is neither an endorsement
of total relativity nor a reduction
of the text to an
inkblot test.
It's a wild story that sounds more like a plot from The
Inkblot Gang and the Case
of the Lying Principal, but it's true.
Show him some accidental
inkblots, and he will conjure up all manner
of images.
Tapping the Aquifer On a hydrographic map, the Ogallala is a Rorschach
inkblot that some describe as the shape
of a mushroom, others the South American continent.
When asked to recall the order
of, say, a series
of random
inkblots or color swatches, or the clearance to the doorway to my parent's cellar, I was no better than average.
The small assortment ranges in grade from 2 - B to 9 - H, which allows for ample gradations
of shade on better days, when spots might mimic Rorschach
inkblots or elaborate mold growth.
The brain images Brewer shows me — views from the side, back, and top — look like a cross between a nice, fat slice
of sausage and a Rorschach
inkblot test.
MLB has since mandated that bat manufacturers place an
inkblot on the handle
of every maple bat they make.
Last month a Canadian physician posted to Wikipedia all 10
inkblots of the Rorschach test.
Fortunately, the rest
of cast is just as good, with Jackie Earle Haley stealing the show as the
inkblot mask - wearing Rorschach.
A slate
of best picture nominees is like a Rorschach
inkblot — we look at it and can see the era.
For now, revel in the glory
of the game's latest stage reveal:
Inkblot Art Academy.
Rorshach's cloth mask, with its endlessly shifting
inkblots, is one
of the most intriguing superhero masks ever, always in constant motion, like a mood ring
of the id.
Rorschach (devilishly played by Jackie Earle Haley), in his ever - morphing
inkblot mask and raspy voice, narrates the complex mystery that plays out with richly designed flashbacks that reveal the personal histories
of the likes
of Laurie Jupiter (Malin Akerman) and her atomically transmogrified yet anatomically correct love interest Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup).
The rest are just reflections
of the hour and minute readings which in turn gives rise to the
inkblot effect.
As we're not getting to the park as much, my back yard is no longer the blank white canvas it was after the first snowfall, but a series
of abstract yellow stains — like those
inkblot tests — all punctuated with brown exclamation points.
- during multiplayer battles, when two players cooperate to take down a single opponent, an «assist mark» is displayed - battle results screen now displays the number
of times you used your special - you will also see the number
of players you splatted or assisted in splatting - see the number
of times you got splatted - new stage called the
Inkblot Art Academy where many Inkling artists graduated from - many sculptures can be found in there, and climbing up on them can actually give you the advantage in battle
Given that the majority
of your works are room - sized installations, your smaller scale works are an exciting departure; they feel like psychedelic Rorschach
inkblots.
The closest it comes to a multinational celebrity is Shio Kusaka, a Japanese ceramicist based in LA, or Charline von Heyl, with a wall
of abstractions akin to
inkblots and said to pick up Russian and Polish folk art.
Instead, Grant culls from sources diverse as Antigone and Audre Lorde, combining the two in the heavy Self (I was born to love), its Pop - ready Rorschach
inkblot firing off in front
of a field
of Lorde's affirming truth - bomb «Caring for myself is not self - indulgence, it is self - preservation, and that is an act
of political warfare».
Abstract gestures — Rorschach - like purple
inkblots — are layered on top, transgressing the coherence
of the images beneath.
In an untitled work from 1963 a labyrinthine and dense series
of black lines simultaneously resembles a thumbprint and a black hole
of space; in an
inkblot drawing from 1995 the small mirrored shapes recall the self - reflective quality
of fleeting images
of inner thought.
«Rorschach» was inspired by Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist who developed a technique
of psychoanalysis utilizing
inkblots.
One
of the most restless artistic minds
of the postwar American scene, he experimented endlessly, producing abstract films and found - art assemblages, intricate felt - pen and blobby
inkblot drawings, punk - scene photos and playful performances.
Meditative, the film continually washes into itself and then retreats, an
inkblot test made from our collective consciousness
of this body
of water.
Stripped
of their original context, abandoned images force a viewer to find his or her own meaning, like a Rorschach
inkblot test.
Metaphysical energy is also found in the artist's
INKBLOT and MANDALA series
of lithographs.
Each gallery highlights one aspect
of his interdisciplinary sensibility: the early paintings, sardonic assemblages, exquisite collages, magnificent films and miraculous
inkblot drawings.
But for his main piece in this show he has filled a whole wall
of a big gallery with a symmetrical abstract design that looks like a giant
inkblot in a Rorschach test.
Bruce Conner is represented by many phases
of his career, from assemblage to
inkblot drawings.
So those
inkblot works and the large color - field painting, all
of which, on some level, are supposed to be absent imagery and with the absence
of imagery they're supposed to allow for kinda transcendental experience either in the color field
of a painting that's like the Barnett Newman painting or to be lost in the kind
of play
of shapes and colors and textures and things in a totally abstract - looking picture.
They include, Rocket (2007), A Patch
of Green, (2004 — 5), Kittens Grow Up (2007), Glue - 6789 (2005),
Inkblot # 40 (2011),
Inkblot 15: Helen's Dreaming (2008),
Inkblot 44: Aqua Woman (2011), The Mongrel Sister (2007), Walking the Cross (2012),
Inkblot # 22 (2008).
Similarly, in Conner's intricate, folded, and manipulated
inkblot drawings, which served as the ailing artist's primary mode
of expression in the 1990s, one can trace a line
of development from the totem - pole - like columns
of individual blots to the later, more crowded examples that blur the divisions between and within columns; these again activate the negative space but to a lesser extent than the felt - tip works.
The work
of each artist, in its own way, evokes the Leonardo treatise and the longstanding tradition in art inspired by it, from the 18th century
inkblot drawings
of Alexander Cozens to Dadaism, surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.
In the end, there's sufficient nuance in the science that a disaster
of this sort can, like a Rorschach
inkblot, be what anyone with a predisposition on global warming wants it to be.
Keith Kloor and Roger Pielke, Jr., have both pointed out that events in Egypt remain the geopolitical equivalent
of a Rorschach
inkblot, shaped by a sufficiently wide array
of factors that they can be linked to just about any agenda — particularly the environment and climate change.
More evidence
of Muller as
inkblot.
This has become a bit
of a Rorschach test for the whole legal profession: we're all looking at the same
inkblot, but we're seeing (sometimes entirely) different things.
The Measurement
of Social Competence in Children Using the Rorschach
Inkblot Test: A Validation Study
Many people think
of the «
Inkblot Test» (actually called the Rorschach, named after the psychologist who developed it) when they think
of personality testing.
A projective personality assessment based on the subject's reactions to a series
of ten
inkblot pictures.
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If you are skeptical about the idea
of psychological testing based on limited knowledge
of, say, the Rorschach (or
Inkblot) Test, you should understand several things.
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