Sentences with phrase «on flatness»

My money's on flatness for the rest of this decade.

Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël and Hans Hartung taught him that an illusion of space existed within the materiality of a painting's surface, something dismissed by previous abstract artists who focused on flatness.

But full - on flatness could be a misreading of how we actually interact with screens: looking at emails all day might seem like a very flat life, but when you're roaming the halls of a video game, you can become fully immersed.

(Just take a trip around NADA, or the Lower East Side to see full - on flatness in action.)

These paintings were both an assault on and acknowledgement of high Modernism's insistence on the flatness of the picture plane.

With all their emphasis on flatness, they are not at all flat, but bend and curve and wobble with vigorous energy.»

Not exact matches

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.

The apparent flatness of the Phillips curve together with evidence that inflation expectations may have softened on the downside and the persistent undershooting of inflation relative to our target should be important considerations in our policy deliberations.

It mobilized group efforts at self - awareness and self - understanding; it dispelled the flatness by precipitating here - and - now involvement; and it freed the leader from any pretense of always being «on top of it,» tuned in, fully aware.

The flatness of the soffit is relieved by gold - stenciled stars on a blue background, reminiscent of the central dome of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna (early 5th century).

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

Many parents have found it to be very soothing and an aid in helping their baby turn both ways during sleep at night, preventing flatness on one side of the head.

One issue with this pillow is that it flatness out and compresses once you lay your head on it.

It pulled it up, but with my small A / B - cup breasts, it caused a flatness on top and the shape to be distorted.

We can spend huge amounts of time and energy focusing on something as minute as the width of our thighs or the flatness of our bellies and tear ourselves to pieces.

Neither of these stylistic elements are even slightly unique, and they themselves tend to go crippled under flatness that sometimes feels more like laziness, but that they have some degree of inspiration endears on an aesthetic level, while livening things up, with the help of a hopelessly misguided director who cloys, cloys and cloys, and then manages to work in a touch of touching charm.

Daring to face these often noxious, seemingly empty phenomena on aesthetic terms, and taking on a degree of their flatness and simplicity, Coppola renders them surprisingly substantial.

This slacker spin on «Annie Hall» doesn't quite make up in verbal intelligence what it lacks in visual flair, saddled with sitcom rhythms and video flatness.

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.

Infiniti says this car is a sport sedan (after all, racing driver Sebastian Vettel did tune the steering settings), but on a long - distance drive through the endless flatness of the Midwest, the Q50 became a refined luxury cruiser.

The ranch sat on the edge of Muroc Dry Lake, the largest slab of uninterrupted flatness on Earth.

The left - hand side of the Galaxy Ace just houses the volume up and down button, where the flatness of the screen is clearly on show and in a way that once again mimics the iPhone 4's with its very level retina screen — only

The left - hand side of the Galaxy Ace just houses the volume up and down button, where the flatness of the screen is clearly on show and in a way that once again mimics the iPhone 4's with its very level retina screen — only with much less of a premium cost attached.

Defining Good Writing (Possibly Sententious) Cheryl Klein is «rolling our eyes at the flatness of the prose, characters, and plot construction,» which has prompted her to post about «and yet we just keep reading on.»

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Thursday that the yield curve often steepens after a period of flatness heralding an economic recovery, but in this case is it likely a combination of factors.

So close to Gauteng it is virtually on its doorstep, it is regarded as outdoors country with a climate to match, and often described in terms of its flatness, smattering of trees and grasslands — it's the natural habitat of the black and white rhino.

I have a Note 4 with an Otterbox on it, so it bulked a little with that, but it didn't permanently cause the thing to lose it's flatness.

So close to Gauteng it is virtually on its doorstep, it is regarded as outdoors country with a climate to match, and often described in terms of its flatness, smatter...

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

Stella insistence on the primacy of space over every other aspect of the experience and process of painting was still directly in line with Clement Greenberg's insistence on the primacy of 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

Russian Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich furthered this flatness by placing flat colorful shapes on pure white backgrounds in his works, and De Stijl painter Piet Mondrian painted flat grids in red, blue, yellow, white, and black.

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.

With saturated colors on handmade paper and canvas, Freeman enhances the modernist flatness of her forms, while exploring and pushing the boundaries of minimalism.

The Flatness # 11, 2013, Inkjet print on matte rag paper.

Formalist critics, especially Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994), made much of perceived flatness as one of the qualities through which modernist painting distinguished its claims on our attention from those of all the other contemporaneous arts.

He is trying to compress the woman, squeeze her into the flatness of the picture plane, while on the walls around them hang late modernist abstractions that Greenberg once heralded as the future of art.

Playing on the tension between flatness and depth, The World is Flat is an iconic example of Bradford's tendency towards large and expansive scale.

While earlier, enamel works focused on line and flatness, her move to oil paint in 2001 has resulted in a sculptural, almost three - dimensional style.

This rotation makes the flatness explicit because you can no longer suspend your disbelief about what is on the other side of the forms in the picture; there's no backside of the hand, far side of the tree, nor bulk to the boulder.

Already one can see the elements of style back then — the solid objects, their flatness, the elements of line and color, the grid, and a meta - grid large enough to reflect on them all.

Instead of resting on top of the canvas, the paint in this image stained the canvas — a significant feat in an era when avant - garde artists were fascinated with the flatness of painting.

His vibrant paintings hinge on a tension between figure and ground; flatness and spatiality; edge and interior; geometry and disorder; with influences as varied as Henri Matisse, Edward Hicks, and Henri Rousseau.

He shed effortlessly the backing of Greenberg by rejecting the theology of post-painterly abstraction, which was that the colour should lie plainly on the surface emphasising the flatness of the canvas and eschewing illusion.

The solo exhibition finds Edwin Abbott's novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension as a primary inspiration, a story centered on two - dimensional geometric figure, a Square who is occupying a land of flatness, but through a series of encounters with a higher dimensional being who is a sphere discovering a greater reality outside of his own limited gates of perceptions.

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.»

In this exhibition, we observe the artist's concentration on abstract space and the blurring between architectural dimensionality and geometric flatness.

Late in life, he moved in with his sister in Bellport Village on Long Island, N.Y.. There, in a tiny bedroom studio, he worked out his own responses to questions regarding flatness and color posed by the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Trying «to join modernist flatness with a street art vocabulary in an attempt at finding value in the idea of painting,» Hendrick paints on garbage produced by art institutions, including discarded paintings by undergraduates.

A couple of the paintings, such as «Hebe» 2011 (pictured) have been split into two sections — at first, the cut is hard to perceive; it disappears within the shadows and shapes depicted on the surface of the canvas — treading a careful line between an impulse towards sculpture whilst asserting the flatness of the painted surface.