Sentences with phrase «opaque surface»

Light slows all the time: photons passing through water decelerate to roughly 224,844,344 meters per second, and they stop and are obliterated when they hit opaque surfaces.

If, then, in its broad definition, abstraction serves to reveal the unseen, for both DeFeo and Grotjahn, it perversely serves as a material diary of intense meditations whose specific revelations remain as impenetrable as their characteristically opaque surface marks.

Silke Otto - Knapp (b. 1970, Germany): Silke Otto - Knapp's paintings are characterised by graphic lines and opaque surfaces with staged representations of figures and landscapes.

Phase variation refers to the fact that the colonizing bacteria have transparent cell surfaces, while those that spread within the host have opaque surfaces.

Many of the Cubo - Expressionist works are exhibited in finished form, but most are completely obscured beneath the opaque surfaces of paintings featuring abstract radiant designs.

Now, one of the things that's also striking, is that in «Look Mom,» you get these opaque surfaces, certainly less atmospheric than others ones, and you begin to see a clarification of the physical parts of the painting other than gesture.

Subtle mutations in tone call to mind the undemonstrative play of light on an opaque surface, but the work is an essentially formalist exercise consisting of the superimposition of black lines on a monochrome ground.

With some notable exceptions (which, in their highly physical translucency underscore the opacity of their contexts), Heilmann builds color to an opaque surface.

Thin layers are applied to rather heavy linen, its chunky tooth providing sturdy contrast to the paint's soft, matte, opaque surface.

After connecting Epic to your mobile device via Bluetooth, simply tap the keyboard image that's projected onto any flat, opaque surface to input data.