Sentences with phrase «reflective black surface»

Sometimes, these juxtapositions provide stark studies in materiality: for instance, the reflective black surface of Johnson's wax, soap and tile work The Collapse (2012), evoking an urban streetscape, hangs near a recent Robert Irwin (Black Painting with Blue Edge, 2008 — 09), which seems, at once, to attract and repel light.

Not exact matches

Russell's team also noticed a variety of colors and minerals on the asteroid's surface, with bright spots — perhaps crystals or another reflective material — interspersed with black streaks on scarps and crater walls.

Evolutionary Edge The deep black interior of a moth's eye is one of the least reflective surfaces in nature.

Luckily, the reflective surface is only really noticeable when viewing content with a full color black drop (such as black screen during a scene change in a movie); otherwise the reflective surface can be pretty much ignored.

The multi-layered Gorilla Glass 5 surface on the back is dark, reflective and combines well with the polished black metal edges along the sides and the ends.

All around us are reflective surfaces that provide contrast through pigments — black pigments like carbon black, white pigments like titanium dioxide, which we can find in paints and in inks — and we're accustomed to interacting with these reflective surfaces, as they provide pleasant experiences under a wide range of lighting conditions.

Cast in «Liquid Black», its top is split in half with a reflective surface on one side and a massive vent on the other.

The surface of the mirror is reflective black and intended as a divination tool.

A few older works are also on display as points of reference, including a tar painting on glass from 1948, and a few of his «outrenoir» («blackbeyond») works — entirely black paintings with reflective surfaces from the 1980s, for which the artist is best known.

Literally doubled by the reflective surface of the material, the work's protagonist invokes minstrel show regalia and the ritual donning of black face makeup.

Its black, reflective surface is lush and slick, almost reading as standing liquid.

Over time, my production has evolved from black and white photographic portraits and narrative videos to creating hybrid «sites», images and installations employing photographs, videos and film, archives and found materials, projected sounds and reflective surfaces, works focusing on the individual's role in history and in time.

The reflective black Plexiglas surface acts as a mirror to our participation in the narrativization of history with its opacity suggesting the impossibility of either idealizing this history or separating out its place in the lineage of contemporary techniques of picturing the world through satellite imagery and global communication.

Each painting was created by dipping a video camera's lens into black oil paint and dragging it across the surface of a mirror in successive bands, leaving only tiny bits of the reflective surface exposed.

The paintings in this series are produced using the classical oil painting methods and materials of the Old Masters — successive layers of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly deep pictorial space.

The painted aluminum sculptures project from the wall and have reflective black or white surfaces in contrast to the matte surfaces of the paintings.

Also in the late»50s, Robert Rauschenberg produced a thick, textual canvas of black goop, though the thickness of the paint produced a glossy, reflective surface.

When black carbon falls on ice and snow, it smudges their bright white reflective surfaces.

The black, back surface of each bottle absorbs heat, while reflective inner surfaces reflect UV rays within the water itself.

[Response: Particularly amusing nonsense, since Jim has been pointing out the importance of black carbon deposition (which replaces the normally highly reflective snow surface with highly absorbing particulates, thus enhancing surface warming) on Arctic warming for a number of years.

If you look into the top of an aluminum can (which is VERY reflective on the surfaces) with a small opening, the opening will look matte black

This glamorous space mixes ebony black furnishings with warm wood and polished reflective surfaces.

Trade in floor - to - ceiling white for the timeless elegance of black with richly painted walls — just remember to give the space plenty of natural light and reflective surfaces to veer it away from feeling dreary.