Sentences with phrase «shaped armature»

Stella's ingenious solution was to cut away the leftover parts of the canvas, and to stretch the remainder on a shaped armature, with corners incised or a central hole evacuated.

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We knew it was going to have to interact with Moana and Maui, perform and convey ideas -LSB-...] We ended up creating this ocean rig that basically is a very simple shape and we created a rig in a sense that it's almost like a puppet armature where you can deform a character.

So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.

Entirely gone are the corseted ladies, cyborg armatures, and lace - clad volumes, and in their place are forms that assume the shape of a body, though not the flesh.

Sánchez created her first shaped canvas in the early 1950s, and subsequently developed her signature style of stretching canvas over wooden armatures while living in Havana, New York (1962 - 1966; 1968 - 1970) and Madrid (1966 - 1968).

They include a small painting simply titled «# 1» (2000), in which we see a phallic armature moving from gray into light blue; another titled «# 2» (1995), in which a blue crescent bends around to become titanium white; a third, «# 4» (2000 — 1), in which a rising, two - pronged black organic shape ends in a touch of green and ultramarine at either end; and finally «# 5» (1991), in which a red finger - like form passes from black to crimson red.

The legs are a pair of tights that have been shaped using an armature of wire netting to stand tall, albeit rather misshapen.

In «New Geometries,» one of Gibson's shaped canvas paintings uses the armature of an old ironing board multivalent in meaning: a readymade, shaped canvas; an homage to his grandmother who was a meticulous housekeeper; and the transformation of a domestic object into a power object — a shield.

Cubism meant shapes, and shapes meant armatures of light and dark.

Some hang from the ceiling, dangling and soft like laundry put out to dry; others form stiff loops with armatures of wire, or take the shape of books with fabric pages.

I knew that this show was a variation of his trademark Word Paintings, which the artist made by choosing a word almost randomly (by intuition and shape and not meaning or sound) from an online list («words that will make you sound smart and not pretentious») and beginning with the word as a formal «armature» onto which he builds the rest of the painting.

As it is in all the «Cable Paintings,» the shapes and extended armatures that extend out recall fishing lines with multiple hooks and sinker.

I wish the exhibition had shaped itself more around these issues and remarkable transits — though they are acknowledged — than around the standard armatures of chronology and technique.

An architect might draw lines on a page; Chadwick developed a technique of taking steel rods and welding them together in space to criss - cross, join and radiate out, which formed three - dimensional shapes in space (armatures) akin to the architect's space frame.

Fragmentary shapes slice or notch into a composition, often utilizing the armature of a recognizable letter to release energy that might otherwise have been diverted to establish balance.

A map can be, though, a useful armature on which to hang data; and because most of us have internalized the rough shapes of a world map, the data can be effectively ordered by all manner of facets that the world behind the map actually has, such as climate or population or history.

I really like the way they re-create the advantages of custom high - end IEMs — great noise isolation; contoured, ear - fitting shape; and multi-driver balanced armature architecture — in a design that has a universal fit.