Sentences with phrase «visual ambiguity»

To reflect on the refraction of their stories, actions, and significance away from mainstream historic accounts and collective memories, the inspiration for these drawings came from a study of Joseph Alber's «Structural Constellations», executed in 1950s and embodying his experiments with visual ambiguity: Geyer's Constellations series map the recognizable pattern of presence and absence of these women reintroducing ways of looking that allow their recognition today.

Böhm's practice is organized around four primary areas of investigation: Systems (serial structures), Perception (transparency and visual ambiguity), Gestalt (partition and outline), and Concept (linear principles and infinite progressions).

The visual ambiguity and feeling of disorientation produced by each work was compounded by the fact that they were part of a chain of movement, as the three galleries were connected.

U.S.A. Flag extinguishes the visual ambiguity characteristic of the Provincetown sculptures: Oldenburg painted the plaster mass with tempera in the unmistakable pattern of the American flag.

In this way, although the paintings are fully representational, the incidental surface qualities introduce a degree of abstraction and visual ambiguity.

The result is an aggressive, eye - popping style, full of bold line, highly saturated color, and visual ambiguity... Anticipating the bold patterns of Marimekko fabrics and 1970s super-graphics, the surfaces are so uninflected they seem printed rather than handmade.

On the other hand, in Untitled (Bottle Scan) 2005 - 2010 (digital pigment on watercolor paper), enough of the bottle shape and label is visible to allow a hint as to the subject, even as the shadows and distorted imagery maintain an overwhelming air of mystery and visual ambiguity in the composition itself.

She is acutely attuned to the instability of painting that stems from its inexorable visual ambiguity.

«I am concerned with geometric systems, ratio, color interaction, visual ambiguities, scale, archetypes.

On this occasion, the artist is presenting three paintings and a set of recent drawings, where we find the confrontation of her visual ambiguities.

Not exact matches

Conveying meaning primarily through visual methods is usually preferable within film criticism, but though the scenes may have appeared more artistic in their ambiguity if they weren't interrupted by evocative narration, Dominik also grasps how such scenes would be received when loaded with Pitt's presence.

And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

His ambiguity is playful and insightful, not just a smokescreen for foggy ideas and visual notions.

It's also a buddy movie that uses visual phallic puns to hint wickedly at what might have only crossed the minds of viewers of previous buddy movies, spelling out the ambiguity of their relationship with a funny routine involving an overheard conversation about feeling each other's breasts.

Visual inspection of the data reveals that some breeds have had two or three peaks, but here we consider only the highest one to avoid possible ambiguity in identifying these secondary peaks.

Nettles» linguistic impressionism employs the gravid ambiguity of language to reveal its deeper treasures; his visual meditations on the... Read more

Her installations employ visual and linguistic ambiguity in order to explore the potential for misinterpretation and misunderstanding.

These are images without masks that appeal by their lack of visual violence and spectacle, but are nevertheless characterized by a certain degree of ambiguity.

One can almost see the wink hiding within the works as Brett explores the ambiguity of visual information and the inherent weaknesses of abstraction.

digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.

While they may share common aspects of visual language, it is this rejection of ambiguities within data visualisation — echoed in a tendency towards an aesthetically resolved quality that buttresses against the chaos of the world — that marks the important point of separation between the two fields.

I try to intensify this optical ambiguity by collapsing the original altarpiece image on itself, multiplying its perspectives, disrupting the conclusive visual array of the original painting and replacing it with one that is still unfolding.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.

Utilizing the strategies of conceptual art, as well as the history of philosophy and science, Trepte makes prints and drawings and appropriates photographs to represent paradoxes, linguistic or pictorial ambiguities, and other absences, contradictions, and anomalies that defy direct explanation or concrete visual exposition.

In traveling around to various panels and symposia where contemporary issues in art — or in visual representation, as the case might be — are given a forum, I am struck by the manner in which citadels are verbally constructed over and over again in order to fend off the notion of ambiguity in art.

Concluding, Robert Treat states «My photography and mixed media work relate with a similar visual language: structure, distilled simplicity, intimacy, memory, eros, and ambiguity of narrative».

In re-framing overlooked but familiar visual phenomena, Ostoff seeks to heighten their perceptual ambiguity, to suggest suppressed elements of the uncanny, and in so doing, activate a kind of phenomenological intensity.

(«For an exhibition seeking to emphasize nonverbal, visual plasticity, ambiguity and multivalence, a catalogue with only analytical essays would seem inappropriate,» Kertess wrote in his introduction.)

Ranging from the festive to the ironic, they show a fascination with perceptual ambiguities and the macabre, often with visual trickery inspired by the 18th — and 19th - century stage spectacle known as the «phantasmagoria.»

Open - ended and unresolved, the relationship between the purely visual forms and the text reflects the way our own thought processes are similarly complicated by ambiguities and disconnection.

The results are often wryly humorous and sometimes uncomfortable, but they undoubtedly speak to the contradictions and ambiguities of visual culture in the 21st century.

By merging visual and written material, the artist underscores the ambiguity of photography and the influence of context on what we see.

This ambiguity is heightened by Cutler's embrace of a variety of visual references including Indian miniature paintings, US Army manuals and the costumes and textiles of diverse cultures and time periods, which she renders with great detail and specificity.

In his compositions, he uses visual metaphor to articulate the ambiguity and perplexity of national politics and reflections on identity.

Throughout her career, Barbara Kruger has reflected on or augmented the formal, thematic, and visual messages of these specific communication strategies, often unmasking their problematic ambiguity in the process.

What Bishop's work does so powerfully and originally is hold a wide gamut of visual contradictions and ambiguities in tight proximity: the paintings blossom out of the various irresolvable conflicts that he sets in motion.

I enjoy exploiting these ambiguities of cinematic material, creating a kind of audio - visual guessing game that encourages viewers to ask themselves questions about what they are looking at, actively engaging with the film rather than just passively consuming it.

I argue that Mosse's visual / aural strategies, by running counter to those programmed within the image supply chain dominated by mass - produced culture, set in motion jarring ambiguities that an uneasy audience must struggle with or at least decode.

Kertess hoped that there was some kind of mysterious metaphoric language — a language that emphasized «visual plasticity, ambiguity, and multivalence» — that might knit together the Babel of the Biennial.

Reingold is best known as a visual and conceptual artist for creating alternate ambiguities with her wall art and installations as they relate to the environment, poverty, and beauty.

Frequently employing visual and linguistic ambiguity in order to explore the potential of misinterpretation and misunderstanding, Marten's output includes sculpture, videos, text and screen - printed paintings.