Sentences with phrase «visual equivalent of»

Though not the worst of its kind, this «signed post» is a visual equivalent of certain portions of the Income Tax Act.

With McLaughlin, we are seeing something ancient in the language of the new, as though visual equivalent of zen.

«A Visual Equivalent of the Blues, in Warm Shades,» New York Times, February 2, 2012.

Greenberg's dialectic made color - field sound formidable, but the art proved lightweight in practice, a genteel sort of taste — the visual equivalent of second - Martini euphoria.

Colors are placed next to one another, so that each speaks for itself as a single complex entity while also combining with others to form a synthesis that is the visual equivalent of musical chords.

Likened to be the visual equivalent of a mantra, Shapiro develops series of work based upon Eastern traditions and concepts, such as «Mudra» (Buddhist hand symbols) and «Savasan» (the lying - down posture in yogic practices).

Is the Turner Prize... a) a serious art award b) a TV game show c) the visual equivalent of a Stock, Aitken and Waterman record?

At one level that's a self - evident idea, the visual equivalent of asking whether a tree falling in the forest makes a sound if no one is there to hear it.

In contrast, Worley's work seems to utilize the visual equivalent of name - dropping to prop up the thin merits of his final product; the art historical references acting as a declarative stamp to label an otherwise muddy experiment as art.

Rauschenberg's works are a visual equivalent of the great American novel, hinting in coded form at his affairs with the artists Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly

Some abstract artists explain themselves by saying that they want to create the visual equivalent of a piece of music, which can be appreciated purely for itself, without having to ask the question «what is this painting of?»

Different levels of clarity, density and blankness, like different levels of depth within the sculptures, provide the visual equivalent of poetic rhythm and metaphor.

They permit the visual equivalent of eavesdropping: it is as if Oldenburg were allowing us to stand behind him and look over his shoulder as he perceives the world.

The title of the show, Cadence, which derives from one of Nathanson's paintings, emphasizes the way her work is a visual equivalent of a rhythmic flow of sounds or words.

Her two entries, packed with images (guns, celebrities, cartoons), peppered with phrases and pictographs, are the visual equivalent of a static - filled talk - radio station turned on loud.

When Ryan came across Schwitters» works, «she recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets — discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space.»

Group exhibitions come in two general types: those that try to make a point about some issue and those that are the visual equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the kitchen wall to see what sticks.

I'd like to say that this is the visual equivalent of Philip Roth appearing as a character in one of his own novels, especially since Nelson is so fascinated by the atmospheres of fiction.

Traumatic and awkward — this visual equivalent of stuttering or stumbling felt eloquent.

Bush, himself, was like a Morley Callaghan character — plain - speaking on the surface, complex underneath — and his manner of painting was the visual equivalent of Callaghan's very «Canadian» prose: flatfooted, unadorned, coarse - grained and somehow the better for it.

and his manner of painting was the visual equivalent of Callaghan's very «Canadian» prose: flatfooted, unadorned, coarse - grained and somehow the better for it.

More than mere depictions of Ovid's stories, Titian referred to his mythological paintings as «poesie» - the visual equivalent of poetry.

In so doing, he created the visual equivalent of the «white noise» - the hum of murmuring voices - that both disrupts and ultimately informs the ritualized proceeding of the consumption of opium... (T) hese images materialize a sense of the experience produced by consuming the drug (Schimmel, op.

It was the visual equivalent of stuttering or stumbling and yet it was incredibly eloquent.

The visual equivalent of slow food.»

Such things weren't overlooked in the QX56, even though its exterior is the visual equivalent of an orthopedic shoe.

This is the visual equivalent of Mansel's distracting present tense, like watching A Man for All Seasons shot by Michael Mann.

To Emmett, the event is an extension of what he does every Saturday morning in the control booth: «The festival is sort of the visual equivalent of KFJC, where a bunch of enthusiastic people who love exploring and finding things share what they've found with like - minded people.

Too bad a hapless Maguire has problems pronouncing the word «orgiastic» in one of the direct citations from the novel that fuel the inevitable voice - over, Fitzgerald's literary shimmer once again pressed into the service of a film that can't find a visual equivalent of such gossamer prose.

The visual equivalent of doom metal, this impressionistic and sometimes literally hallucinogenic drama tells the story of a young girl named Albrun, who goes to live in a remote, snowbound wooden shack with her mother.

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.

The aesthetic of deep - focus, long - duration takes that Desplechin developed in earlier films has been jettisoned, replaced by the visual equivalent of turntable scratching (as we see Ivan do as DJ of the town dance).

On one hand, the pan and scan rendition offers the visual equivalent of gibberish; more than half of the original image is lost.

In other cases, Cohn jumbled panels from different strips so that they had none of the ordinary structure found in comics — the visual equivalent of stringing together a randomly chosen set of words.

When charged particles break the local speed of light, the result is a strangely beautiful blue glow called Cerenkov radiation — the visual equivalent of a sonic boom.

It's the visual equivalent of shouting.

This poetic description incorporates an essential principle of both Mennonite and mainstream Protestant thought: the supremacy of word over image, a prejudice that Dutch painters in general and Rembrandt in particular countered by imbuing their portraits and historical subjects with the visual equivalent of sound.

Palazzolo's palette tends toward tertiary hues; aquas, pinks, lavenders, warm siennas, and luminous grays feel like visual equivalents of scents such as those in the bottles.

Using a rough - textured sackcloth, he created a friezelike composition whose flat but monumental forms and exotic color create visual equivalents of the peace and harmony he had admired among the Polynesian natives.

Not exact matches

So, instead of building a website that is dramatic from a visual standpoint, but requires the equivalent effort of a million hamsters running on wheels to power up a switchboard to manage all of the data and bytes your site is throwing at the visitor, you should probably go with a more «minimalist» approach.

It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the same as consecrating a religion, since religions always belong to the visual realm).

It's the first well - documented example of an organism using body shape to confuse predators that use echolocation, the researchers say — the equivalent of fish and insects that display giant eyespots for visual trickery.

An acoustic ecologist at Cornell, Clark says whale song is the equivalent of visual communication for human beings.

The Pantone Color Bridge guide is a multifaceted tool, providing a side - by - side visual comparison of Pantone Spot Colors (Formula Guide colors) versus their closest CMYK process printing equivalent.

Still, I suppose Mike has nothing to feel sorry for when audiences flock in droves to endure more of his visual and aural assault on their senses, in 3D IMAX no less, perhaps the cinematic equivalent of feeling shitfaced after stumbling feebly out of the theaters once it's all over.

These early portions feel like the live action equivalent of a Goofy short, with the reliance on visual - based humor and narration reminiscent of the «How to» cartoons.

It felt like the entire point of every previous Marvel movie was to build to the deeply satisfying Avengers sequence where the Hulk swats swarms of aliens and pummels the duplicitous deity Loki, in scenes that were the closest onscreen equivalent to the kinetic, physics - defying visual poetry of late Hulk co-creator Jack Kirby.

Like Michael Dubo de Wit's remarkable film that draws upon the pastel naturalism of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli for what might be their best film in a line of classics, Del Mar's music is the equivalent of those soft brushstrokes on a big screen canvas of visual poetry, a score that profoundly captures a life at first seemingly lost at sea, only to soar under, and above it though its graceful music that touches the silent tides of nature's life force.

It doesn't offer any visual improvement however it does include a new type of gameplay mode featuring «Funky Kong» that is basically equivalent to the Easy mode for most games.

The film is dead simple in its visual execution, except for some symbolic flourishes that will either jar with you or make you feel there's a mysterious resonance you can't quite pinpoint — like a lingering shot of the dark interior of a sauna locker, this film's equivalent of that black sun of an air extractor in Apichatpong's Syndromes and a Century.