Due to the design of the base, the rear of the opposite painting is seen behind the person,
where flat planes of colored paint produce a loosely articulated second figure.
And then a longing for the return of curves and for work with larger areas of colour brought paintings
where flat planes of colour appear to weave in space in compositions of lyrical and exuberant rhythms.
Not exact matches
In order to «climb a high mountain» and see «all the kingdoms of the earth,» and in order for the resurrected Christ to «ascend in the clouds»
where believers will join him, heaven has to be «up there» above a
flat plane of the earth.
Friedman: Well, it -LSB-'s] precisely because — and again [this] goes back to the thesis — in a world that is hot,
flat, and crowded, clean power, clean technology, the ability to have your energy in both the clean form
where you know the cost of your power and you can control that much better; that's going to be a source of power generally and that's going to be a currency of power, every bit Is [as] much as tanks,
planes, and nuclear missiles have been during the cold war.
As with any MacFarlane effort,
where he once again teams with co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, pop - culture references is the first port of call for joke - central, and the sequel is again over-loaded with them: the
Planes, Trains and Automobiles and The Breakfast Club sequences are a hoot, but the Comic Con finale feels
flat, more creative auto - pilot than uncharted waters.
Having been sold on the merits of the
flat -
plane crank, we asked if it might find its way into pickup trucks, to which Adam replied that it's not as strong down in the 1,000 -2,000-rpm range
where those workhorses spend much of their lives.
Matisse achieves this most characteristically with
flat, unmodulated (or flatly patterned)
planes of colour, to be seen everywhere in this exhibition, but perhaps most obviously in the «Seated woman with a vase of Amaryllis» (1941) and «Asia» (1946), accompanied
where necessary with a strategic contradiction of the prevailing perspective as in the left - hand picture / window / doorway in «Large Red Interior» (1948).
That language consists of
flat areas of varying colors and sizes; the interruptions of paint drips, stains and abrasions; moments
where the stripes transmute into volumetric
planes and forms; and the addition of trompe l'oeil supports and prosthetics to prop up or balance the whole.
In this painting the hexagonal motifs float in a space that I can not help but see as deeper than the two - dimensional
flat plane that I know it is and that the painting itself keeps reminding me it is, by the refusal to open up a window on the world of recognizable objects, almost as if I find myself at the moment
where perception attempts to become cognition and the attempt is continually thwarted.
In the latter these painted grounds offer a great deal of information, and create a
flatter plane where the stage beneath consumes the marks and shapes above, only their faint traces visible.
Now, to quote from the Lion King, «every grunt, roar, and snort» makes the morning report in some database or other, lying
flat in the same
plane as Solomon's considered views; we now care more assiduously about what goes on in Manitoba, Michigan and Malaysia; SECs now cause corporate data to fly thither and yon like thistledown
where before they emitted a few fusty club newsletters.