Sentence examples for abstract variations from inspiring English sources

He proceeded to develop abstract variations on cup, teapot, and vase forms with faceted asymmetrical compositions, glazed in primary colors, that are like pocket distillations — which turn monumental in memory — of modern style from Cubism through De Stijl to minimalism.

Reclining Figure, one of the artists's many abstract variations on the female form, normally rests on a concrete plinth in a field at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.

When I went to see him at his Tribeca loft in February, the day after he got back from Cape Breton, he immediately took me downstairs to the ground-floor studio to see the new drawings: twenty-seven large-scale abstract variations, in thickly impastoed black oil stick, on the circular motif that has occupied him for several years.

He can take apart Poussin's The Triumph of Pan, reconfiguring the elements of its composition over and again in semi-abstract variations that seem to unleash the intensely structured violence of the original.

In Part 2, the more abstract "Idiot Variations," Mr. Eckert plays the village idiot who imagines himself a mystic, dressed in the ragged white robes of an Indian sage with a string of Tibetan bells hanging from his neck.

There have been two main quantitative genetic approaches used to clarify causes of observed variation in the human dentition: classical correlation analysis and multiple abstract variance analysis.

Another variation is that life is doomed to suffering and failure, and a little more abstract version is that non-existence is preferable to existence.

Each abstract version started with "Some people…" and described the behavior as generally applied to them without presenting any idiosyncratic variations.

Suggesting harmony, rather than sentiment, Whistler began giving his paintings abstract musical titles ("Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea" from the Freer's collection is paired for the first time in a century with "Variations in Violet and Green: Chelsea" from the Musée d'Orsay).

How early in the hierarchy of visual, temporal, and prefrontal areas are the representations abstracted away from variations in lower level stimulus form and position (DiCarlo and Maunsell 2003; Freedman et al. 2003; Hemond et al. 2007; Schwarzlose et al. 2008; Andresen et al. 2009)?

The algorithm is based on the discovery that a simple system of rotating lines can create endless variations of abstract shapes ranging from curved harmonious lines to edgy and chaotic patterns.