Again and again a huge black-and-white shape looms beneath my feet, bursts out for a breath, surfs a bit of swell, then dives away again.
Each frame seems carefully composed, the black-and-white shapes emerging almost as abstractions.
In short order, I was handed a red clay bowl painted with black-and-white shapes, filled with the staple brew of sweet fermented manioc called nijiamanch.
(Ms. Clark's "Contra Revelo," from 1958, is a dead ringer for one of Ellsworth Kelly's black-and-white shapes paintings of the same period, but more sculptural).
The animals have black and white shape-disrupting camouflage and make a whistling noise, sounding almost more bird than mammal.
"Bretons Praying" (1888) has a nonclassical, snapshotlike composition that tends to flatten the imagery into an arrangement of black and white shapes, setting up the kind of tension between abstraction and illusion that defined early Modernist painting.
Up close, the humongous image looks more like an abstract sea of black and white shapes.
Here again black and white shapes twist and evolve kaleidoscopically, but now they also take the shapes of words that, if you squint, you can just make out.
The album sleeve and booklet swirl and dance with amorphous black and white shapes, textures, and Hyde's impressionistic urban poetry, gathered on his and Warwicker's New York City trips, where they saw the contrast knob turned up in full expressionistic style.
The outcome measure for this test is Δ, which is the ratio of the spacing between the contour-defining elements (Gabor patches, which are oval black-and-white-striped shapes) and the spacing between the randomly arranged background-element Gabor patches (see figure 1).
In study 1, the second (lateral) stimulus was a geometric shape (a black-and-white checkerboard pattern or vertically aligned circles).
