Sentence examples for contoured forms from inspiring English sources

The striking colour, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms of his work powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art.

His paintings, whatever their subject matter, are structured as rows of highly contoured forms, with exaggerated chiaroscuro to mimic three-dimensionality. His practice was to create a complete maquette of the scene he wanted to paint (some of these are in the exhibition), light it dramatically, and then copy it onto the canvas.

In the 1980s the bodies of the nudes pressed into the surrounding space, their three-dimensionality and almost modelled impasto describing deeply contoured forms like those within Freud's favourite bronzes by Rodin – Naked Balzac and Iris.

Here we utilised a magnocellular system-biased phantom contour form discrimination task defined by high temporal frequency contrast reversals to compare contrast sensitivity in a group of children with dyslexia and an age- and nonverbal intelligence-matched control group (9 14 years).

A self-described heir to Delacroix as a colorist, he talked about rescuing painting from line (the legacy of Cubism) and from its general condition as a "prison window, with the lines, contours, forms and composition determined by the bars".

As we look at a portrait, our brain calls on several interacting systems to analyze contours, form a representation of the face and of the body, analyze the body's motion, experience emotion, and perhaps, empathy.

His approach to composition and his rendering of space and light like his handling of contour, form, and colour, his brushwork, and (in his drawings and etchings) his treatment of line and tone are subject to gradual (or sometimes abrupt) transformation, even within a single work.

Also with an increase in the inclination angle, the isotherms at Ra = 106 attain a more random contour form.

In the PcPS domains, polymer chains were observed to be aligned parallel to each other along the domain contour, forming a 2D nematic phase.

In Fig. 4, mSVDD recommends two hyperspheres in the input space to approximate two contours formed by a single hypersphere in the feature space.

Green shows cell division in sector i and red indicates the contour formed by the points of the cells with the greatest z coordinate.