Sentence examples for mechanical forms from inspiring English sources

The assorted mechanical forms, the bachelors, at the bottom of the "Glass" supposedly yearn toward the more sinuous doodads of the bride, above.

Most works in those mediums in the MOMA show are mediocre — including Picabia's, though his paintings of mechanical forms laced with wordplay and sexual innuendo can seem deliberately nugatory, razzing the very notion of quality.

But the school's climate of experimentation — and in particular its animating interest in the tension between handcrafted and mechanical forms of production — would eventually push him to explore the emerging medium of photography.

"Modernist Times" (1988), for example, combines a famous image of Charlie Chaplin entangled in a giant machine from his 1936 film "Modern Times" with abstract mechanical forms drawn by the French artist Fernand Léger in 1918.

In their literature, they utilized bare-bones vocabulary that resonated in likeness to the mechanical forms found in English shipyards and factories, and, in their writings as well as their paintings, Vorticists espoused abstraction as the only way to sever ties with the dominant and suffocating Victorian past so that they could advance to a new era.

Energy conversion from chemical to mechanical forms and then to electricity has experienced an explosive development in recent years.

Max Dupain thought the bridge's mechanical form made it "blood brother to the camera"; Cazneaux saw it as a geometrical diagram, a conundrum of piled-up quadrilaterals.

The bristling anti-establishment contempt and trenchancy of Osborne's more celebrated works is identifiable here only in mechanical form.

The optimum composition is about 75 percent silica, 10 percent lime, and 15 percent soda, but even this is too liable to devitrification during certain mechanical forming operations to be satisfactory.

His famous "Horse" (1914), a coiled, vaguely mechanical form bearing little resemblance to the animal itself, suggests metaphorically the horsepower of locomotive drive shafts and, by extension, the mechanization of modern life.

He deplores what he calls "mechanical form," telling one interviewer in the 1990s that writing within certain rhymes and meters resembles "learning how to balance brooms on your head".