Sentence examples for negative shapes from inspiring English sources

She longs for a dog, but alas, her parents appear (only once) as negative shapes doing a fraught and final dance of NO.

His hair is a flow of golden clouds, his head a pile of ruins; his hands and legs are formed by the negative shapes around an Art Nouveau fountain that is closest to the viewer.

Or, as André put it, "There's a hexagon pattern of negative shapes that are subtracted from the material from one side, and then there's the same pattern, subtracted from the material from the other side.

The two best pieces, facing each other in a smaller gallery, are more spatially complex: each engages a wall with positive and negative shapes that use both the front and the back of the striped paper.

With techniques learned from the Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York in the 1940's, Ms. Catlett builds form through the juxtaposition of positive and negative shapes, basing her pieces on identifiable subjects and then distorting and exaggerating them for expressive emphasis, as in her new voluptuous bronze "Nude Torso".

the bone, its curvature makes positive and negative shapes on the table.

Vertically aligned CNT films with negative pattern shapes of microchannels are grown on silicon oxide films, providing CNT microchannels.

Farther on, a rectangular mirror cut into radiating triangles creates tension between the shattered reflections and a negative shape like a cartoon burst.

"What it's all about is the interrelationship of the negative shape – the figure-ground relationship, the shapes between characters and within characters," Parker explained in Gary Hustwit's 2007 documentary, Helvetica.

The day after he had roughly cut out the image, he found its "negative shape" — the paper that he had cut away — in the trash.

He seems to have been fascinated by one of the most marvellous properties of Japanese sumi-e painting, the direct application of brushed forms to rice paper or silk so that the white ground itself supplies the light in the image, not so much negative shape or absence as a positive whiteness burning through the black or dark grey shapes.