Sentence examples for optical sensation from inspiring English sources

Optical sensation and spatial dislocation meld to energise the flat surface.

There are some very beautiful paintings at Tate Modern invoking the optical sensation of hurtling through a landscape by train.

The reverence observers tend to feel when they lift their eyes up to heaven may well be physiological, an optical sensation connected to muscular tension in the eyes.

Chevreul's second law, of successive contrast, referred to the optical sensation that a complementary colour halo appears gradually to surround an intense hue.

Ms. Cunnick's "Rocca" and "Aspetta" concentrate on muted but vibrating tones and spatial divisions that entice shifting optical sensations.

I'm interested in why these kinds of optical sensations bother your perception in a way that almost seems psychological, the way they attack the mind.

In this arresting treatment of a prosaic subject — a young woman laboring in the kitchen — Vermeer forsakes his well-known optical sensations for earthier pleasures.

The exhibition's only painting without a narrative subject, the work becomes all color and flicker, minimizing weight and substance and emphasizing the feeling of experience translated into optical sensations.

Though the prints draw you in, and the optical sensations make you think about the act of looking as much as what you see, their power diminishes as soon as you leave them.

Yet it is the formal interplay of colours and shapes that alone is capable of communicating a particular mood, producing optical sensations of space, volume, movement, and light and creating forces of both harmony and tension, even when a painting's narrative symbolism is obscure.

Richard Anuszkiewicz, in full Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz, (born May 23 , 1930 Erie, Pa., U.S ., American painter, among the originators of Op art, a style of painting concerned with visual sensation and the effect of optical illusion.