Sentence examples for strong contour from inspiring English sources

In the Met's own "Head of a Man" by Watteau, a precursor to "Mezzetin," strong contour lines of black chalk cradle the subject's tilted head.

It's instructive to compare his charcoal-chalk-pastel drawing "Woman Adjusting Her Hair" with Ingres's "Study for La Grande Odalisque," noting how Degas adopts Ingres's strong contour line but throws some kinks into the sensuous curve of the odalisque's spine.

Nearby is a drastically foreshortened male nude by an anonymous German artist; the pose recalls Mantegna's "Dead Christ," but the strong contour lines resemble those in engravings from the Netherlands.

Their admiration of Japanese woodcuts, which were then in vogue in Europe, inspired them to use simplified shapes and strong contours.

The common factor of these images is that they are composed of uniform areas (e.g., the sky) or textures with very low dynamic (e.g., the trees), and they have very few strong contours (the street lamp and the statue of Figure 10).

Stronger contour current activity may have been related to generally enhanced North Atlantic deep-water circulation.

A strong "occluding contour," an essential silhouette, is etched or painted on the hard surfaces.

The importance of strong contrast and contour in the attraction of insects to flowers is related to the perceptual qualities of the insect's compound eye, which shows maximal response to flickering stimuli and may depend upon similar qualities for much form discrimination.

In high speed machining, the feedrate profile also has a strong influence on contour accuracy.

Erase the sketch lines and make the contour stronger.

According to these rules, a strong inflexion in a contour will lead this contour to be described as two groups, joining at the inflection point.