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Some films are projected as rectangles, some are projected as longer rectangles, and some are projected as squares.
Ray is interested in setting rectangles within rectangles, and shifting from dark tones to light ones, while also being attuned to tonal shifts.
For an entire year, they redacted everything they posted on social media: monochrome blue rectangles blocked every photograph; smaller black rectangles made text unreadable.
Following the diagram above, fold it into eight rectangles and cut a horizontal slit down the center of the page between the four innermost rectangles.
Your correspondent tries to draw his own street, with large rectangles for houses, a line representing the kerb and small rectangles showing all the parked cars.
The plates have stepped up too — now stylish rectangles.
The small rectangles take up a surprising amount of room.
All the rectangles but one are on the same plane.
Kon's logo looks similar, but the ends are sharp rectangles.
On a large sheet of paper, Owens drew three rectangles.
You should have 24 rectangles of puff pastry dough. 2.
A pattern of circles or rectangles might be a face.
Bikes are reduced to faint blue rectangles that look like skateboards.
Other cars are larger blue rectangles with upturned corners—big skateboards.
To answer your question with another question — are all rectangles squares?
COMPUTER BRAINS are tiny rectangles, becoming tinier with each new generation.
In both groups, the graphite dots occur inside the smaller rectangles.
They move these rectangles, cylinders, stools, and frames through various configurations.
For their first 13 years of existence, smartphones were simple rectangles.
Everything felt the same: sleek touchscreen rectangles boasting cameras with many megapixels.
The comparative aesthetic subtlety of the "Koda" rectangles evinces greater conceptual subtlety.
They're just glass rectangles that connect to the internet and take photos.
Other smartphones' selfie cameras will only produce black rectangles in these conditions.
I'd like to see squares, rectangles, and circles make cases that solid.
It is true that they have perfected the art of black rectangles.
These supple rectangles had just the right balance of pasta to filling.
You could describe it as Formica rectangles in red, white and black.
You could describe it as Formica rectangles in red, white and black.
You can also see the fiber shields outlined by iFixit's white rectangles.
It's a photograph of soda cans flattened then compressed into wire-bound rectangles.
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You won't find notches or even tall screens here — just large, intact rectangles.
Those four rectangles surrounding the larger rectangle are the 16GB of HBM7003 memory.
The surface's horizontal and vertical grooves form a grid of different sized rectangles.
Press perforations together inside the 2 remaining rectangles to make 1 long rectangle.
A suet pastry dough is chopped into pieces and then rolled into rectangles.
There she cut sheets of glass into palm-size rectangles for smartphone displays.
The dots inside the rectangles indicate seats that changed parties in the election.
Cut the focaccia in half lengthwise, then crosswise into fourths, make 8 rectangles.
After a few weeks, for all his effort, he could make … rectangles that moved.
Pedestrians are depicted as yellow rectangles, other vehicles are purple boxes, and so forth.
At the same time, none of the forms fit comfortably within the painting's rectangles.
Circles, teardrops, and rectangles are arranged with what would seem to be intense consideration.
For example, the rectangles transition from shallow plinths to tall stacks or upright steles.
Far more appealing are the fried pies, golden rectangles filled with apples or blueberries.
There are ramshackle cement rectangles squatting under rain clouds in the sheep-strewn boonies.
The same way squares are rectangles, hot dogs are open-faced sandwiches, they said.
Round in Europe, tilted in Australia, massive rectangles in the UK, and so on.
They didn't look like much, just a stack of coppery rectangles wrapped in cellophane.
He took as his job breaking out of the age of rectangles and seriality.
Knives slice bricks of colored clay into immaculate rectangles against a white infinity backdrop.
Then, very faint, nearly undetectable horizontal or vertical rectangles were briefly flashed on the screen.
What are the rectangles of vertical blue bands floating among the trees meant to dignify?
Leathery rectangles of squid had very little to say to oroblanco, a cousin of grapefruit.
There is no predetermined pattern to the colors he places within the irregular white rectangles.
The original houses were small brick rectangles, less lovely than a double-wide mobile home.
Floating within the squares and rectangles is a single black circle – something to focus on.
Press the Share Screen button at the bottom right — it looks like two overlapping rectangles.
From there, it's back to tradition, and those neat, flat rectangles go into the Fryalator.
For protection, the movers had only poster-size rectangles of red plastic called breaker boards.
The red rectangles, one for each factory, overlapped one another like badly laid mosaic tiles.
The louder and more manipulative something is, the longer it dominates our little glass rectangles.
"The genesis of the project came from my recognition that on a formal level, when you are looking at two pages of a book, you are looking at two rectangles of black text inside the two larger rectangles of the white pages," Youd told Hyperallergic.
In their unpresuming simplicity, the rectangles recall the work of the 1960s Light and Space movement.
Today, you probably look at your Ive rectangles more often than you look at your partner.
Each seized carton contained eight packets of four pods—or 1,152 plastic rectangles—of mystery eJuice.
Love triangles and rectangles are nothing new, but Creek's delivery of these topics was shockingly fresh.
Any improved ribbon bridge is made up of two types of bays, essentially big floating rectangles.
Behold: It's a complicated, engaging piece, a patchwork of hastily scribbled lines and bold, misshapen rectangles.
They used neon pink string to mark out squares and rectangles the size of coffee tables.
There are grids of rectangles with warm-tone colors ranging among beige, maroon, and forest green.
We see a field of clearly delineated rectangles of color holding each other tightly in place.
The rectangles of color bump against each other, jostle for attention, yet remain separate and distinct.
Two watercolors use triangular shapes around the edge of what becomes multiple rectangles arranged in rows.
Black dots vibrate; rectangles do back-flips; puzzle-like forms fly apart and snap back together.
But they are enlivened by their windows, bright golden rectangles providing glimpses of charming domestic scenes.
The morning fog has lifted, and the sun is coming through the trees in golden rectangles.
Most buyers are gravitating toward standard surgical masks, which basically look like blue-hued paper rectangles.
The coffins are made from particleboard kits and are shaped like traditional caskets or as rectangles.
Like many rooms in the home, they have oak floors with boards laid in concentric rectangles.
Others say it began even earlier, with science fiction writers who imagined phones as glassy, frameless rectangles.
In the companion painting, the rectangles are salmon-colored and aligned vertically and horizontally, echoing the architecture.
In 2007, we began looking into touchscreen rectangles Ive designed (and the thousand imitators the iPhone spawned).
Greeting visitors is "black gate" (2017), a large canvas that features slightly irregular, telescoping rectangles of color.
Thomas Was Alone is a much happier platformer that will convince you that rectangles have feelings, too.
They are done on panels, which have been cut into squares and rectangles, vertically or horizontally aligned.
In the early 1970s, the most advanced game was Pong — two rectangles and a circle, bouncing around.
The interior of the pyramid is partitioned into overlapping planes – triangles, rectangles, and other related, geometric shapes.
Its background is a light olive green; on the left side, there are three dark-colored rectangles.
The art, lit with reverential spots, is tall columns of wallpaper and a few rectangles of tapestry.
The future of social is:- the color chat app where you can chat with colored rectangles only.
They are both perfectly designed rectangles that can be slipped into your pocket to stay within reach.
Thiebaud uses a layout commonly found in commercial art, marked-off rectangles that he fills with sketches.
So much personal fantasy, so many rectangles slathered on and sentimentally worked over, so many fascinatingly indecipherable methodologies.
They're in every sci-fi movie ever and we've all been stuck with rectangles since the iPhone hit.
Dear White People has its fair share of love triangles, rectangles, and maybe even pentagons at this point.
The flag's border is a mix of rectangles and triangles, all filled reds, blues, greens, pinks, and purples.
Drill 2 rectangles on the work surface to be able to insert the stick and the button. 3.
Like nuclear shadows on a Hiroshima wall, this consummately Perecian gallery of black rectangles traces loss's funereal contours.
A timeline of photographs, graphics, and colorful text rectangles, along with two openings that contain iPads, represents OSS.
" One design, Woltz said, involved "giant rectangles at different elevations," adding, "They were really—what can I say?
K., the next step is you're going to cut rectangles and trim the tops to look like—what?
Blinking green rectangles highlighted the trespassers; zooming in, he could make out the group of figures more clearly.
Cut the candy bar into cubes or rectangles and place three of them in a highball glass.. 5.
Somehow, he always ended up drawing circles, rectangles and arrows to explain how things communicated with each other.
In "Sheela," Ledgerwood draws the diamond's thick line over a ground that has been divided into four rectangles.
He tapped the N.Y.U. Langone Virtual Urgent Care app on his phone, revealing rows of rectangles: available appointments.
Most are six-story brick rectangles with incongruously aristocratic sounding names — Saxony Hall, Westminster Apartments, Green Park Essex.
It has three rectangles, with the top and bottom ones vaporous and the middle one even less substantial.
Place one of the non-filled rectangles over the top, pressing the edges with a fork to seal.
Start with 2 rectangles of fabric, 12" x 6" (or 11" x 5" for a smaller head)2.
In a project for Clodagh, the four-foot-square fixture mutated into three overlapping rectangles spanning 15 feet.
Throughout the tomb, I saw ghost traces of these souvenirs: Rothko rectangles where the paint is less intense.
In "La Femme fâché" (1966), Hans Hoffman-like rectangles and intertwined planes make strident formations on her canvas.
At the same time, Mangold has drawn an oval line that goes through each of the four rectangles.
The line touches the  exterior edge of three rectangles, but not the pale green one on the right.
To serve, place 2 polenta rectangles on a plate; top each with ¼ cup oyster mushrooms and ¼ cup dressed watercress.
If I thought Olive Garden's mozzarella rectangles were weird, Buca went the extra mile and gave us mozzarella triangles.
Despite the bland appearance, people have found ways to dress up their fiber rectangles so they look Insta-worthy.
Whether it was LG, Huawei or Wiko, they all showed off yet more black rectangles with slightly varying specifications.
Where there had once been graffiti, there were now big brown rectangles of paint, as "the buff" took effect.
After the caramels are cut into rectangles, wrapping each piece in parchment paper makes for a relaxing group activity.
The arguments centered on the value of certain iPhone designs—the famous rounded-corner rectangles—that Samsung's phones used.
It was he who came up with the idea of the abbreviations that now occupy the periodic table's rectangles.
The marbled smears of paint that run down the canvases overtake the regimented rectangles of bold colors behind them.
There are stacks of rectangles seemingly supported by horizontal, shelf-like stripes, but there is no feeling of compression.
If you really want to break the pattern of glass and metal rectangles, your next smartphone could be circular.
The black, green, violet, and yellow bands bordering the rectangles frame the totems as well as underscore their separateness.
Then, draw small rectangles, or thumbnails, in pencil that are equal to the number of paragraphs in the article.
In particular, the preponderance of all-black rectangles creates the impression that much of the work has been redacted.
Four rectangles (sky, villa, pool, and ground) float in a blank border, rudely slashed by the diagonal diving board.
A loose geometry formed from rectangles of varying dimensions pays homage to the modern grid but refuses its regularity.
She steered me by the elbow into a classroom where a string hung with paper rectangles bisected the room.
But manufacturers will try their hardest to make the everyday rectangles we carry around with us seem fresh again.
While Feeley  works with squares and rectangles, the forms inside are rounded and often push in from the edges.
In many of the rectangles, one color is loosely applied over another, a dense scribble over a solid plane.
The other thing that strikes me about these painting is that all the color rectangles inhabit their own space.
In both paintings, the rectangles of light reflected on the cool, dark wall are as palpable as the architectural elements.
Here, the black squares and rectangles are reminiscent of the video footage from military reconnaissance planes, or more recently, drones.
Tillyer's multi-part painting expands Constable's single vertical into five abutting rectangles, which can be associated with a panoramic view.
That's when you realize that the walls are tiled with flat rectangles of thick, translucent plastic bordered by aluminum bars.
Those tiny electronic squares and rectangles are the brains that run our computers, the Internet, and the entire digital world.
Anyone who knows their stamps, however, knows that the tiny rectangles have been emblazoned with their fair share of masterpieces.
Some of them are straight lines, some are spirals and rectangles and trapezoids, and some are animals: whales, ducks, hummingbirds.
Thus quantified, the texts are distilled into nine corresponding rectangles of black pigment that solemnly render and obscure revolutionary history.
The hospital was right in the heart of Shenzhen, where the skyscrapers partition the sky into distinct rectangles and squares.
It turns out that nearly boundless creativity can be sparked by simple flat rectangles with perforations for toggles and screws.
Some of his rectangles, edged with an aura, seem almost never to come into focus, while others feel almost crisp.
The purple background looks like empty space, and the yellow beneath like a flat tabletop, though they're both just rectangles.
This spiral effect was like watching a wave, but instead of water it's was made out of tiny plastic rectangles.
The leaning, spotted rectangles in "Dinner at Smith Square" (843-79) suggest, just barely, two people conversing over a table.
Once you're caught up, you'll still have plenty of time to arrange all your T-shirts into neat little rectangles.
Rectangles, arches or fuzzy-edged half-ellipses cohere into abstract compositions whose asymmetry and imperfections give them a dynamic charge.
The idea is simple and logical: To hide the massive black rectangles — screens — that are prevalent in the modern home.
What if the only available colors were red, blue, yellow, and black, and the only shapes were squares and rectangles?
Squares, triangles, rectangles—you'd think the list of shapes we have names for is pretty well settled by this point.
The field is taped off into rectangles, varying in area from 5 x 3 meters up to 3413 x 20 meters.
There are a couple of strategically placed black rectangles, but apart from that the photo doesn't leave much to the imagination.
You start playing with them—squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons—moving them around, flipping them over, seeing how they fit together.
A dark gray circle on each of the rectangles seemingly tells us where to place a cup, flowerpot, or other item.
The other group of blue paintings, collectively titled "Shroud," is characterized by one or more small blue rectangles within the painting.
It's a general media question, because we've gone from viewing in theatres and TVs to viewing on little 5-inch rectangles.
The speakers themselves are small rectangles (sitting vertically like a Sonos One) and come in a pair, along with two remotes.
The dense, small-font text rectangles contain more information than viewers are likely to process, if they read them at all.
During the Second World War, many of the Louvre's paintings were evacuated to the countryside, leaving rooms full of empty rectangles.
Unless, of course, you happen to have a burning desire to coat a square kilometer of the planet with black rectangles.
By the next evening, the flower was surrounded by circles of deep blue and pink and rectangles of turquoise and gold.
For his current exhibition, he constructed layered space in his paintings by arranging different-sized, monochromatic rectangles atop of each other.
Unwrap the puff pastry and, following the fold lines, cut each sheet into 6 rectangles, then cut each rectangle in half.
Top 12 of the rectangles with about 1 tablespoon of filling, making sure to leave a small border at the edges.
On social media, in apps and on websites, badge design was more creative, appearing as little speech bubbles or as rectangles.
These are little golden boxes made of thin rectangles of potato stacked like Post-it notes, then fried in beef fat.
Scarpa solved the regulation against substantially increasing the size of the house by stacking the upper floors in ever-smaller rectangles.
The two on either side are deep rectangles the shape of new graves, and almost as hard to get out of.
The front end of the Vision iNext features a new version of BMW's trademark "kidney" grill, which features two rounded rectangles.
Some of my own family quilts are gorgeously complex, but others are barely more than plain rectangles sewn in a row.
Instead of just printing on plain old, white shiny rectangles you can print on rainbow colored film or even emoji plastered film.
The brand is replacing its recognizable logo and etching 25 popular emojis into the rectangles that make up its milk chocolate bar.
The tonal shift from the off-white ground to the white rectangles makes you conscious of the widening field of your attention.
The name for the sleek rectangles came from a copywriter who thought they resembled the activity pods in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Sonia Delaunay is represented by a glorious collage of colorful forms (circles and a maze of rectangles) and textures evoking patterned fabric.
What a design choice, to tilt the screen like that and form the rest of the device from prism-like complementary rectangles!
The only thing returning is the Nokia logo slapped on a bunch of commodified rectangles as part of a brand licensing strategy.
To plate the dish, she slices the frozen semifreddo into rectangles, and carefully spoons a dollop of the vibrant curd alongside it.
What about the layered golden rectangles in different viscosities — from evanescent to gloppy — that take up the middle section of the painting?
What about the other paintings of horses in the show, in which there are flags made of stripes and rectangles (abstract paintings)?
"Geometric shapes, such as squares or rectangles, appeared in these images, forms that can hardly be attributed to natural phenomenon," LaRocque said.
It makes a good punk point of trashing the past while recalling nouveau-réalist sculptor César Baldaccini's rectangles of compressed consumer objects.
The result is a vastly different user experience, even though they run the same version of iOS on large rectangles of glass.
In other words, the weird little gadgets and toys that remind you that tech doesn't have to conform to perfectly chamfered rectangles.
Though the video is playful, there are moments when I wonder if that stack of rectangles will topple under a performer's weight.
"One Hundred and One Rectangles" 2016, Las Vegas Sam Byford Digital photography, GIF, a lot of objects with screens at CES h2.
A fourth, nonmetal piece,"Above Below Betwixt Between," is an installation of flat, black rectangles made by applying paint to Belgian linen.
During a recent tour, he opened one of his dozens of drawers and revealed a blaze of red, teal and blue rectangles.
One of the most unusual features is in the dining room: a coffered ceiling with a pattern of squares, rectangles and circles.
Their overlapping squares and rectangles contain the depth and translucency of stained glass; we seem to look through rather than at them.
The free Chrome extension was released in 2014, and transforms the web into an abstract collage of bright rectangles in randomized colors.
The exposed rectangles make the panel seem as if the sections of the painting have been glued together to make the whole.
From this screen, he connected a series of rectangles with short white lines to allege a Fusion-powered megaconspiracy against Mr. Trump.
Now pumps are run by diesel, not wind, but the polder landscape of small rectangles of land surrounded by drainage channels remains.
Clearing of the neighborhood has been underway for weeks, pieces of the ashen chaos slowly giving way to rectangles of fresh dirt.
In the days and weeks following, long after I returned home, I saw rectangles everywhere — counter, bed, ceiling, blanket, book, cover, page.
The panels echo an earlier project by Mr. Beshty in which he "created" shattered sculptures by shipping glass rectangles in FedEx boxes.
Seurat attained it by reducing the figures to elegant, repeating silhouettes and their backdrop to a series of echoing rectangles and ovals.
But, in all of them, she manages to maintain the self-contained self-evidence and untethered potential of more ordinary flat rectangles.
Recurring rectangles covered with bright streaks and blobs of color look like miniature abstract paintings or clay tablets or even photo frames.
Dunham's drawing (and later printmaking) activities ran parallel to "The Age of Rectangles" and related paintings and remain equally important to him.
At the Johannesburg gallery Afronova's booth, two joyously patterned red rectangles of fabric, known as kangas in South Africa, hang on the wall.
While Chihuly's rectangles do not break new artistic ground, now or in 1975, their arrangement on the pond is pleasing, subtle, and evocative.
A human face quite literally, as the red vessel launched with black rectangles looking like eyes with a white smile on the bottom.
Her choice of shape, whether extreme or adhering to recognizable rectangles, is generated by a wide range of non-traditional applications of paint.
One, collectively titled Serie Every Day (Every Day Series), consisted of vertical rectangles, while second, made up of tondos, was titled Serie Radial.
While the choice of colors seems to follow no order, the wedged-in rectangles and L-shapes anchor each corner of the painting.
The shifts between the sectioned areas can be tonal or sharp, but the vocabulary is solidly geometric: trapezoids, parallelograms, triangles, rectangles, and squares.
She was interested in merging rigorous control with chance accidents, as evidenced by the imperfect surfaces of the rectangles, especially alongside the grooves.
Nine variously-sized black rectangles, each in the dimensions of the lost artwork, have been painted onto 210Artspace's entryway wall as memorial placeholders.
Marbleized, striated, puddled, encrusted and spattered paint adorns differently colored and patterned fabric rectangles, which are pinned to the walls unstretched and unframed.
Apple also built a detector for humans, which can take an image as input, and draw rectangles around any people in the picture.
There are places where the paper isn't painted at all, and others where the rectangles are covered with a rapid welter of lines.
They are pink like bubble gum (they're tinted with carmine, a red food coloring) and shaped like rectangles (they're baked in special molds).
He used only primary colors and black, white and gray, only painted squares and rectangles, and only employed straight horizontal or vertical lines.
Just two years later, he was painting beautiful and blocky technicolor paintings that emphasized a vertical geometry of rectangles and the occasional curve.
The monochromatic surfaces of earlier, smaller paintings shift about, becoming squares or rectangles within larger compositions — except that their edges are weirdly raised.
Dots forming a pattern inside the rectangles contain a secondary, differently colored dot within it, though the logic of the change isn't clear.
In her abstract painting series, she employs a single vocabulary of forms with often-unusual palettes: rectangles, stripes, waves, and circles of color.
On most page spreads, painterly rectangles from different eras overlap to create visions, hauntings, explanations of déjà vu that echo throughout the room.
Then I noticed two ragged rectangles of dried, blackened adhesive on the door frame, one just above and one just below the button.
The documents lie empty, with squares and rectangles that seem like draconian measures of information that insist it fit into the particular shape.
For drawers, we prefer Tetris-able modular sets, with a mix of smaller cubes and longer rectangles, like the InterDesign Kitchen Drawer Organizer.
In early 1980s, Araeen developed a method of combining photographic images with painted images in a grid of nine rectangles stacked in three rows.
The Viksletta site: red circles show locations of the burial mounds, orange rectangles the longhouses, and the green eye-shaped object the ancient boat.
There are color-coded rectangles (red, orange, green, blue) in which stencils and spray paint have been used to note the time and date.
In the room behind him, rectangles of his work crowd the wall from floor to ceiling, a map of his long life in art.
He built a massive Pong game IRL that looks like an air hockey table, but instead of controlling whack pucks, users maneuver white rectangles.
Entire pages are obscured under heavy grey rectangles; images of British landmarks become devoid of context, a reference to a "sexy Leslie" puzzlingly orphaned.
Now, to remember the tragedy, people can walk through Aberfan's well-tended cemetery and gardens of remembrance, which is shaped in classroom-sized rectangles.
During my travels, I saw many new drill pads with over 20 separate wells—encompassing huge clear cuts or rectangles of former agricultural land.
In each one, she is intent on discovering what can be done with a line, and with geometric structures such as squares and rectangles.
The roof canopy is made of wooden slats in a system of interlocking rectangles, some of which are peeled upward to draw in light.
Wouldn't it be better if instead I saw row after row of shirts folded neatly into plump little rectangles, each standing vertically on end?
In a small space, he suggested, "design on a grid," using squares and rectangles, rather than circles, to take advantage of every square inch.
The process involved laying 91 truckloads of Missouri limestone that had been hammered into squares and rectangles to fit the exterior's English Ashlar pattern.
Meet Color Chat: an app which lets you DM with your friends by sending colored rectangles of various sizes and hues back and forth.
On my phone, Instagram is a series of squares and rectangles with pictures of babies, clogs, books, lakes and buildings, buildings and more buildings.
Ms. Jaffe started running in rectangles in the late 1980s because she didn't want to stray too far from her young children at home.
An odd image flashed in my mind of the headstones at Arlington, all those little rectangles, each one a reminder of sacrifice and loss.
With their hard angles and symmetrical positioning, the rectangles are not trying to pass as organic and yet they suit — enhance, even — the pond's environs.
A Roth painting can have wildly demanding outer shapes that resemble the state boundaries, or they can be subtle trapezoids, or, though infrequently, conventional rectangles.
It features three black, vertical rectangles each containing a set of bone-white swirls and squiggles that recall Pablo Picasso's Surrealist works from the 1920s.
Yet since the majority of the card stock models are basically big rectangles — thanks Le Corbusier for your Cité Radieuse influence — they're not too complicated.
The scientists' insight was not to fold the panel at right angles, which produces rectangles between folds, but at a slightly skewed angle, producing parallelograms.
In yet another projection, the four rectangles are repeated along the top, and each section is filled with a negative of the image below it.
The square version is almost entirely gray, until you realize the bits of pink, red, and green emanating from the ricocheting rectangles' carved-in edges.
His cuts were strategic: neat rectangles whose clean lines contrasted with the decay around them, even as their geometry echoed nearby windows and door frames.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's dazzling "Two Women Dreaming" (1990) is composed of four concentric rectangles in yellow, black, and white that evoke two pairs of hypnotized eyes.
These two-story barracks are rectangles of cinder block and concrete, built around a central courtyard and enclosed by high fences topped with barbed wire.
To make each mat, volunteers cut and roll the bags into strips they have dubbed "plarn" (plastic yarn), then crochet the strips into large rectangles.
Conversely, the rectangles tucked into the four corners become focal points pulling our attention away from the cross-like form dividing the sheet into quadrants.
Rather, she overlays the triangles with four rectangles made up of evenly spaced colored dots, which change hue when they run across a colored triangle.
Viewed from one angle, the three rectangles of the smaller "ParaPivot II" become parentheses around the El Dorado apartment block on the Upper West Side.
At least on this Sunday, the first of an untold number to come in the era of coronavirus, my den and our rectangles were full.
"45-90-180" is what Govan calls "art as math," a collection of gigantic concrete rectangles and right triangles neatly arranged on a concrete slab.
And later that year, when we get to "Untitled (Multiform)" (1948), which floats monochromatic rectangles on a background, we come to a signature-style Rothko.
"The layout in 19120 is just more homey and has that prewar feeling, as opposed to new construction, which has adjoining rectangles," Ms. Balkan said.
Apparently women dislike rectangles, so just give me a sparkly crystal to wear around my neck so I can be the magical girl of my dreams.
The new logo does away with the tilted hashtag/pound symbol of overlapping translucent colors in favor of a symmetrical arrangement of rounded rectangles and pins.
The rest of the painting is mostly filled with triangles and trapezoids — angled shapes echoing the triangle — though Lerner has interspersed a few rectangles among them.
The fragile, golden and silver scrolls - which once unrolled look like rectangles of foil similar in size to a sweet wrapper - may never be fully understood.
Click here to view original GIFIn the corporate world, business cards are rarely nothing more than empty white rectangles with a few words printed on them.
The distortion is really crazy to see because black and white squares turn into alternating white and black rectangles and diagonal lines can become crazy squigglies.
They don't jump out at the viewer; rather, they hold a quiet aura that stems from the dependable contiguousness of the rectangles within a square space.
It means that if you're watching a video on YouTube in full screen, there will be black rectangles on the left and right of the video.
The works reference naturalistic forms like olive trees and shapes like rectangles, which, for Halaby, contain strong symbolic references to social justice and the Palestinian people.
This particular canvas is somewhat representative of the group, as it is defined by rough-hewn vertical rectangles, their edges jagged and vague, their dimensions irregular.
The room itself is an interlocking series of monochromatic rectangles, which section the space off, adding to the feeling of isolation that runs through the composition.
And then there's my arrangement of olives, fennel and miniature citrus—with added noise, perfume, and tactile rectangles—all of which I'm attempting to take in.
In fact, his pictures resonate closely with Joan Mitchell's floating rectangles — as in "Closed Territory" (1973) — and the acidic planes, grids, and drips of Mary Heilmann.
There is also a large, pink, peanut-shaped cloud in oil crayon occupied by two small red irregular rectangles containing a black shape in their center.
You know, if you go back 40 years ago, 1.43 years ago maybe, you had you had Pong, that was just two rectangles and a square.
Her eyes left his face and with what seemed a quadrupling in depth came following his to rest on those rectangles of warmth alive like blood.
You can even order a Bauhaus-style pastry made of squares and rectangles of cake in primary colors at Plato's restaurant at the Aspen Meadows Resort.
In the early painting "Natica" (1946), she divides the horizontal canvas into a field of different-sized diamonds, rectangles, semi-circles, triangles, and irregular geometric forms.
As our gadgets become more sophisticated, they also become homogenized; at this point, most people are toting around slick glass rectangles of technology, of slightly varying sizes.
In "Second Sight" (2017), the eccentric shape of the wood panel support seems to have been derived from two different-sized rectangles partially sharing a single edge.
You can resize many of them like regular windows instead of being forced to look at either weird phone-sized rectangles or blown-up full-screen versions.
Kokichi Sugihara's 'Rectangles and Circles' illusion is a mind-bending visual trip that turns squares into circles and circles into squares right in front of your face.
At the same time, the elongated size of the rectangles and their close spacing evokes something different and less innocuous than the act of freezing a film.
Not wanting to make the growth of the characters a digital effect, I cut the smaller character sets into rectangles and removed the white paper in photoshop.
Cellphones are rectangles of glass these days because all of the innovation has been flopped on top of what used to be a jungle of variegated systems.
The drawings' shadowy surfaces, which partially obscure the depicted scenes, maintain a Perecian reserve that's in keeping with the mood of the black rectangles they hang alongside.
In both series, paintball-like splotches of cobalt powder punctuate the works, and wooden rectangles imprinted with ominous iterations of Samuel Beckett quotes enhance the poetic mood.
Its flat middle section rolls out rectangles of dough for cookies, biscuits, and breakfast pastries, and its tapered ends act as pivots for rolling circular pie crusts.
Andrés Cardona remembers the scenes in his family photo albums, little rectangles of memories as faded as the images themselves: birthdays, baptisms, weddings, Halloween and Christmas gatherings.
The Patchwork rug, a fusion of imperfect rectangles, references vintage quilting techniques, while Blok Huis nods to the simple geometry of the farmhouses that dot the Karoo.
Sporadic snippets of wavy and distorted poetic text appear throughout — such as the punning directive to "use       your/ inside/ vote" — but most of the rectangles are wordless.
Google will also only show icons in the Play Store with rounded rectangles, just like iOS, which gives the whole storefront a more cohesive and consistent look.
"For part of its existence, it was painted in vivid colors of pink, green, blue, black and white, in geometric patterns — squares and rectangles," Mr. Christenson said.
Rectangles and circles of black fill the galleries at Blum & Poe, pushing back against negative ideas about black as inferior or subordinate, even as a color value.
In violation of the tenets of American abstraction, he embraced the frame, emphasizing its presence by painting on it directly, or including framing rectangles in the painting.
"D-1" measures 17 by 109 inches: two narrow horizontal rectangles delineated in pencil, within which Reed has laid down long, single strokes of black acrylic paint.
Some diptychs feature dark rectangles of impenetrable ink — including Jack Kerouac's Big Sur — some pages are tattered with gaping holes, such as John Rechy's City of Night.
Alongside the bold colors, baroque forms, and showy gestures of Chihuly's mature style, the subdued Minimalism of the "Koda" rectangles seems the work of an entirely different artist.
Instead of confining its insulation to a bunch of little rectangles, Patagonia's designers used lines of strategically placed stitching to guide strands of PlumaFill throughout the jacket's interior.
Breaking down your fear of wild animals is all about examining the sum of their parts — or just looking at them as furry piles of triangles and rectangles.
As the performance begins, Hall selects a few objects, a stack of thin, white, geometric forms that look like rectangles with the edges rounded off or angled out.
Use a rolling pin to roll each piece into flat rectangles, a little over ¼ of an inch thick, 4-5 inches long, and about 1.5 inches wide. 5.
Even a little screen time can be so deeply addictive, some parents believe, that it's best if a child neither touches nor sees any of these glittering rectangles.
In these two-color works, fattish rectangles and squares hug the edges of the paintings at uneven intervals, always in progression from small to large, like boxy spirals.
The way he varies the density of the dots — from rectangles filled with a single color to fluctuating patterns abutting each other — represent Williams at his painterly best.
Yet it predicts cosmological triangles, rectangles, and other shapes of all sizes that tell a sensible story of quantum particles arising and evolving at the beginning of time.
Even if you don't have any fond memories of flip phones, you can still appreciate that it's something different from the usual featureless rectangles most phones have become.
The felt sheets start as rectangles, but the cutouts leave them distorted and fragile, as if the only way to mark a surface were to partly destroy it.
Both work with grids: Ms. Hart's "Nebulae" (1982) is a lovely jumble of pastel rectangles, and Ms. Sekimachi's muted-linen squares hark back to the Bauhaus weaving tradition.
One splotchy, black-and-white drawing shows a pair of women's bodies with small, dashed-line rectangles appended to them: the tabs used to adhere clothing to paper dolls.
At the time I wouldn't have a new LP out for another year and I was in raging MIDI mode, ready to translate insights into rectangles on a grid.
The image on Tillyer's far left panel consists of rectangles in a variety of sizes and colors derived from a digital rendering of the left section of Constable's painting.
While the rest of the smartphone industry is busy churning out slightly better rectangles each year, LG created something new which could be an epiphany instead of a commodity.
I also loved the Spam musubi, another traditional snack that consists of a fat slab of salty Spam sandwiched between two warm rectangles of rice, all wrapped in seaweed.
The paintings Whitney is known for — which he started working on in 1996, shortly after he visited Egypt — are composed of stacked rectangles of color within a square format.
Within all but one of the rectangles Whitney laid a brushstroke or two of color, like a fingerprint, ranging from yellow to greenish-yellow to turquoise blue and magenta.
When you fly into Palm Springs, the geometry of pool-centric living is clearly laid out below, in the repeating grid of aquamarine rectangles, ovals and odd little squiggles.
The new works, relying on a jumbled grid of rectangles and squares and a palette reminiscent of the Day-Glo 1980s, are denser than those of the last decade.
On a wooden loom built by her husband, she weaves together a patchwork of predominantly red and yellow squares and rectangles, a technique passed down from her great-grandmother.
By the 1950s he would become a giant in the pantheon of 17873th-century Abstract Expressionism, painting colors in swaths, rectangles, and squares that overlap and embrace each other.
Compositionally, these photographs channel the typologists' focus on objective documentation over stylistic innovation — most are head-on shots of the churches framed by rectangles of sky and empty parking lots.
In the one main room there are small families of concrete or stone sculptures: cones, balls, and rectangles with tops angled at 45 degrees (like New York's Citigroup Center building).
It explains the discarded vehicles rotting alongside major intersections, and the rectangles of sturdy workers' barracks nested between broad, dust-swept avenues — as well as the ubiquity of security forces.
Instead of making three-dimensional works for the wall or slopping paint on a broken surface, Petersen accepts that a painting is a flat surface and, in these works, rectangles.
In "Natural with Two White Rectangles Far Apart" (2018), he locates two vertical bars on the far ends of a painting that measures 17 ½ inches high by 85 ½ inches wide.
As part of the new AR update, Apple also introduced a new app called Measure, which allows for taking the dimensions of objects, measuring lines across surfaces, and detecting rectangles.
The lines intersect and overlap in complex and seemingly unpredictable ways as they emanate from the black rectangles that generate them, suggesting large geometric figures on the wall or floor.
Sure, some of the rectangles are now reserved for hybrid cars or adorned with an electric-vehicle charger in some places, but their basic function is still to store automobiles.
Made of wood and painted white, Elizabeth Atterbury's pristine "Court" (2017) stands in the middle of the floor, a large rectangle sectioned into discrete rectangles by vertical and horizontal bars.
By the time you get into the reasonable gridded streets uptown, you're already in a city firmly in its imperial mode, projecting reasonable rectangles all the way to the horizon.
"The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had pong, two rectangles and a dot," Musk said.
The ceramic wall reliefs have beveled sides and are marked with shapes evoking bowties and tables or combs, along with circles, triangles, rectangles, bands of different widths, diamonds, and zigzags.
To use the Picture in Picture mode, open a compatible video and, in the tool bar of playback controls, click the icon on the right that looks like two rectangles.
The rectangles of the larger "ParaPivot I," especially while you're looking south, chop Midtown into morsels of architectural appreciation or financial critique, depending on your view (politically and optically speaking).
Maybe it's the color blue; maybe it's clouds; maybe, however many generations from now, it's the orange electrical grids of alien cities, the black rectangles of their lightless Central Parks.
We find the girl living in an apartment in a cool blue city full of orderly rectangles and people bustling on the street, many lost in their headphones or screens.
The Gwaun Valley trout is served with the restrained minimalism of a Japanese delicacy: four translucent rectangles of mushroom-cured fish, interspersed with parsnip medallions and finished with fried rosemary.
The square and rectangles motif, designed by Georges Meurant, a Belgian artist, acknowledges the importance of color to national identity while avoiding patterns that recall any individual member state's flag.
The loosely gridlike compositions, though mostly nonfigurative, contain distinctly windowlike rectangles; with their thick crusts of paint and overlapping eddies of garish color, they look like plastics warehouses on fire.
In "Black Center" (2017), a full spectrum of brightly colored, right-angled shapes (bars, rectangles, stepped and L-shaped forms) swarm around a black rectangle, pressing into and overlapping its corners.
It's not quite as speedy as robots designed to solve smaller 3x3x3 cubes, but let's see you unscramble the 729 squares and rectangles on a 9x9x9 cube in just 33 minutes.
He studied graphic design at art school and has turned his cart into a Constructivist arrangement of rectangles, with the white, red and black color scheme of a Soviet propaganda poster.
There is a tension between the blue-edged, orange cross and the four small rectangles it tucks into the drawing's four corners, each bordered by multiple, differently colored L-shaped bands.
The painted concentric rectangles present a large cavity (for all her playfulness, Cowansage opts for deliberate straightforwardness when it comes to titles) that's luminescent with soft, subtly shifting shades of orange.
Hansel & Gretel begins in the massive Drill Hall, where drones buzz overhead and the space is nearly pitch black, but for gridded rectangles of light on the floor and periodic flashes.
In 1966, Ron Gorchov, who had had three exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy between 1960 and 1966, began a series of works he collectively titled Arguments with Rectangles, Flatness, and Dimension.
By 1981, when he could make art full time, he had flattened his assemblages into thick, painting-like rectangles, adding softer materials, especially hooked rugs and clothing, as well as paint.
Early works on paper here — such as a pair of collages from 1961 that feature notched rectangles of pure red — disclose the influence of Russian Suprematism on Ms. Molnár's nonobjective art.
There is a large, stainless-steel kiln in one corner and next to it, a rolling cart stacked with small rectangles of stoneware, like so many cookies fresh from the oven.
For the show, Rasheed arranged variously sized black-and-white paper rectangles along the room's narrow parallel walls, as well as in adjacent vitrines, in a manner that recalls a timeline.
Surgical masks, also called procedural masks when worn outside the operating room, are usually soft, pleated rectangles secured to the face with strings or ear loops and pulled under the chin.
While we color chatted, we each separately wrote down a transcript of words that corresponded to our chosen rectangles and how we each "read" the other person's rectangle, in real time.
Giving up paint, she began making her "Pénétrables," rectangles of stretched canvas with canvas attachments into which viewers could insert their arms, legs or heads, becoming literally at one with art.
Combined with my desire to use HUGO WEAVING (for whom I had no matching 11), that meant I could not use a 14x16 grid, which forced the rectangles in the corners.
Among the likely witnesses is Domenico De Sole, chairman of Sotheby's, who with his family paid $8.3 million for the fake Rothko, "Untitled, 1956," a painting featuring large red and black rectangles.
But after you've evaluated every item in your home for its ability to spark joy and folded your clothes into rectangles, how do you avoid falling back into the same messy lifestyle?
The very first offering was Tempres, an abstract puzzle requiring careful timing to illuminate a series of rectangles, by Takorii (who also created The League of Lonely Geologists previously covered on Hyperallergic).
Each consists of two abutted but unmatched supports, with one hanging down or rising above the other, with hard-edged rectangles consisting of a single color painted between empty expanses of canvas.
In Johns's paintings and prints titled "Corpse and Mirror," some of which are sectioned into six rectangles, one rectangle imperfectly mirrors the one adjacent to it, establishing a series of visual echoes.
In both works, pale red and blue rectangles are placed alongside one another, but separated by thin strips of white and graphite lines, which make the canvases shimmer with a relaxed energy.
Incumbents like Samsung can't afford to increase the purchase price on a commodified item because consumers would just buy their large glowing rectangles from lower-priced competitors like HiSense, Seiki, or TCL.
Photo:Barney Hindle©2016 CASS Sculpture Foundation, Wang Yuyang, Identity, 2016 "The shapes of the sculpture are the twisted rectangles or circles function in the program," explains Yuyang to The Creators Project.
She experimented with printing the London maps on long rectangles of fine cotton, and using linen as a backing material to create the unisex look of her debut City on Cloth collection.
Instead, I looked on in shock as one of the monks began to move a feathery brush over the mandala, swirling together the gold and the navy, the circles and the rectangles.
There are photos of cakes a few women in this village can make for you: rectangles of yellow cake and devil's food enrobed in buttercream, with local nicknames piped out in pink.
The only thing in the windowless 170-square-foot entry, for instance, is a 16-foot totem that Toogood fashioned from stacked plaster rectangles in chalky shades of gunmetal, charcoal and ivory.
That leads to a visit to a high school and some ridiculously unsuccessful efforts to sell students there on the idea that the world outside of their electronic rectangles is worth exploring.
In 1906, the psychologist Edward L. Thorndike found that rigorous practice helped students' ability to estimate the areas of rectangles, but it did not help them estimate the areas of other shapes.
When Ray stacks up rectangles of color in a painting like "Marfa Exterior" (2018), she is merging Judd's modular "stacks" and interest in light — evidenced particularly in his use of Plexiglas — with hers.
Next to "Summit," 180 replicas of Thatcher's handbag sit across six rectangles of white cloth in an installation titled "Not a Shield, but a Weapon" by the Filipino, London-based artist Pio Abad.
He cut black pieces of paper into rectangles to place atop the specimens in his slides, then positioned his camera over the microscope's lens to photograph what lay beneath, magnified at 2,000 times.
Each sculpture, made of wood, red fiberglass and black-matte aluminum or steel, is a set of interconnected rectangles, like a 3D Mondrian, that function as a table, bed, counter and room divider.
At regular intervals, the stage goes black, and when the light returns it's in the form of two vast, illuminated red rectangles, one within the other, crackling and burning in the dark. Mrs.
The first peaked in the mid-nineteen-sixties, when she was living in New York, with the public success of the grid pictures—typically, uniform rectangles pencilled or incised on painted square canvases.
Libro No. 1, 1972 is representative in this regard: 37 pages of narrow black rectangles, lineated and clustered together in groups that resemble inverted bar graphs, as well as redacted stanzas of poetry.
At the same time, you can see from the colors flaring out along the edges of the rectangles that he worked for some time on the painting, and that it didn't just arrive.
The diagonal orientation of the partial rectangles (or eccentric shapes) – with their edges cropped by the painting's physical edges – breathes instability and incompleteness into the composition, almost making the work seem like a fragment.
Apple has been at the forefront of evolving what apps look like, and one of the biggest changes has been their escape from behind the rounded rectangles into other facets of the operating system.
It's hard to believe I used to wander around this city, subway map in hand, completely unaware that people were using sleek little rectangles to absolutely bludgeon each other with subtle but pointed cruelties.
In the years that separate his monochromes of the 1960s from the gestural paintings he first made in the late 1980s, Marden assembled large, smooth rectangles of color in configurations rife with architectural allusions.
The consonants are interpreted as red, orange, yellow, green, or blue geometric shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, or circles) against a vibrant field of gray, which is a mixture of the three primary colors.
The images were also long rectangles that got cut off by standard Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram framing, so users had to make the conscious effort to click on them instead of passively scrolling by.
Permeating the entire exhibition is his restlessness, underscored by the different formats he uses to paint on, from a square to a diamond to horizontal and vertical rectangles, including tall, narrow, totem-like canvases.
"The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had pong, two rectangles and a dot," the SpaceX and Tesla founder said.
I saw the results hanging at her studio, each nine feet high by seven feet wide, and terrific: arbitrary fragments of the wallpaper which, owing to the formalizing power of rectangles, feel discretely composed.
Nine years later and we have higher-precision rectangles with longer-lasting batteries, brighter screens with invisible pixels, sensors out the wazoo, higher-resolution cameras, and much faster processing, memory, storage, radios, and graphics.
Their color schemes — with a contrasting mix of browns and bright, flat color — and compositions, based on chopped-up circles and rectangles, feels appropriate for the post-Vietnam War era, which championed reductive transparency.
He decided to work small, and on the easel — initially painting on 16-by-22-inch pieces of art-store canvas board and later on somewhat larger rectangles of linen stretched over wood panels.
If you only bake cookies, the simpler JK Adams 19-Inch Rolling Dowel is purpose-built for rolling out rectangles, and you can outfit it with silicone spacers to help achieve perfectly uniform thickness.
The all black-and-white installations contain imbricated rectangles of text and image, many of them found and then altered, that sprawl haphazardly across gallery walls like wheatpaste posters on a city construction site.
The "farmers sushi," which initially resembles the Japanese variety—with generous slices of bigeye tuna—arrives not on rice but on rectangles of pressed carrot and turnip accented with the tiniest pinch of vinegar.
"Accumulation #3483," like the other works in the series, combines simple, geometrically imperfect squares, circles and rectangles,  with straightforward S- and J-curves, jig-sawed out of thin board, playing against and through them.
If every rectangle has the same aspect ratio — the relationship between its height and width — then knowing its diagonal measurement gives us a rough way to compare or at least rank those rectangles by size.
The strips of earth-toned rubber in her works of the 1970's, such as "Arsenale" ("Arsenal") — whose rich chromatic quality evokes Paul Klee's stripes and rectangles — complicate abstraction's cerebral distance with their gritty tactility.
And leather peacoats and a terrific white leather dress suspended from spaghetti straps, with the skirt made from only two rectangles of fabric, their edges left to fall in rivulets down the front and back.
They discussed the sartorial effects of "bum flaps," rectangles of fabric that frame the hips of Ms. Stefani and her dancers and create the illusion of movement even when they're not doing much of it.
Affixed to the main gallery's walls are rectangles, ovals and triangles of solid blue, violet, gold and green; some are painted, while others are whisper-thin acrylic panels, slightly mirrored and bolted to the wall.
While its colors are still predominantly neutral, a stripe of red makes an appearance; similarly, several works titled "Solar Nostalgia" (1962) see the introduction of yellow rectangles with rounded edges, as if morphing into ellipses.
Most of the replicas, though, are embedded this time in the show's imposing title piece, a grid of 80 handsome black clay rectangles that sit on an elegant wooden platform six inches off the floor.
He was especially inspired there by the economy and sureness of Matisse's paintings, but it was the works of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, with their floating rectangles of color, that he found most startling.
The contrast between the tapir's impastoed gray-black fur and the painting's flat green background is jarring, as are four red rectangles, marked with pre-Columbian-style figures, that could represent windows, frescoes or tapestries.
At the same time, rectangles feel inherently stable, and the contrast between this stability and the sense of motion resolves into a weightless, rushing feeling, as if you're diving into the painting's cool white background.
Tip open the covers of two works by Megan Heeres to find plaster-cast rectangles in the place of pages, each embedded with a tiny collection of ephemeral objects, like flax seeds and cut paper.
Electing to stay within a circumscribed vocabulary of hard-edged geometric forms — rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids — he opened himself up to the possibilities suggested by contrasting proportions and color changes along the panel's borders.
In each, the placement of abstract shapes — rectangles and stripes — is generated by a system; a system is also used to determine the sequence of color used in paintings that had more than two hues.
The same can be said of Lucky DeBellevue's exuberant installation of two abstract paintings in acrylic and printing ink mounted on a wall, which the artist stamped all over with orange rectangles like oversized confetti.
In another untitled painting from 2018, a white line zips around zones of blue, brown, and green pigment, as two rectangles, resembling goggles or portals, float near the center, scraped, smoothed and otherwise worked into submission.
Located on a pond in the Haupt Conservatory's courtyard, the study consists of medium-sized translucent monochrome rectangles standing upright and arranged in pairs that tilt against one another and let the sunlight speak through them.
From the outside, it looks like a series of sleek grey rectangles — punctuated by floor-to-ceiling windows — stacked on top of each other, which converge on one end and fork out on the opposing side.
Images of Japan's highest mountain in different seasons and at different times of day are checkered across the screen, while more nature images — the mountain and views around it — appear in rectangles passing through the cube.
But, if the teacher wanted to make the problem more conceptual and the exercise more inquiry-based, the teacher could ask students to figure out how many rectangles they can find with an area of 24.
Howey has taken everything people typically mean when they say "painting" — the rectangles, the colors and textures, the easily available aesthetic stimulation — and put it on the floor, leaving nothing on the walls but his idea.
In an untitled work from 2019, two flat, uneven earthenware rectangles are attached to the wall with screws, just a couple of feet above the floor, giving us an aerial view of their shelf-like construction.
In Johnson's "Calm Center" (circa 1949-51, oil on board in an artist-made frame), checkerboard squares are filled with vertical, horizontal, or diagonal multicolored stripes, or with concentric rectangles, or with tiny, multicolored checkerboards themselves.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHILADELPHIA — Suki Seokyeong Kang: Black Mat Oriole at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is full of kinetic potential: thin rectangles are hinged together, shapes are folded, cradled, stacked.
The 9.5-foot-tall rectangles, which are replacing the city's pay phones, feature USB outlets for charging your devices (actual charger not included), city maps, 911 emergency access, and video calls to anywhere in the country.
During a recent tour of the cottage, Michael W. Schantz, executive director of the Heckscher Museum, pointed out shadowy rectangles on the sepia and sea-green painted wood walls that showed where art had been hung.
The Little Image paintings involve visual alphabets in the form of squares, circles, rectangles and glyphs that evoke writing in ancient scriptural texts and biblical scrolls, while also alluding to intricate physical patterns found in nature.
The ESRB ratings'these little black and white rectangles decorated with letters such as T, M or E, have been part of video games covers in North America for so long our brains learned to ignore them.
In "The Floating Crocodile and Her Keeper" (2013), two rectangles are placed side-by-side, each holding its own image — an abstract totem or candy-colored personnage — as if they were the panels of a diptych.
Dragons mingle with oriental motifs in a wooden panel that wraps around the room; a Greek or Roman-style painted frieze runs just below the ceiling, with alternating medallions and rectangles that recall triglyphs and metopes.
"Angelitos Negros" (229-2245) has a spiral laid out with a rope at its center, while "Agua" (2212-03703) has small stone rectangles shaped into a snakelike spiral and "Early Life" (20370) suggests a nautilus structure.
There were forty in all, hastily drawn in a big black book, in charcoals and in pen and ink or colored pencils, each one a swoosh of cubes and rectangles, surrounded by acres of scribbled notes.
In the four canvases from the late 1990s, Whitney paints rectangles in four stacked rows of varying heights, with the shortest running along the bottom edge and the tallest at the second tier from the top.
Even in the age of Trump, even when the performative president crops up depressingly often on those rectangles, it is the shy, nerdy foreigner that can most legitimately claim to have captured and channeled the world's attention.
The green and blue rectangles each feature an additional layer of paint — brushy squiggles in violet-pink on the green gradient and four white lines squeezed from the tube to form a diamond shape atop the blue.
Here, as shown in "Untitled (Rust, Blacks on Plum)" from 1962, which confronts the viewer upon entering the exhibition, the initial opposition between the viewer and the work reveals three suspended, soft-edge, densely layered horizontal rectangles.
The Wyoming School for the Deaf, designed in 1962, featured classrooms shaped like pentagons and octagons instead of rectangles; more sides allowed students to better form a circle around the teacher as he signed lessons to them.
Writer Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes (2010) — a copy of Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schultz's novel, The Street of Crocodiles (1934), with sepulchral rectangles cut out of its pages — similarly invests the book with human pathos.
After the thighs have rested, Voltaggio slices them up into neat rectangles—what might be loosely defined as a pavé in chef-speak—and places them delicately in a shallow bowl, along with some reserved cooked chestnuts.
Price: $7.99 per orderThese are flat rectangles of cheese that are breaded and slightly deep-fried and the order comes with each block of mozzarella laid on top of each other like a stack of cheesy dominos.
The challenge presented by the simple division of a larger rectangle into four smaller rectangles, whose individual shapes echo the overall shape, is what Korman focuses on in these drawings and the paintings that came after them.
" These words can be seen in Cyrillic, between long black and turquoise rectangles set on an oblique line on the side of a ghostly train car in one conceptual drawing by Nikolai Suetin "'Long Live the Revolution !
Each of his works in the Biennial — and in a solo show now at David Lewis Gallery in New York — juxtaposes photos on disparate themes, set in vintage frames, creating a puzzle of ovals, rectangles, and allusions.
A sea of protesters in Lemieux's composition holds signs and flags, all horizontal black rectangles, no Mao portrait here; the figures in the painting do, however, wear hats reminiscent of those worn by the Chinese Communist army.
From plant subscription boxes to your local flower shop, succulents and cacti (which are all succulents, but not all succulents are cacti, a la squares/rectangles) haven taken the world of windowsills by storm in recent years.
It will certainly appeal to anyone who wants a smaller device in their pocket, anyone nostalgic for the days of flip phones, or people who just want to show off in a cafe full of rigid rectangles.
I watched as students reviewed English vocabulary words by looking up at one side of the rectangles, responding to them aloud, then stepping under the string to check their answer on the other side of the card.
Although the paintings do not seem to have any metaphorical intention, it is hard not to read them that way, even as they snap back into being abstract paintings of a grid filled with brick-colored rectangles.
An untitled painting from 1997 of a series of diminishing columnar rectangles evokes a perspectival view of an avenue lined with high-rise office buildings, while seeming to riff off the work of 1980s art star Mark Innerst.
You've played a couple games, so you know how it works, and the person explaining this to you reveals that you're looking through a peephole at a vast, chaotic cosmos of gameplay with these simple little cardboard rectangles.
Kader Attou's "Opus 14" for CCN de la Rochelle/Cie Accrorap had an absorbing beginning: Dancers performed hip-hop power moves in rectangles of light and later revealed the disintegration of the body in quivers, shakes and isolations.
But for the rest of us, the plastic rectangles are essential for building credit (should you want to buy a home or a car one day) and make paying for day-to-day items a whole lot easier.
Compositionally, she often employs irregular rectangles — a surrogate for a piece of embroidered cloth or quilt — painted on an immaculate white ground, with a wide border between the rectangle's pliable and uneven edges and canvas's rigid physical borders.
In these paintings, Whitney usually divides the square horizontally into four uneven bands of quirky rectangles, with the second band usually the widest and the fourth, which runs along the bottom edge of the canvas, always the narrowest.
Likewise, Mitchell's "Returned, Canada Series" (1977) recalls an increasingly passé, reductive position in which it seemed possible to describe the entirety of a vast country's snowy expanses and snowdrifts in terms of squares and rectangles of smeared paint.
To the north, where the facade meets Milan's skyline and becomes mostly glass, cantilevering over the street, the block breaks into a zigzag of shifting floor plates, rectangles and trapezoids, the whole building wedged onto a triangular plot.
At Branch Patty, which pops up each weekend at Artists & Fleas Williamsburg, Sam Branch and Lisa Lloyd-Branch serve Jamaican patties with crusts that skew more colorful than their Haitian counterparts, shaped into half-moons rather than rectangles.
The entrance to the 20173,22017-square-foot spa and fitness center (which offers daily yoga classes for those desiring more Zen) is marked by flat, wide rectangles of stone that seem to float on a pool of water.
All the paintings are the same width but different heights, and each is filed with a tightly packed grid of earth-colored rectangles (or what might be read as bricks) edged with black peeking through spaces between them.
In "Four Color Frame Painting # 13" (1985) — which is from one of my favorites series by this artist — Mangold brings together four narrow, monochromatic rectangles of different lengths and widths to frame a rectangular space on the wall.
The parallel forms that comprise "Pause" — the rectangles in the composition and the two panels that create the work — reflect Gharem's struggle to comprehend this tragedy as a soldier in Saudi Arabia with a personal connection to the hijackers.
I could see the neon lights gleaming like red dwarfs through the windy Welsh haze: the Spar, the Wimpy, the Esso, the Coney Beach pleasure park, the Grand Pavilion – a cluster of rectangles rising from the concrete and sand.
"Just today, there's a tray of brownies that can't be sold because they were cut wrong," says Stonehouse (in fact, I think I'm eating them—the thin, squidgy rectangles in front of me taste delicious despite their uneven sizes).
ELIZABETH HARRIS By turns hedonistic and severely formal, "Thornton Willis: Step Up" offers boldly frontal paintings of squares and rectangles, rendered with a sensuous touch, that recall geometric abstractions of the mid-21999th century, like those of Hans Hofmann.
In another moment, the two women, at opposite ends of the room, shook large metal rectangles between their hands, so that the quivering material both gave off sound and reflected it, gradually reaching a climax, then ebbing from it.
In these paintings, where the two or three rectangles ranged across the surface differ from the others in substantiality or, perhaps more accurately, insubstantiality, I feel that Rothko has gotten to a state of unparalleled vulnerability in his work.
"When folding it's important to convey love to your clothes from the palms of your hands," she tells Rachel and Kevin as she teaches her signature folding technique (roll items into neat rectangles and stack them on their edges).
Leaning up against a mound of warm sushi rice, sea urchin and Spanish mackerel tartare are some toasted rectangles of nori, and if they remind you of rolling papers, you're right: you're being invited to make your own temaki.
For a period of one year, American posted blue rectangles to his Facebook page in lieu of the photographs he would ordinarily post; the text portion of his status updates was similarly redacted, crossed out in black and unreadable.
The base plays with rectangles and portals — I especially like the three massive overhanging eaves that resemble hangar entrances — while the tower looks like four airplanes, resting on their tails, bound together to bracket the central mass of the building.
As I wrote in that earlier piece, Apple has been at the forefront of evolving what apps look like, and one of the biggest changes has been their escape from behind the rounded rectangles into other facets of the operating system.
Now, take a look at the ease with which you can theoretically upgrade Apple's new 2019 model: There's something refreshing about the simplicity of a rectangle, particularly ones you can easily upgrade just by shoving other rectangles into the side.
But what really matters is that once you wade through the spec sheets and format wars, there's never been a better time to buy rectangles of pixels — and that reality was driven home time and time again at this year's show.
You can see all 10 right here, including this marvelous little bit of trickery from Kokichi Sugihara from Meiji University (whose work we've covered before.)Crazy Illusion Somehow Transforms Rectangles Into Circles in the MirrorWhat in the sorcerous hells is this?
Its rows and columns of rectangles, each containing a one- or two-letter abbreviation of the name of an element, together with its sequential atomic number, represent an order and underlying structure to the universe that would have astonished Lavoisier.
Whereas black rectangles and other gestures of omission can make the viewer acutely aware of missing objects or people, Family Album's many depicted faces and "Attica"'s mirrored surface can make the viewer uncomfortably aware of his or her own gaze.
Coxinha, crunchy cones with chicken or a combination of chicken and the Brazilian cream cheese Catupiry; pastels, crisp rectangles with beef (my current favorite); and the slightly chewy, slightly cheesy puffs called pão de queijo, which make for a buoyant breakfast.
Some of these works, like "Tribeca" (1982), use shapes like squares and rectangles to convey the ebullience and inexhaustible vitality of NYC, via abstract pairings that portray urban movement through dynamic entities, which appear, at first glance, to be in motion.
"These browsers that were made back in the day, they didn't anticipate that people would be making CSS art—it was just the internet where information lives and all you need is some rectangles and maybe some colour," Smith explained.
Two tall armatures of interlocking steel rectangles, the taller of them rising more than 19723 feet, support heavy orbs of different-colored marble; some of the balls perch precariously on the steel frames, while others, head-scratchingly, are squinched between them.
In a Peter Halley painting there are rectangles locked behind bars ("cells" and "prisons," as he calls them, which reference social control and containment, not just incarceration) and lines that sprout from them ("conduits," pathways for the flow of information).
Müller, who studied with Hans Hoffman from 1945 to '50, began to break away from his teacher in the late 1940s, when he started covering his surfaces with mosaic-like squares and rectangles, rejecting Hoffman's "push-pull" notion of composition.
Two tall armatures of interlocking steel rectangles, the taller of them rising more than 20073 feet, support heavy orbs of different-colored marble; some of the balls perch precariously on the steel frames, while others, head-scratchingly, are squinched between them.
Lubaina Himid, one of four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize in Britain this year, paints or writes on gray rectangles that have been added to individual pages, extrapolating a poignant poetry, linguistic and not, from their existing headlines and images.
The "Trees" are painted on Dibond, a smooth aluminum composite familiar from road signs, and gradated rectangles of magenta — which, like black, is one of the four inks used in commercial printing — invest these hand-painted compositions with a technological edge.
Ingredients and order vary: scattered scallions, cilantro and zha cai (pickled mustard root); fat brush strokes of tianmianjiang (sweet bean paste) and chile sauce; and fried dough in the form of fluffy batons (you tiao) or flat blistered rectangles (bao cui).
At the top of "Like a Leaf," two rectangles overlap — one in two dimensions and the other in three — while the reticulated red rhomboids that decorate "Making It Up," get smaller and smaller until they finally burst into a ridgy impasto.
Two tall armatures of interlocking steel rectangles, the taller of them rising more than 18 feet, support heavy orbs of different-colored marble; some of the balls perch precariously on the steel frames, while others, head-scratchingly, are squinched between them.
There are two pairs of paintings, the diptychs, "Trellis Too" and "Garden in Cassis" (both 2017) and the vertical rectangles, "Summer in the City I" and "Summer in the City II" (both 2018), that I want to call attention to.
In designing the plastic rectangles, Square forwent all the usual identifying markers of a credit card — card number, expiration date, printed name — for stark black coloring interrupted only by a Visa logo, an RDIF chip, and a laser printed signature in the corner.
In fact, the east and west facades of the Parthenon are said to form golden rectangles (that is, they exhibit length-to-width ratios of phi), although some buzzkill mathematicians counter that the ratio is not exactly 1:1.618, but 1:1.71.Whatever.
" They look like little frying pans with extra handles and "when placed onto the microplate, a neuron's cell body settles onto the circle, while the axon and dendrites – the branches that let neurons communicate with each other – grow lengthwise along the rectangles.
First we made a series of calculations to describe the flight characteristics of almost 20,000 planes in the four months of Flightradar20153 data: their turning rates, speeds and altitudes flown, the areas of rectangles drawn around each flight path, and the flights' durations.
Look at the painting "Skylit Loftspace, NYC (seated)" (153), which measures 24 by 38 inches, and you see the penciled grid lines dividing the plane into rectangles peering through the thin layer of brushed on gray paint, particularly in the upper left quadrant.
Along a corner wall, the artist has affixed two Self Adhesive Vinyl wallpaper rectangles, each over 10 feel long and containing a dense, uneven grid of yearbook-esque headshots of Muslim men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War.
And in October the Palm Springs Art Museum will open Breaking All the Rules featuring her "Ping Pong Table Paintings," originally shown at SFMOMA in 1990, that playfully reference the green rectangles of landscape design, albeit ones that visitors can interact with.
The décor, by Ms. Lang, is an array of two-dimensional rectangles and frames: One of them, containing a square aperture, is awkwardly tilted by male dancers until Gillian Murphy, the leading dancer, stands within it, as if wearing an odd crinoline.
The wood bits have been whittled into very small blocks, rectangles, cylinders, and thin planes of varying height and width — all huddled together so that what seem like office towers abut residential buildings that are adjacent to grain silos and power substations.
"I was completely blown away by how contemporary they looked," said Keegan Mills Cooke, the founder of the The Circadian Press, referring to, for instance, concentric rectangles of vibrating color that anticipate Josef Albers's "Homage to the Square" series by half a century.
The Dutch painter eschewed the typical paint-splattered garret: His workspace was a diorama of his oeuvre, the walls covered with cardboard rectangles in grays, whites and his signature primary colors, his sofa blocky blood-red and black with oblong throw cushions.
"Portrait Frederick Douglass lapels," by the British painter Lubaina Himid, is an anti-portrait: a colorful composition of rectangles, each of which contains a shape inspired by the lapels of the fancy suits that Douglass's wife, Anna, sewed for his lengthy travels.
These two bodies of work show Whitney moving towards the composition and format that have become central to his work: hand-made rectangles of color arranged as stacked rows within a square format, with the largest paintings measuring 96 by 96 inches.
While Waititi sat in Hall H talking about rectangles, people waited for upwards of three and a half hours to break out of that rectangle, to put on a headset for five minutes and freak out while Stranger Things' Demogorgon stalked them through a house.
In the dark room housing "Crescent (Timekeeper)," projected videos flicker on small squares and rectangles of torn paper, some printed with photographs related to the video, so that a coyote runs across its static self, or a bird flies on top of its frozen double.
Collages from this period analyze the geometries of circles, triangles, and rectangles, suggesting visual rhythms through the variation of shapes and colors and sometimes explicitly acknowledging key figures of the modernist avant-garde, among them Arthur Rimbaud, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Kafka, and Theo van Doesburg.
While it might seem depressing that a gorilla in a zoo is drawn to some tiny screen over the company of his roommates—fellow gorillas Bengati, Kicho, and Cecil—Jelani is pretty up-to-date on the little rectangles we spend our days staring at.
His straightforward pictures of houses, barns, brick walls and winter branches yield the same distinctive observation of perceptual phenomena so characteristic of his hard-edge paintings, sculpture and prints: Rectangles float; shadows fall into hard-edge shapes; surfaces reveal evenly mottled patterns and unlikely grids.
You see it in an ink drawing at the start of the show, "Study for Sanctuary" (1941-42), which presents three black rectangles that are pushed in and then out by the concentric lines radiating around them, which also suggest stairs and elaborate doorframes.
A sculptural frame had been erected in the park — black with red, yellow and blue rectangles — designed to offer a picture-frame view of the subject of one of Mondrian's early landscape paintings, a cluster of squat clay-brick houses by a Romanesque church.
After the celebration at the final in April had ended, after every cord of the nets had been snipped off, and just after the team prayer, Wright gathered his players around him as the last rectangles of confetti were being swept from the court.
You put on goggles and you're at pool side and it's very clearly not a real pool, you look down at the ground and it kind of is made of these white rectangles and you look to your right and there's a diving board.
Titled "Module 2.2" and "Module 3.2" (both 2014), the sculptures are made up of three faceted geometric forms (rectangles for "2.2" and diamond shapes for "3.2") with small cylindrical smokestacks on top, as if they were curiously designed miniature stoves or scale models of fantastical factories.
I have no idea how to read the piece "Dimensions and Indications of the Multidimensional Poverty Index" (2016), which consists of small, colored rectangles set in wooden frames, arranged side by side to create a kind of minimalist scheme of colors grouped in homologous families of hue.
Using a Styrofoam head, they found that the type of mask that is by far the most popular — inexpensive, washable cloth rectangles held in place by ear loops — provided little protection against the smallest particles, of less than 2.5 micrometers, that penetrate deepest into the lungs.
So stripped-down and uniform are the farmhouses of Gotland's interior, no matter what century they were built in they seem to have been drawn by a 5-year-old: rectangles topped with triangular roofs, each with a plain door and a few tiny frameless windows.
The TV's still important and Google's aware that many people still watch live content on big black rectangles in their living rooms (a YouTube TV app tailored for TV is said to be in the works), but the larger portion of the pie is increasingly elsewhere on other screens.
There's scrunched-up cheesecloth, muslin, and drawing used to form the figures, but some bodies are rounded and amorphous, while others are blocky compositions of squares of color or rectangles of black that imply a body but leave the figuration as only a suggestion of the complete form.
Spectacles (Specs, for short) were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which detailed quirky features—like shooting circular video rather than rectangles—but spent appreciably less time on Spectacles' real predecessor: Google Glass, a faceputer that promised the future, but turned out to be a colossal failure.
The thinking behind this was that since a few extremely rare turn-of-the-century tobacco cards were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars despite being little cardboard rectangles with a picture of a baseball player on the front, other baseball cards could/would also be worth that much.
Castle's brilliant pacing of tones sometimes culminates in a frame-within-a-frame probing of the depths; as one's eye moves through a view of a shed's interior, it's arrested by a concentric arrangement of rectangles:  a distant patch of sky, the surrounding window frame, a bracketing  screen door.
The exhibition consists of 11 oil paintings and four oilstick drawings, all of which share the same format — a centrally placed cross of colored lines that divides the painting's rectangular surface into four sets of L-shaped bands and solidly colored rectangles locked into the composition's four corners.
In one of the small monotypes I saw at the studio, Whitney painted a loosely brushed ground of watermelon red in which he set three horizontal rows of unpainted, irregularly shaped rectangles, squares, and trapezoids, four in the top row and five in the middle and bottom rows.
Two of the show's most beautiful works, "Remembering Sarah Lockett" (circa 1997) and "Sarah Lockett's Roses" (1997), which has metal flowers nailed to a quiltlike patchwork of red, orange, yellow and white metal rectangles, refer to Mr. Lockett's beloved great-aunt, whose quilt-making was a source of inspiration.
But near the end of the score for "AGENCY" — David T. Little's raucous, passionate 2013 work for amplified string quartet and electronics, which was given its New York premiere at the Miller Theater at Columbia University — some of the notes are obscured by those distinctive blunt, dark rectangles.
Back in Vitebsk he produced abstract agitprop, like the classic poster "Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge," or else a propaganda billboard for Vitebsk's Committee to Combat Unemployment, seen here in a photograph, whose bold graphics of circles and rectangles were light-years from Chagall's soaring jumpers.
The relatively hushed works here from Clark (a collage of gray diamonds and triangles) and Oiticica (flat gouaches of circles and rectangles) barely hint at what was to come, but it's illuminating to see their art amid works by their old Carioca buddies, as Rio natives are known.
Baki lives and works in Gazi, an inner city neighborhood 20 kilometers from Istanbul's core, where many Alawites live alongside internally displaced Anatolian youth who tag political slogans in public spaces.. In turn, the municipality covers them with rectangles of yellow paint, which Baki quotes in his paintings.
Still in our sweaty hiking clothes, we drove straight to The Chinati Foundation (another decommissioned army base that Mr. Judd had turned into an art compound) to experience Mr. Judd's "15 untitled works in concrete," which is essentially 15 giant gray rectangles settled in the middle of massive ranchland.
The photocopies inside, some of them labeled in her tidy script, are cut into rectangles of various sizes, neatly trimmed to frame the only story on the page that she cared about—that of her husband's arrest, trial, and conviction for attempted murder in Lafayette, Louisiana, more than two decades ago.
What in the World They are all over Mexico City, mainly on sidewalks but occasionally in the middle of the street: green rectangles and circles, as small as a window fan or as large as a trampoline, each with four white arrows directed toward a white dot in the center.
Clearly defined rectangles aligned with the canvas's edge and dispersed across an agitated, soupy ground will always remind this viewer of Hans Hofmann's mature work; Jackson Pollock's pre-drip "Male and Female" (1942) also comes to mind, with its blocky, totemic personages crowding the foreground of an otherwise deep landscape space.
For the latter, two forms — one a dark, amoebic mass, like an oil spill outlined in yellow, and the other, a diagonal made of interlocking black-and-tan rectangles — abut at the center of the painting, peaking at the top, while three horizontal lines jut outward, simultaneously compressing and pulling apart the composition.
In the vertical rectangles she depicts a sharply edged form, made up of two or three colors, whose imagery shifts between a flat hook-like shape and an implied space — a road narrowing sharply as it rises part of the way up the surface, as seen in "Serie Every Day, 1" (2017).
Simply called "Composizione (Composition)" — a title shared by adjacently hung geometric abstractions from the mid-1930s by Reggiani and Soldati — the painting is a boldly colored series of interlocking squares and rectangles; there isn't a single diagonal present except for one bisecting an orange and blue square in the lower right corner.
Both Tewes and chief technology officer Ed Tang told me that they think it's only a matter of time before people are carrying around lightweight, light field glasses that can show us the information we need right in front of our eyes, which would supplant the glass rectangles we all stare at now.
Conceived as a geopolitical map of a near-future in which climate change migration has fomented a Cold War between China and the United States, the room's floor and the bottom halves of its lengthwise walls are covered in thin strips of blue painter's tape to form grids of footprint-sized rectangles.
Sometimes the adjoining squares and rectangles, such as the ones making up the above-mentioned "Tile S/N 2015_12_9," are subsumed into the image; elsewhere, as in the mistily colored "Tile S/N 2015_12_9" (20153), the black, linear separations between the parts are so pronounced that they become the overriding design element.
For example, last month, the office awarded a patent for a display screen interface design that consisted of three text rectangles across the top, with a text square below it, As the Electronic Frontier Foundation noted, the patent is so unspecific that even the USPTO's own mobile interface could be accused of infringement.
A thin layer of pressed local wild salmon atop rectangles of rice had been torched just enough to coax a caramelized flavor from a sweet sauce (I asked a waitress what was in it; "It's a secret," she said, sotto voce) that augmented but didn't overwhelm the pure flavor of the salmon.
Patricia Thiel, a chemistry and materials science expert based at Iowa State University, used this helpful analogy of tiling a floor to explain the unique properties of quasicrystals in this NPR article: "If you want to cover your bathroom floor, your tiles can be rectangles or triangles or squares or hexagons," she said.
He divided the picture frame into three precise strips: On top, the gabled roof is a well-balanced triangle; underneath it is a wall composed of squares and rectangles, one painted white, and another a deep-black opening bookended by two gray doors; below is a lighter shade of evenly patterned grass.
They came in a mesh of silver flowers, iridescent rectangles, bobble-trimmed cilia and plastic paillettes, all of it hooked into slip dresses and skirts and T-shirts that could be worn over and under and amid classic French basics (a camel turtleneck, a blue blazer, a black trouser pantsuit, a faux fur).
Looking at "Untitled (Dark Gray on Maroon)" (1963), which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, I feel as if I am losing the ability to distinguish, to see the three rectangles hovering inside the painting's rectangle, which is over 11 feet high by six feet wide.
Stilling Caravaggio's scene of violence, which evokes male castration, Buren's shimmering, reflective rectangles of light seem to gently wash out over the dim floor towards the painting — parts of which are reflected in the pyramid's mirrors (depending on viewer position), so that neither work reverts only to its own space and chronology.
In the painting "My Culture is Yer Freight" (2019), one of the many high points of this extensive exhibition, Williams uses a tan-colored band to outline a six-sided hexagon, which he overlays with an uneven grid of red, yellow, and blue, along with oblong rectangles divided by gray horizontal bands.
A number of writers have suggested a connection between the circles, lines, and rectangles in Jones's monochromatic paintings and anonymous tantric art, which was first brought to the art world's attention by Jean-Hubert Martin, who included the works of Acharya Vyakul (1930-2993) in the 1989 exhibition, Magiciens de la Terre in Paris.
In her hands, painting becomes a commemoration of a specific time and light, acutely registering the subject's physical condition, from the missing panes of glass (black rectangles) to the faint reflections in the ones still intact, to the washed-out brightness of the morning sun on the weathered wood and the soft shadows it casts.
Ajihei has made the shift from mostly raw to the raw-and-the-cooked, and such a bento is a modest piece of genius, one that combines a bit of cool, cleansing raw fish and wasabi with comforting fried meat and rice, organized into lacquered rectangles, in a manner our midday brains might well envy.
Along with these two string constructions, there were drawings and three paintings, collectively titled Progression of Rectangles (1969), and "Constructed Bridge" (1980–2017), which hangs between two ceiling beams, as well as a construction made of long cords of twisted brown wrapping paper and sections of tree branches, which is suspended from the ceiling.
Of course the language — but also the air, scented with cigarette smoke and diesel exhaust; the cuisine, which insisted on certain things like soup and pickled cabbage at nearly every meal; and the bathrooms, with the mysterious absence of shower curtains and toilet paper that took the form of individual, stiff, almost waxy pink paper rectangles.
This sense of aesthetic narrowness is compounded by his landmark Synecdoche (1991-2) — a grid of small monochromatic rectangles, each panel of which depicts the skin color of the sitter whose "portrait" Kim has painted — which is so evocative and art historically important that it tends to eclipse the rest of his work in the public imagination.
The central figure in the scene, a young boy, sits on a cross-sectioned staircase that is also essentially a series of boxes within which are further elaborations on this theme: small rooms that contain square cubbyholes for books, a partially laid floor foundation that reveals a lattice of rectangles beneath it, a drawer spilling out building blocks.
And yet somehow, despite many pieces that spoke to the history of the brand, especially puffer egg-shaped opera coats burnished in gold, and jumpsuits and day dresses made from two rectangles of fabric crisscrossed in front (plus some pieces that looked a lot like Lanvin used to under Alber Elbaz), there was nothing to love.
Bruce Dorfman took some chances with his assemblage painting "Nikkou" (2017) with its washy, yellow, painted surfaces on top of rectangles and squares arranged so that the vertical and horizontal axes of the work vie with each other for dominance, and the dark blue skirt in the middle gives away a small sweet tooth for the decorative.
Lewis takes greater aesthetic risks as the '40s progress, which is particularly notable in two markedly different works from 1945: "Title Unknown (Potato Eaters)" and "Composition I." In the first painting, the overlapping rectangles in the background flatten the pictorial space and focus our attention closely on the five figures sharing a meager meal of potatoes.
The backboard shape reappears as the commanding element of the piece, rendered in thick white outlines against a two-toned blue rectangle near the lower left quadrant, while four smaller rectangles — yellow with black lines, three of them depicting Matissean flora, the fourth a mesh of overlapping curves — float upwards from the lower middle region to the upper right corner.
On the conceptual end, he has made and presented his very selectively, softly colorful, and rarely very large pieces in ways that imply neighborhoods or other gatherings of buildings — rather joyfully hyper-geometric buildings, that is, that happen to be composed of pleasantly mixed proportions of circles, triangles, and rectangles, mostly, with plentiful irregular forms cut into the mix as well.
But we've seen nothing like "Transom" (21970-2362; 21 x 22 inches; all works oil on linen on panel), in which a field of blue-black is enclosed on three sides by rectangles of dandelion yellow and yellowish white, a vertical bar of sap green, and, spanning the bottom of the composition, a purple-to-earth-green-to-purple-gray chiaroscuro cylinder.
Hanging from the ceiling, Doug Johnston's modular "Untitled (Prototype)" (2010), made of foam core rectangles, could appear in a lifestyle magazine championing simple design; vase-like sculptures such as Chris Lux's tantalizingly sticky-looking "Sweet Potato (yellow)" (2015) and SNEAKYKARMA's reptilian, paracord-covered porcelain "WIN/WIN Lamp" are the kind of unique furnishings people use as ice-breakers at awkward house soirées.
I love how Star Wars has always had this obsession with making rounded rectangles, like this jail cell door here which is way too nicely designed for some throwaway jail for a fledgling terrorist, which is a wonderful throwback to 70s futurist design where everything is so much better than now that not even a door's motif can have a sharp (outdated, bummery) edge.
Their calculations indicate that galaxies and other structures are not merely randomly spread out in pairs across the sky; instead, they have a slight tendency to be arranged in more complex configurations: triangles, rectangles, pentagons and all manner of other shapes, which trace back not just to quantum jitter in the Big Bang's clock, but to a much more meaningful turning of the gears.
Born in Italy in 1896, Volpi migrated to Brazil as a child and lived for most of his life in Cambuci, a working-class district of São Paulo whose residential facades he translated into flat expanses of color: A window could appear as mottled strokes of ruby red on a gray background, or as four white rectangles in a field of blue or green.
Or I hallucinate them (they have the convincing force of perceptual truth when it grabs reality and won't let go) and see: a pronoun dog along, an adverb on the space and seam and purple is for every idiocy perfection of the abstract sea in rectangles of unaffiliated violet or pink vivacity I'm not responsible for the words, they just show up in the dream.
In 1969, Broodthaers created a new version of Stéphane Mallarmé's experimental tour de force Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance) by overlaying thick black marks on the text, resulting in an abstract dance of rectangles that suggests a player-piano roll (indeed, the concept behind German artist Michalis Pichler's 533 refashioning of Broodthaers's concept as just such a musical score).
It has nine guest bedrooms, each different — one has Art Deco-leaning touches such as Jupiter 10 wallpaper covered in a Kandinsky-like print of rectangles and squares and Foscarini Filo table lamps, while another takes a more minimalist approach, with Eames desk chairs and satin brass pendant lights — plus an additional five bedrooms on the third floor, where Costa Lopes and Fortunato live with their kids and dog.
Jason Karolak continues his explorations of linear, florescent paint strokes on a black field, but he has dispensed with his usual freewheeling approach for something more deliberate: three out of the four easel-sized untitled paintings presented here (all 2016) are quasi-symmetrical wireframe designs involving rectangles, triangles, and parallelograms that flip back and forth in space, or lie flat against the picture plane, depending on how you choose to look at them.
While any kind of mobile device resembling the MagicScroll is clearly very, very far off even a sniff of commercialization (especially as these sorts of concept devices have long been teased by mobile device firms' R&D labs — while the companies keep pumping out identikit rectangles of touch-sensitive glass… ), it's worth noting that Samsung has been slated to be working on a smartphone with a foldable screen for some years now.
The world is a cacophony of screeches and honks and hums and stinks and sweetness and reds and grays and blues and yellows and rectangles and polyhedrons and weird irregular shapes of all sorts and cold surfaces and slippery, oily ones and soft, squishy ones and sharp points and edges; but somehow all of this resolves crisply into an orderly landscape of three-dimensional objects whose qualities we remember and whose uses we understand.
In "cre (October)" (222 x 40 inches; all works 2017) rectangles and parallelograms are tossed together, some of which cohere into a set of carpeted steps (a luxe Stairmaster?), along with faux wood grain; the titular word fragment as well as several other monosyllabic formations, including "OOF" and "OB"; and an inset image of an inexplicable piece of furniture that seems to combine a midcentury coffee table and a prosthetic device of some kind.

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