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figure and ground

An aspect of perception in which the perceived is separated into at least two parts, each with different attributes but each influencing the other.

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Such an art could no more tolerate figure-ground relationships than it could permit subjective paint handling or the creation of an illusionistic plastic space.

Distant light: Lynne Cooke on Agnes Martin by Cooke, Lynne / Artforum International

The architects have chosen to present the site plan boundary-less as a figure-ground contrast but it is approximately rectangular.

The rhetoric of shelter by Jones, Peter Blundell / The Architectural Review

Each part becomes a kind of figure that can stand out against the others; focusing on one changes the figure-ground relationship.

Eileen Neff: Locks Gallery. (Philadelphia) by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International

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figure and ground (redirected from Figure-ground)

figure and ground
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