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figure and ground

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figure and ground
n.
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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Kelly's exploration of the relationships between form and color, figure and ground, take on an immediacy and constancy for our understanding of both artists.
The abrupt disconnect between figure and ground recalls Byzantine icons—Lawdy Mama (1969), with its domed format and field of metallic gold, is a blatant reference—and, in the work’s billboardlike punch, Pop Art.
Circling Zero is particularly reminiscent of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ideas about horizonal interactions, and the relationships between figure and ground discussed so beautifully in his The Intertwining--The Chiasm (1968).
 
 
 
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