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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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Johnson uses this model to place figure and ground or literary work and interpretative strategy in a dialectic in which the strategy engages the text and the text critiques the limitations of the strategy.
The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender by Tate, Claudia / African American Review
AARON has progressed from distinguishing between figure and ground, closed forms and open forms and performing various simple manipulations to creating today's museum quality work that includes complex mixtures of colors and drawings ranging from human forms to plant scenes.
AARON ``Cybernetic'' Artist Paints a New Picture for Artificial ... by Business Wire
Figure and ground oscillate and in so doing encourage us to question how these might frame, interrupt, negate, or even reconstitute one another.
Ian Wallace: Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute by Mahovsky, Trevor / Artforum International
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