frontality

Her frontality is a characteristic of powerful religious art throughout the world.

The wooden sculpture is of Christ as a king looking straight ahead (in a "strong frontality"), wearing a crown.

Bold scale is the norm, as is a generally exuberant frontality.

The frontality of Egyptian art is a direct result of this axiality."

Frontality is a key feature of Ionic temples.

Indeed, the tension between the frontality and the tight, active, lateral movement seems to function as a key to the mystery of light and space.

The movements here are more complex, there is a less complete frontality of presentment and symmetry of design.

They are modern in their frontality, nudging subjects off the wall and into the room, while utterly free of stylistic affectation.

This treatment of space consists of four main aspects: centering, balancing, frontality and depth.

And the head that seems to be taking shape in the bottom half of the work has the ferocity and frontality of tribal art.

Together they evoke dualities of flesh and bone, public and private, frontality and depth.

The image of the Madonna is noted for its frontality, which is a typical characteristic of Byzantium art.

In "Devotee I," vivid orange swaths vibrate against an almost equally intense blue field, creating a taut frontality.

It is interesting to see Mr. Grotjahn abandon the shieldlike heraldic frontality that has characterized his work so far.

The artist's frontality and wide eyes suggest a self-portrait by Gauguin, but also a self-portrait by Munch.

The frontality and projecting horseshoes, links, nails and stakes help make the "Lynch Fragments" confrontational.

Her paintings hark back to the early 1960's, invoking the implacable non-representational frontality of Frank Stella's stripe painting.

In addition, the symmetry, frontality, hieratic nature and the very representation of God could derive from Byzantine art, possibly via Italy.

These palettes combine Greek and Persian influences, together with a frontality in representations which is considered as characteristic of Parthian art.

In some works the motif is doubled and angled, decreasing the shield-like frontality and opening up new optical and spatial possibilities.

Dr Compton-Burnett (as Roger Hinks remarked) contravened the 'law of frontality', presenting herself sideways to the camera.

Parthian art, with its distinct use of frontality in portraiture, was lost and abandoned with the profound cultural and political changes brought by the Sassanid Empire.

The neoclassical facades and strong axial frontality of a number of these buildings transmit one message while semicircular or angled driveways transmit another."

The Parthian trouser-suit was also adopted in Palmyra, Syria, along with the use of Parthian frontality in art.

But in its frontality and mass, though often composed of cubic shapes, it was anything but cubist, and was indeed, fundamentally anti-cubist in conception".