materiality
Example Sentences
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Netscher has meticulously rendered the garment’s luscious materiality—its fall, folds, creases and bunchings—yet transcended mere description to give us a shimmering vision of white and gray highlighted by splashes of red.
It includes, or at least invites, us—drawing us into the scene as our gaze continues upward into celestial immateriality, all courtesy of the materiality of paint.
Such tool use—notably hand letter-cutting in stone, producing forms like those we see on traditional monuments—stands for “materiality, for slowness, for permanence” in the face of boardroom brainstorming and assembly-line production.
And, literally, across the street, you have Basquiat doing what he is doing, and it’s the opposite: It’s naming, materiality.
From Los Angeles Times
“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
