He also learned how to give buildings and rocks the effect of volume and solidity with proper light and shadow, while using a smooth and thin technique.

It was an extension of this technique that was recommended by Ozenfant for achieving “ colour solidity ” in architecture, altering colours visually by contrast to create the illusion of solidity.

Josephus wrote: “ Although the location was generally unfavorable, contended with the difficulties so well that the solidity of the construction could not be overcome by the sea, and its beauty seemed finished off without impediment .” However, there were underlying problems that led to its demise.

:" A gritty player whose solidity reassured players in front of him and whose huge boot sapped opposition confidence, Gavin Hastings was also a player of immense spirit who invariably led the rearguard action, or initiated the fightback.

However, even prior to that year, Yale had begun to incorporate such amorphous criteria as ' character ' and ' solidity ', as well as ' physical characteristics ', into its admissions process as an excuse for screening out Jewish students ; but nothing was as effective as legacy preference, which allowed the admissions board to summarily pass over Jews in favor of ' Yale sons of good character and reasonably good record ', as a 1929 memo phrased it.

The rock is Aztec Sandstone, a very hard variety with a consistent solidity ; many climbs feature ascents of a single parallel-sided crack hundreds of feet long.

IV, p. 164 ): " The fundamental tenet of the Vedânta school consisted not in denying the existence of matter, that is solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure ( to deny which would be lunacy ), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception ; that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms.

St. Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on the Master of the Sentences thus explains its peculiar use: " Since it is requisite for the remission of sin that a man cast away entirely the liking for sin which implies a sort of continuity and solidity in his mind, the act which obtains forgiveness is termed by a figure of speech ' contrition '" ( In Lib.

More than twenty-four hundred years old, bruised, battered, worn and partially destroyed, combining to an astounding degree solidity and grace, it still stands, incomparable testimony to man's aspiration.

Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.

The shapes of the men ahead of him lacked solidity, as if the whip had stripped them of their very flesh.

The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility ; their characterization as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction — instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.

The three metallic principles: sulphur to flammability or combustion, mercury to volatility and stability, and salt to solidity.

David Hume concluded that things appear extended because they have attributes of colour and solidity.

Locke refers to the extension in conjunction with solidity and impenetrability, the other primary characteristics of matter.

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

" In the book accompanying the show, coauthored with Hitchcock, Johnson argued that the new modern style maintained three formal principles: 1. an emphasis on architectural volume over mass ( planes rather than solidity ) 2. a rejection of symmetry and 3. rejection of applied decoration.

Yet, in the children of Buddenbrook Jr., the materially comfortable style of life provided by the dedication to solid, middle-class values elicits decadence: The fickle daughter, Toni, lacks and seeks no purpose in life ; son Christian is honestly decadent, and lives the life of a ne ’ er-do-well ; and the businessman son, Thomas, who assumes command of the Buddenbrook family fortune, occasionally falters from middle-class solidity by being interested in art and philosophy, the impractical life of the mind, which, to the bourgeoisie, is the epitome of social, moral, and material decadence.

Bernard becomes agitated when Hannah and Valentine challenge the solidity and logic of his argument, responding by launching into a diatribe about the irrelevance of science, before departing to share the lecture in the capital and make promotional appearances in the media.

Its ideational luxuriance, nobility of utterance and architectural solidity mark it as one of the most conspicuous achievements of contemporaneous writing, and magnificently refute the generally prevalent notion that no French composer has ever produced a great symphony.

This apparent solidity gives the impossible cube greater visual ambiguity than the Necker cube, which is less likely to be perceived as an impossible object.

Base notes bring depth and solidity to a perfume.

The pathos of all bourgeois monuments is that their material strength and solidity actually count for nothing and carry no weight at all, that they are blown away like frail reeds by the very forces of capitalist development that they celebrate.

These demonstrate his attempt to express the tension between the static stone and the dynamic desires of the figures represented emerging into solidity from it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said in greeting Kossuth on his arrival at Concord, Massachusetts on May 11, 1852: e have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and the solidity of his actions.

The Jacobites had proved incapable of action ; what Daniel Defoe called the ' solidity of the constitution ' had triumphed, and the regents chosen by George prepared for his arrival.

Often work of this sort is presented as calligraphy -- the pure utterance of the brush stroke seeking only absolute painteresque values.

Highly pigmented with a focus on single pigment colors for the cleanest mixing results, they tend to have viscosity similar to oil paints and can thus hold a brush stroke for impasto applications.

They will hold a brush or knife stroke and even a medium stiff peak.

" This lubricates the brush stroke.

Another story places him in the court of the Shogun Iyenari, invited there to compete with another artist who practiced more traditional brush stroke painting.

* Designs with a single stroke of the brush ( 1823 ) Illustrated guidebook

It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument or brush in one stroke ( as opposed to built up lettering, in which the letters are drawn.

There are 12 basic brush strokes and the same number of related turning traces, thus each sign can be reduced to a numeric code, that also serves to describe the most likely brush stroke sequence.

In 1855, a critic described the painting's vibrant handling as " Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that supreme moment when one more stroke of the brush would have ruined everything ".

Many of the works are created by simply using the path of the brush stroke, very often using common house paint.

There are many techniques to produce an acceptable wash, but the student method is to tilt the paper surface ( usually after fixing it to a rigid flat support ) so that the top of the wash area is higher than the bottom, then to apply the paint in a series of even, horizontal brush strokes in a downward sequence, each stroke just overlapping the stroke above to pull downward the excess paint or water ( the " bead "), and finally wicking up the excess paint from the last stroke using a paper towel or the tip of a moist brush.

The amount of texture that can be produced depends on the finish or tooth of the paper ( R or CP paper works best ), the size of the brush, the consistency and quantity of the paint in the brush, and the pressure and speed of the brush stroke.

With this technique, he would often clean his brush after each stroke when painting flesh, so that the colour remained constantly variable.

This describes a stroke which begins wide and ends as a narrow line, created by starting with the brush far from the support and moving it evenly closer as the line is drawn.

This refers not only to texture and brush stroke, but to the close link between handwriting and personality.

Gum arabic allows more precise control over washes, because it prevents them from flowing or bleeding beyond the brush stroke.