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A painting exhibition titled "Gradation" and the obscurely organized "Points of View" are less inspiring, and the delicate, thoughtful, though somewhat anachronistic works in the Cuban exhibition "Serendipity" was gobbled up by the sensory overload of its neighboring exhibitions, especially the roaring techno music spewing over from next door's addendum to "California Dreamin '," a coma-inducing cavernous video room that could enwrap a viewer for hours.
Marina Cashdan: The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar? Marina Cashdan 2010
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Gradation addresses one of the key problematics of metaphysics that arise from Aristotelianism: “being is predicated in many ways” (Aristotle, Met. 1028a10).
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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Gradation: The gradation of the aggregate influences the amount of paste required, the workability of the concrete, and the strength and watertightness of the finished product.
Chapter 10 1985
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Gradation of colour can easily be introduced; the design chosen is most frequently some kind of conventional flower and leafy scroll.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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Gradation of colour can easily be introduced by using a different shade for each circle of stitches, and this produces a very pretty effect.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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Gradation and cautiousness must above all become the guiding principles of the future activity of the legislator.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Gradation, as an agent of light, exhibits its loveliest effect and becomes one of the most interesting and useful elements of picture construction.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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Gradation will be mentioned in another connection but as a force in balance it must be noticed here.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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Gradation is the perspective of shade; and perspective we recognize as one of the dynamic forces in art.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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Gradation is the sweetening touch in art, ofttimes making unity of discordant and unartful elements.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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