Sentences with phrase «against a canvas of»

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Yes, it is essential to proclaim the meaning of St. John and St. Paul through the Holy Spirit, against a larger canvas of truth, as modern knowledge has made it possible for us to do.

It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element of boys» books» for that's the moment when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief of research, leans his piano stool back against the wall of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could use their radio equipment, a wrap of canvas around a chicken - wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.

In London against Nigel Benn, McClellan didn't quit either, though the fight ended with him bending one knee to the canvas and the referee counting to 10; no, against Benn, McClellan fought until his brain was bleeding — until he walked back to his corner and collapsed, a blood clot growing inside his skull that would soon spark a renewed debate over the morality of prizefighting.

Last October he won a bit of a reputation as a game loser against Tiger during an evening when each fighter was on the canvas twice.

This can help protect against spills and liquids that could penetrate canvas drop cloths if left uncleaned for any period of time.

Like a flyweight amateur getting in the ring against the heavyweight champ, the ballot measure calling for a state constitutional convention hit the canvas hard and fast: Voters rejected it by a ratio of 5 to 1.

The latest crop of wedding dresses showcases multidimensional accents that add amazing texture and pop against an ivory (or blush or even blue) canvas.

LOVE those pops of red and leopard against an all black canvas.

Floral lace creates visual interest against the solid canvas of a skirt or dress.

The plaid weave popped against the solid canvas of denim.

Featuring an ethereal image of a chandelier against an abstract background, the Chandelier Canvas Wall Art from Marmont Hill brings beauty and tranquility to any home.

I write better than I speak... and I can imagine a canvas that only God could draw Himself, that would have only the best colors and hues, perhaps on an autumn day in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where the golden wheat stalks are up against the red, orange and gold...

Based on the legendary graphic novel, «Jonah Hex» is an epic adventure thriller about one man's personal quest for redemption against the vast canvas of the battle between good and evil.

Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, «War Horse» begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him.

To give you an idea of how WordPress stacks up against conventional Learning Management Systems in terms of resource requirements, consider the installation zip file sizes for Moodle and Canvas, which are close to about 50 megabytes each.

In this price rage, the Mirror 3 will be up against the likes of the Motorola Moto G (2014), Micromax Canvas Nitro, and the HTC Desire 620G among others.

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince.

At Rs 6,999, the Lenovo Vibe K5 will compete against the likes of CoolPad Lite 3, Reliance LYF Wind 5 and Micromax Canvas Amaze 2 among others.

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota — a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and historical canvas, astonishing for its richness and texture and scope, and for the utter immersiveness of its reading experience.

She is framed by the picture window, and her silhouette is dark against the sky behind her, its steely canvas broken only by the jagged limbs of the apple tree, Ruth's favorite.

At this price point, the Fonepad 8 will be up against the likes of the Lenovo A8 tablet, and the Micromax Canvas P666 tablet among others.

At the given price tag, the Canvas Spark 4G will compete against the likes of Alcatel Pixi 4, Reliance Digital LYF Wind 5 and Intex Aqua Strong 5.1 smartphones.

While the sun dipped below the mountains of Baranof Island, the Wilderness Adventurer provided a spectacular silhouette against the cosmic canvas of the evening sky.

From the air, the islands of Northern Queensland appear as sparkling white - and - green oases against a watery Impressionist canvas dappled with a hundred shades of blue.

Tucson - based artist Kyle Kulakowski specializes in video game - inspired black velvet paintings, a medium that uses black velvet in place of canvas, allowing vibrant colors to pop out more against the dark background.

When painting a background, I guard against it taking away from the main statement of the canvas.

Each portrait is the same size, and shows the sitter in the same chair against the same background, «yet Hockney's virtuoso paint handling allows their differing personalities to leap off the canvas with warmth and immediacy -LSB-...] offering an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed the artist's path over the last years.»

Unlike her early paintings, this small group of works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama of forceful brushstrokes, usually black against white unprimed canvas.

«Untitled (Abstraction),» a circa 1960 canvas by Felrath Hines sold for $ 22,000 ($ 27,500 including fees) against an estimate of $ 30,000 - $ 40,000.

Those curved areas may look back to Henri Matisse as well, pressed against a painting's edge like the leg and torso of a grand nude — even as that very edge takes on a touch of bare canvas that seems to change its dimensions and to divide a painting into two slightly misaligned panels.

A hint of orange against black with purple atop makes one canvas seem unruly, an outlier, even irascible.

Their lush, naked bodies are stark white against a vibrant canvas of marks, lines, and dots.

Other compositions in this series feature an assortment of shapes — including Xs and ziggurats — all pressed against the edges of the square and rectangular canvases and all similarly striped with such colors as goldenrod and cool green.

The wide range of references is intriguing, The technical command of the space, and the confidence with which he applies blocks of colour, against a mostly black canvas, and bold and resplendant use of gold leaf, owes something to the great number of large - scale drawings and prints he has made.

Every review from Jackson's recent upswing stone - raves about a series of paintings in which the artist paints the canvas of a handful of pictures and then circular - smears them against the wall.

In this overdue exhibition, Toroni has cunningly hung twenty - five square paintings from 1987, each one marked with fourteen orange strokes, at the height of the gallery's mezzanine: in the main space, the canvases are a tick below eye level, while in the upper space they're propped against the wall, as they rest on the floor.

He also likes the manic energy of pop culture, warns against it in the interest of reason, and incorporates it onto canvas anyway.

Pierre Buraglio cuts, folds back, and then paints the center of a canvas, for a vertical of deep color against the simplicity of its background and the wall.

Sadie Benning and Julia Rommel connect with the hard - edge color - field abstraction of the 1960's, pushing outward against the edges of the canvas through their innovative use of materials.

Florine Stettheimer, American, 1871 - 1944, Still Life Number One with Flowers (Flowers Against Wallpaper), ca. 1915, Oil on canvas, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Gift of the Estate of Miss Ettie Stettheimer 60.21.

In this show, most of the canvases are carefully installed while a few are left casually leaning against a wall, indicating a recent exchange of thoughts, perhaps a sale — surely a conversation of some kind.

Most of all, she could concentrate on paint, with a gesture as simple as pushing a brush against canvas.

Referencing organic shapes, his oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and paper expertly utilize the single gesture to represent an entire form, delicately balancing soft effusions of colour against the frenetic energy of the mark.

The canvases were accompanied by a group of 11 wonderful works on paper, such as Untitled (Robots), ca. 1967, in which a hand outlined in bright orange dots seems to be saluting an exodus of identical humanoids, their arms tight against their bodies, streaming into planetary space.

Metz's Pillar is just that — a freestanding, cube - like sculpture comprised of individual sections also rendered in blue dye against an untreated canvas.

Over the next two years, he began to make a new kind of picture, the «anthropométry,» by covering models with paint and having them press their bodies against paper or canvas.

An adjacent canvas, one of a series of new figurative works in the exhibition, depicts a painting Murillo encountered in a collector's home in Bogotá — showing a young boy selling fish — against Regency - style wallpaper and antique furniture.

The male nude is holding a set of brushes, and a large canvas leans against the doorway of the shed between him and the angel, who appears to be simultaneously inspiring him and posing for him.

As the materiality of the substance pulls against the canvas, and falls in to piles, the form of the piece is controlled through its own restraint, gravity and friction.

He is also known for funding his real - estate investments in this neighbourhood partly through the artworks that he sells in galleries — notably vertical stripe paintings made from the wooden floorboards of school gym floors (sourced from condemned Chicago public schools) or canvas fire hoses (in reference to their brutal use against civil - rights protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963) and also for his expressionist black paintings, abstractions made in tar in collaboration with his father, a retired roofer.