Sentences with phrase «against a dark ground»

A floral print set against a dark ground adds the irresistible allure of an evening in the garden.

They really do look like diamonds against the dark ground!

Against a darker ground, with hints of bright red, green and blue showing through, strokes of marigold glow like molten metal, perhaps inspired by the many years the artist spent working as a crane operator at a steelmaking plant.

Where the darker ovals are seen against the dark ground, we become particularly aware of the difference in their colour.

Not exact matches

He also strategically placed dark - colored couches and a television against a charcoal - gray wall to establish a subdued area for employees to unwind and disconnect from the daily grind.

Another option is to pick a floral that is itself dark and let it pop against an ivory or winter white ground.

It comes in a colorful floral pattern set against the dark blue ground.

The long branches of the trees leaned against the ground and something as dark as oil dripped from their tips.

Behind the ambiguous female is a possible allusion to Munch's Madonna: a pattern of light - green sperm swimming against a darker green ground.

His curves seem to glow and expand against the darker painted ground.

When a huge dark bubble pushes up against the edges in 1976, the ground has become figure, and canvas has reached the breaking point.

Shaffer uses a shifting figure / ground relationship calling to mind the flow of energy in, out and through us, depicting women enveloped within fields of gestural DNA - like marks or packed with radiating color strokes like bursts of energy set against darker voids.

Set against a light ground, the dark image of of John Joseph Henehan Jr. that Warhol screened onto the canvas has a looming presence.

The water ice counteracts the traditional danger of living above ground by serving as a radiation barrier, offsetting fears of solar exposure that have, until now, projected Martian architecture into a dark underworld — buried beneath a regolithic surface that is believed to contain perchlorates, gypsum and other substances hazardous to human life.Water as a Radiation Shield By taking advantage of water - ice's ability to filter the sun's rays and protect against radiation, ICE HOUSE prioritizes a life above ground and celebrates the human presence on the planetary surface.

At the time she described these ground - breaking paintings in personal, psychological terms as «white nets enveloping the black dots of silent death against a pitch - dark background of nothingness».

In «Velvet and Lace (Schnabel Meets Baselitz),» from 1999, a woman wearing nothing but lacy stockings and suspenders bends over against a velvety dark - blue ground, «showing her behind,» as Ms. Dumas delicately described it in her Afrikaans - accented English.

In order to create balance, we used dark accents throughout the space, like a wooden coffee table stained in a rich hue to ground the room and a dark iron chandelier which pops against creamy walls.

Actually, I do like the contrast of the darker wood against the light back ground.