Sentences with phrase «also allegorical scenes»

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It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.