Sentences with phrase «bucolic scene»

Bucolic scenes of shepherds with their flocks, or idyllic depictions of rural life were sentimental evocations that harked back to Classical notions of Arcadian paradises, not unlike picture postcards whose images have been edited.

Nod to the 18th century aristocratic penchant for covering every surface with bucolic scenes by enveloping a corner in layers of toiles.

Did I lift this almost laughingly bucolic scene from the pages of L.L. Bean's most recent fall catalog, you ask?

James Hamilton «Such dissolving forms and delight in paint itself are matched in Turner's works, which progress from early bucolic scenes to skies of riotous swirling.»

If this photograph depicts a sublime landscape, Mettmann, Autobahn (1993) shows instead a calm, bucolic scene intersected by silver - grey bars.

In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the country: a clear stream winding its way through a green, flower - filled meadow at the foot of a forested hill.

A breathtaking bucolic scene!

I would be out there all the time on that great swing, overlooking the magnificent bucolic scene that you have....

What at first glance appear to be bucolic scenes of a pristine world become on closer inspection images of a landscape that at every turn has felt and recorded the impact of human habitation.

Bucolic scenes from trips or images extracted from videos that caught her attention trigger a process towards paintings that come into existence in a rare combination of seriousness and leniency.

Then the bucolic scene takes on a darker cast and is no longer quite so pleasant to contemplate.

It is a bucolic scene — until we also notice that the paths of righteousness could also mean the ways of justice.

In his latest novel, his first since 2000's Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje weaves a mesmerizing saga of closely - knit characters who suddenly and dramatically disperse, and are forced to reinvent themselves years and continents apart.The novel opens with a bucolic scene a...

King Tut and Nefertiti, active and healthy Miniature Pinschers, were on a walk with their owner when they came across a bucolic scene of a doe and her young fawns by a stream.

But once you have a dog, that bucolic scene can look more like a hotbed of potential pain and injury from foxtails (also called «grass seed awns»).

Nearby, William Villalongo presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

Hovering at the edges of these works are intimations of suffering and mortality which layer the poignancy of experience into these vividly playful and bucolic scenes.

In another, a round form accented with turquoise and dandelion yellow looked like a bucolic scene of a bird alighting on a rock.

Ostensibly a bucolic scene of fall foliage, the painting is in fact based upon a still from the film Apocalypse Now that shows an area of jungle being napalmed.

An exhibition of sunny, bucolic scenes from around Umbria, Italy, painted by Ella Yang during a residency in 2017.

This canvas began its life as a meticulous recreation of Johannes Itten's color wheel (which she did herself; she outsources none of her painting to assistants), which she then overlaid with an uncharacteristically sweet and wistful portrayal of a believably proportioned naked woman gazing out through the slats of a barn, a bucolic scene with a lovely sense of interiority.

Among them was a bucolic scene painted in 1815 called Crossing the Brook, which was uncannily reminiscent of the 17th - century landscape painter, Claude Lorrain's Moses Saved from the Waters.

Even when free range and organic egg production is significantly better than the battery hen counterpart, it's a fair bet that most supermarket eggs were produced in conditions that bare little resemblance to the bucolic scenes of pastures and red barns that tend to adorn their boxes.

According to Vance, these bucolic scenes also evoke interesting questions about displacement and our notions of ownership of land and water.

Lush foliage and flowering trees make for a bucolic scene.