Sentences with phrase «by broad brushstrokes»

The balance and symmetry in Keltie Ferris's paintings invite their viewers to discover underlying grid formations, hidden beneath the layers of color and different styles of application, created by broad brushstrokes and smudged colors.

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With fairly broad brushstrokes he describes Jorge Bergoglio's life and election to the papacy, contextualised by helpful histories of Buenos Aires and the Jesuits.

In this case, director Bill Condon (who is literally one hump away from having a terribly awkward surname) mismatches the talented Cumberbatch and Brühl with a lifeless script that gives only broad brushstrokes as to who the man behind WikiLeaks is; you could get the same information by checking him out on Wikipedia.

It is based on a witty epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, but is here adapted with some painfully broad brushstrokes into a Frankenstein's monster of populist standards — part Ealing comedy (especially Whisky Galore!)

Never experimenting with figurative elements in his mature work, the strict geometry of broad dark brushstrokes determined this composition, maybe referring his admiration of iconic squares by Kazimir Malevich.

De Kooning's celebrated Woman painting series embodies the style of the movement and consists of large - scale works characterized by broad, almost aggressive brushstrokes.

Employing the old technique of «layer painting», Fomenko applies the practice in a modernized way and injects bright primary shades of acrylic paint onto the canvas, before awakening his subjects of surrealism with oils by using broad brushstrokes.

Lichtenstein has covered the «canvas» side with broad, gestural brushstrokes reminiscent of those by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and other Abstract Expressionists.

Her compositions are intellectually controlled and characterized by broad gestural brushstrokes.

In the latter, each painting is built up from a series of brushstrokes, exactly expressing the personality and feelings of the artist, rather than merely his technical competence: an approach exemplified by the Ming scholar - artist Xu Wei (1521 - 93), in his ink drawing Bamboo (1540, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum), which illustrates his technique of broad, bold slashes of ink and loosely executed lines.

As is typical for paintings from this period, the present work is characterized by the colliding of flatness with the illusion of spatial depth: while the folds in the tablecloth, modulation of the oranges and the cast shadows articulate Hockney's eye for veracity and imply three - dimensionality, the broad, simplified brushstrokes with which the gladiolus and the green backdrop are rendered essentially flatten the composition.

Here, the uniformity of the flags» colours and the repetition of the limited palette is undermined by the use of distemper on linen, which makes distinct each individual, broad brushstroke and transforms the original wall painting into a painting about painting.

And in this case it seems to have delivered: a broad brushstroke analysis kindly provided by Nick Grant for this article shows that when re-calculated using the new PHPP, the Beehive's space heating demand dropped to 20 kWh / m2 / yr, comfortably inside the Enerphit target of 25, while the building appears to have avoided exceeding the overheating target (not to exceed 25C internally more than 10 % of the time) by the skin of its teeth.