Sentences with phrase «decorative work»

Some of the surfaces seem like decorative wrought iron, others might have been taken from a wallpaper pattern book.
Our Art section features the most inspiring and decorative work created by some of the best artist from all over the world!
Also included are works made over the last 25 years that allow a look into the work's evolution from soft and decorative works into harder - edged abstraction.
This clever decorative works really well in a small room.
Decorative works of art are integral to many areas of the building.
«A color used first by artists and then in decorative work, finding its beginnings in bohemian Paris.»
Just imagine it rendered in a sandstone - colour with decorative wrought iron on the balconies, shutters and terracotta tiles everywhere.
Annie trained as a fine artist and turned to decorative work after university in the mid 1970s, whilst painting murals in houses as commissions.
Philadelphia Museum of Art One of the finest art museums in America, known initially as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, its collection has more than 225,000 items, embracing paintings, ceramics, sculpture, armour, tapestry, furniture and other decorative works.
Unfortunately, it is mainly from his studies, sketches, and cartoons that the art of Stevens must be judged, but it is possible from these and from the few decorative works which reached completion, to reconstruct in the imagination the splendid achievement that might have been his in a more appreciative age.
Characteristic Colter designed features include shaded colonnades and arcades, restaurants, red clay tile roofs above massed stuccoed walls, courtyards and acres of gardens, custom furniture, and decorative wrought ironwork throughout.
This painting is one of a set of five decorative works commissioned in 1895, all of which show intimate interior scenes, Vuillard's principal subject.
Her beautiful and at times decorative work underplays the manner in which she allies compositional strength with the profound capture of emotional impulsivity.
To create her bright, highly decorative works, the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes paints contrasting geometric patterns on screens and affixes them in imperceptible layers to her canvas.
In the 1940s Jouve, who had trained as a sculptor at Paris's prestigious École Boulle, and who, having escaped from a German prison camp, learnt local potter's techniques in the South of France, began producing rustic semi-figurative, decorative work inspired by the religious figurines of the locality.
Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) A member of the Nabis, committed to the applied arts (decorative panels, stained glass, furniture, book illustrations and prints) and influenced also by Japonism, he painted landscapes, genre scenes as well as numerous decorative works.
Some of the most beautiful decorative works are completely devoid of recognizable features, while a superrealist painting or sculpture can sometimes leave us cold.
Reference points for the series include Tang Chinese pots, Islamic ceramics, and Persian decorative works.
Include decorative wrought - iron shelves to channel turn - of - the - century style and add a hint of contemporary with an up - to - date yellow pendant light for a splash of sunny colour.
Our gorgeous 49» Tiger Lily 3 - Panel Fireplace Screen features two tone decorative wrought iron with a study iron frame construction.
Museo del Prado, Madrid Contains one of the best collections of European painting (1200 - 1830) along with more than 7,000 drawings and prints, 2,000 decorative works of art and over 600 works of sculpture.
This classic color is reminiscent of the warm pigment, Burnt Umber, which has long been used in decorative work.
The hotel calls to mind a stately French Quarter manor house, with decorative wrought iron balconies and a gracious flagstone courtyard.
Indoors, the dining and sitting room are enclosed with decorative wrought iron and there is a wet bar with bar fridge.
Annie trained as a fine artist and turned to decorative work after university in the mid 1970s, whilst painting murals in houses as commissions.
The show focuses on artists who worked on the frescoes, paintings, tapestries, and other decorative work that embellished the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, best known as the home of the Medici dukes.
Sethe's tree is carved upon her back, «the decorative work of an ironsmith too passionate for display,» and Paul D «rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it, its wide trunk and intricate branches,... and he would tolerate no peace until he had touched every ridge and leaf of it with his mouth.»
Bake uncovered for first 35 minutes and check the pie crust edges and / or decorative work.
I try to keep my decorative work simple as I think this is most effective, although it's a struggle sometimes to remember that less is more.
From kate spade new york: Swirling blue bands turn this piece from an ordinary glass vase to a decorative work of art.
From kate spade new york: Swirling blue bands turn this piece from an ordinary glass bowl to a decorative work of art.
From kate spade new york: Luxe golden bands turn this piece from an ordinary glass bowl to a decorative work of art.
From kate spade new york: Luxe golden bands turn this piece from an ordinary glass vase to a decorative work of art.
The vibrant, Fauvist color - washes and overlays represent the film's most impressive element, recalling the cut - outs of Henri Matisse or the decorative work of Raoul Dufy.
Our renowned Hispanic architecture is defined by red tile roofs, white stucco walls, decorative wrought iron on windows, balconies, and walls handrails, and decorative tiles.
Chac, the Mayan God of rain, is highly honored in the decorative works at Uxmal.
Enjoy every meal outdoors around a decorative wrought - iron dining table.
A French balcony of floor - to - ceiling sliding glass doors protected by a decorative wrought - iron gate allows the warmth and wonder of the Caribbean air to fill the elegantly appointed room trimmed in dark wood moldings and classic mahogany furnishings.
Consider the most visible trend in recent years of Zombie Formalism, a kind of reductive, easily produced abstract painting, sold quickly to collectors queued up on waiting lists and hungry for innocuous, decorative works in a signature style, so much so that the name of the artist himself becomes the brand.
It includes important regional holdings from Maryland and Baltimore, outstanding examples of Louis Comfort Tiffany's decorative works, and modern American masterpieces by Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, and many other acclaimed artists.
She resolved this, very cleverly by re-asserting a more personal response to her subject by returning to a more naturalistic style and applied a great deal of what she had learnt of abstract forms to decorative work, at the Omega Workshops, and her house Charleston in Sussex.
1905: Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt bequeathed over 1,000 objects to the museum, including paintings from the Husdon River School, decorative works, and the firearms collection of her late husband Samuel Colt, as well as funds for the construction of the Colt Memorial.
He uses both of those factors to create patterns in his decorative work that not only reveal layers within the glass, but also create a surface texture that is unique to his creations.
In a review for the London Review of Books, he grapples with the complexities and compulsion behind the artist's late, decorative work.
Tiffany found great beauty in the natural world — the primary inspiration for his paintings and decorative work in metal, pottery, and glass.
Given the recent rise of a similarly trans - cultural phenomenon in the form of Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings, there's something to be said for Contemporary artists who find a way to make lage bodies of decorative work with few barriers to interpretation or assimilation.
Tiffany found great beauty in the natural world, and it was his primary inspiration for his paintings and decorative work.
This exhibition features 39 First Nations objects from the 18th and 19th centuries ranging from everyday items such as spoons and bowls to ceremonial and decorative works
In the intervals of his decorative work he executed a few small subject - pictures and portraits, and these show the same spacious artistry as his larger work.
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