Sentences with phrase «ghostly figures from»

Yet these great minds seemed remote and unreal» ghostly figures from books or a flickering apparition on the evening news.

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One looks like a cloaked figure or ghostly apparition escaping from the white wall.

Her ghostly figure seems to fade into or emerge from the wall, making her part of the space.

A survey of painter Agnes Martin's work from the 1950s into this century might not sound very goth — Martin is known for her ghostly canvases overlaid with barely perceptible grids — but open your mind to «white goth» and perhaps then, you will find a cosmic emptiness in her canvases which, without figures or forms, point to the disappearance of the self in art.

The people in these portraits — from Francis Bacon to indigenous Australians — are ghostly, shimmering figures, glimpsed as if in a dream.

An injured warrior in ancient Chinese armor is followed by three equally ghostly figures, clearly from mutually contradictory times and historical backgrounds.

Mr. Oliveira strayed from the human figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of afigure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of aFigure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of afigure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a face.

In Viola's Transfigurations works, black - and - white images of ghostly figures emerge slowly from complete darkness eventually passing through a threshold of water into a world of color and light.

Her recent works picture ethereal, at times ghostly, female figures whose wispy forms float in saturated canvases, caught in moments of joy or fear — narratives that stem from a longtime passion for reading and writing.

Illuminated from behind, the viewer has to shift along the wall to perceive the two projected figures, which remain ghostly, even in their fullest flesh.