Sentences with phrase «ghostly quality»

This layering also lends a ghostly quality to the pieces.

Pollock's incorporation of chiaroscuro throughout the painting creates a ghostly quality reminiscent of El Greco's compositions.

2 Among the works from this time is a series she called Prescience, in which she filled large canvases with layered colors, some seemingly below the surface and pushing forward, that have the ghostly quality of pentimenti.

Here, images take on a ghostly quality: childish grimaces blend with the mechanical expressions of the faces of politicians, creating a chamber of horrors of today.

Unexplained scientific calculations decorate ramshackle outbuildings, and a funereal tone pervades throughout the game, lending the proceedings a ghostly quality.

She appears briefly and quickly like an apparition and there's certainly a unaccountably ghostly quality to her later on.

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That said, all three of those qualities make this a fairly distinctive and effective chiller from the norm, as the ghostly visions that haunt the crew of a U.S. submarine just ratchet up the tension that exists within the group and is further intensified when they pick up the three survivors of a sunken British ship — not to mention the ongoing threat of German attack.

While many of Sandback's early pieces retained a ghostly sculptural quality by tracing the contours of simple geometric figures, these works have decomposed into clusters of pure vertical projections.

A monumental monochromatic field of subdued color fulfills the role of straight - man to Prince's comic texts, sometimes presented plain and direct, sometime articulated in ghostly printed letters that seem to wax and wane in intensity across the canvas, and in the case of Untitled (Check Painting) # 13, text that has a material quality — painted over literal paper checks embedded into the canvas surface.

Fein's final pass of gray - blue leaves a shadow at the bottom of the composition, a ghostly trace that both echoes the ethereal quality of Agnes Martin's watercolors and lends a sense of objectness or weight to the image.

We found the picture quality OK, but in low light people tended to turn into ghostly blobs.