Sentences with phrase «glance at these paintings»

You can't just glance at these paintings, you have to spend a long time quietly looking at them in order to see what is there.

Indeed, a glance at paintings by the great Abstract Expressionist might lead you to believe he never got far beyond canvases with a single stripe.

One was on a cell phone and glanced at the paintings and then went out.

Not exact matches

If we would glance back at where we are, we might see in order to have rubbernecked so hard and so far we've been standing with high heels ground down on top of the hand painted, one - of - a-kind life art crafted for us.»

It is easy to recognize a Waldorf classroom: beautifully painted walls, soothing atmosphere, natural materials at every glance and most important, the centerpiece of the room, a beautiful chalk drawing detailing the main lesson of the day.

«We saw lots of astronaut urine,» says Brownlee, glancing at his mischievous moon painting.

From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance.

Archaeologists believed that the images at White Shaman were essentially unrelated, each depicting an individual ritual, and at first glance, the mural did seem chaotic: Swarms of indecipherable markings surrounded figures painted one on top of the other.

I think the «shadow drawing» quality makes it look like a cave painting — superficially simple, but much more complex at a second (or third) glance.

The nail may go 1/4 of the way in, seemingly accomplishing the task at first glance, but then will hit the beam and be stuck, and in the end it will be clear that it was a futile attempt to nail the painting into a steel beam, and that a different approach is necessary.

At first glance, it looks like a hand painted sign!

At first glance, that opening raid points to a toned - down Predator reference, but it's really just a paint - by - numbers scenario meant to demonstrate how pretty much everything from that decade is stilted, corny, and hopelessly dated.

«The tyres,» he says immediately, and I instinctively glance at the Pirelli rubber that's painted around the golden 19 - inch rims.

The exterior looks identical to the outgoing model at first glance, but there are some subtle tweaks including a new front grille, chrome accents, 18 - inch aluminum wheels, restyled LED taillights and a new Soul Red Crystal paint option.

At first glance, the most obvious changes to the 2011 Wrangler Sahara Unlimited are the body painted fenders and removable Freedom Top hardtop.

While the bespoke paint job and the distinct 21 - inch, Mulliner, alloy wheels might not be enough to set this Mulsanne apart from its standard siblings at first glance, the «Majestic» badges adorning the front wheel arches should do the trick.

At first glance, I knew right away that the Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl color of our test car suited the Charger much better than the metallic red paint I had seen at the Charger's introduction in DetroiAt first glance, I knew right away that the Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl color of our test car suited the Charger much better than the metallic red paint I had seen at the Charger's introduction in Detroiat the Charger's introduction in Detroit.

Bumping through a painter's opening, picking up paint at the hardware store, ransacking the library, she glanced at him, her mouth curving broadly, as if they shared a joke.

At first glance it might not seem sinister, but strip back the glamour and Las Vegas paints a sad picture - its denizens cogs in a billion - dollar machine fuelled by potentially addictive gaming.

At first glance it's easy to mistake the colorful ink and happy - go - lucky paint - all - you - want gameplay to make for the most relaxing, chill shooter, but in reality it gets quite violent.

Butler writes: «At first glance, the paintings convey a sense of joy, in the same way that Paul Klee's idiosyncratic visual language does.

Like paintings, which can be experienced at once as a whole, Walser's compressed prose (rarely more than a page or two) constructs full narratives than can be consumed rapidly — nearly «at a glance» as it were.

Kreiger writes: «While at first glance this show seems to be a simple set of paintings exploring different approaches to the expression of the human form from the 1960s to the present, the way this exhibit has been curated creates endless curiosities and surprises.

Like a procession of Japanese monks with black robes and shaven heads, the 13 late paintings by Ad Reinhardt circle a large white room at David Zwirner Gallery: ascetic, elegant, identical at first glance but subtly different on closer inspection.

At first glance, it seems like any other black - and - white painting but more carefully observed, there are traces of yellow and pale salmon that adorn severity of dark shapes, giving the sense of warmth.

At first glance they seem photo - realistic, but closer inspection reveals they are lush sculptured layers of paint.

Like Albers, at first glance your paintings look very systematized, especially from a distance, but as you get closer there's a density and physicality to the paint that makes the color both the subject and the object in a very visceral way.

A glance at one painting can reveal quotations as far reaching as Mondrian, Caulfield, and George Ault, to the legendary illustrators such as Ralph Bakshi and Mort Drucker.

The Laura Owens installation at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is titled «Ten Paintings,» but visitors won't see any paintings at firsPaintings,» but visitors won't see any paintings at firspaintings at first glance.

«In other words, instead of simply glancing at the work, select a specific color such as yellow or a lime green, and take the time to see how it operates across the painting....

Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist's visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry - like world are some of the inspirations for the paintings shown here.

In the Parrish Perspectives exhibition «Joe Zucker: Life & Times of an Orb Weaver,» the Parrish Art Museum is showing drawings, prints and constructed paintings of spiders and their webs, imagery a bit more mainstream than one might imagine at first glance.

Elaine Reichek creates paintings from weavings, like Sheila Hicks, another bow to folk and decorative arts, while Vincent Fecteau's sculpture looks at first glance like piled fabric.

This parting glance at Mait's painting in the window, with its delicately shimmering washes of blue, brought back for me one of those rhapsodic lines from The Great Gatsby in which the jazz of Fitzgerald's finest prose is both music you can dance to and a reminder, with its blue notes, that the illusion eventually ends: «In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.»

Sarabia is best known for his series of hand - painted ceramic vessels that at first glance are indistinguishable from the blue - and - white Talavera vases that tourists buy as souvenirs.

His style of painting has had all manner of description attached to it over the years, including «thrift - store,» which is to say that at first glance his work may seem slap dash.

At first glance, the works take the form of conventional geometric paintings; however, upon closer inspection, the symbolism imbued within each of Mizù paintings is revealed — they are abstractions and combinations of maritime flags.

I'd say that your paintings are deceptive because at first glance they are very straightforward, but there is great mystery once you really start looking.

October 15 Julie Heffernan is known for her lush and sensuous large - scale figurative (and still life) paintings that at first glance seem to have stepped out of either the Italian or Spanish Renaissance or 17th century Dutch genre still - life or grand manner landscape painting.

Meanwhile, drawings by Lee Bontecou and paintings by Wilhelm Sasnal at the two Hauser & Wirth spaces barely earned a glance, though the very curious stopped into a sculpture show by Canadian Geoffrey Farmer at the Migros Museum.

At first glance, Moseholm's paintings tend to look as though they are under water, they are so distorted in their expression.

At first glance the paintings looked like faithful reproductions of actual Persian rugs, but upon closer inspection they turned out to be historical mash - ups.

In fact, the more you look at those pesky residual traces of red, blue and green, which at first glance look almost like Hippenstiel wiped them from his shoes, the more they register as an afterimage of the skull in the first painting.

Although at first glance his pieces look like abstract paintings, all of them are composed of minimalistic characters and hidden stories.

People here, at first glance, have thought that the Italy paintings were done here in the north.

Additionally, the complex network of lines in a Pollock or a de Kooning, however chaotic they may seem at first glance, form a perfectly enclosed system, one that is not inconsistent with the compositional history of classical European painting.

At first glance, the blocky, crudely painted figures hewn from tree trunks resemble sculptures made 75 years ago by Kirchner, who in turn was inspired by African and Oceanic examples.

A quick glance at the eleven works that comprise his current show, City Slang, indicates a synthesis of many things: the tribal - influenced abstract painting of Steve Wheeler (1912 - 92), the comic figuration of Philip Guston and the Surrealism of the Hairy Who painters, Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum.

Nikolai Kormashov's Paintings from the 1960s 18.10.2013 — 09.02.2014 4th floor, B - wing The exhibition focuses on the first decade of Nikolai Kormashov's (1929 — 2012) work, where we find a combination that seems impossible at first glance: the work motifs and industrial views familiar from the official art of the day combined with the sacred aesthetics of icon painting.

In these paintings from his series Unmeasured, his hyper - realistic transcription of physical sites centers on the border between Mexico and the US, offering a critical and contemplative glance at border politics.