Sentences with phrase «like night paintings»

The forms heaped in the foreground are dark and more indistinct, and many of the small pictures feel like night paintings.

Not exact matches

They sit in folding chairs beneath a painted tin ceiling and practice, depending on the night, selections from the Opry canon, Irish jigs, jazz, or old - time favorites like «Cluck Old Hen» and «Whiskey Before Breakfast.»

«all alone at night in the wilderness gazing up at the stars and Northern Lights» — sounds like a beautiful moment... and looks like a beautiful painting

We spent the better part of last night sanding 70 linear feet of trim and slapping on a second coat of paint and — just like that — it was done.

Children get to participate in memorable events like Wet «n Wacky Fridays and Operation Night Hoops, as well as dodge ball, paint ball and team relays.

So whether or not your average night calls for meticulously painted black glitter or a less messy alternative (try the Maybelline City Mini palette), your eye makeup will still look like you just stepped off the runway.

Keri also shared on how important it is to make time with friends without kids and some ideas on what to do with friends, like coffee, shopping, a painting or craft night, etc,.

I bought a little night stand that looks a lot like your orig dresser here, but I want paint it and use it as a stand for my lap top.

Step 2: The final step for transforming your look from day to night is to choose a rich, dark color like L'Oreal's Infallible Paints Metallics 336.

The company certainly does bond in group activities like paint nights, bowling, and renaissance fairs.

Instead, paint a vivid picture, including specific activities like enjoying a great Italian meal and bottle of wine with friends on Saturday nights, reading a graphic novel at my neighborhood coffee shop (I'm the artsy one in the Newsboy cap and horn - rimmed glasses), and / or checking out the latest documentary at that restored theater downtown.

As neat as it is to see «The Starry Night» squiggle about like a piece of background animation leftover from «Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,» altering van Gogh's paintings has a curious way of disrupting their magic.

Beatty is painted as an artist at a crossroads, too, in an attempt to trump up the mythology of the picture as a Misfits - like (or Night of the Iguana - like, more to the point) autobiographical sketch for all involved when, if we're being honest with ourselves, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is more along the lines of a carnival - mirror grotesquerie.

Peter Greenaway comes on like Oliver Stone transformed into a wry art scholar in Rembrandt's J'Accuse, his self - described «investigation» of the Dutch master's 1642 painting The Night Watch, which he posits...

Graffiti meets gestural painting, hip hop infects rock and roll and visa versa, heroin comes and never quite goes, night swallows day, and everybody looms as large as they feel like looming on the crumbling streets of the Lower East Side.

like a fine red, a grand meal, a brilliant painting... a perfect night....

«While the lush 3D location shots of a desolate Moscow are admittedly stunning, the forgettable characters and paint - by - the - numbers plot threaten to burn the entire film out of your brain mere seconds after you've left the theater,» says Daley before joking, «Remove the sporadic alien attacks and «The Darkest Hour «suddenly feels like a Sunday night slideshow of your parents» summer tour of the Motherland.»

Tick just a few more options — like red brake callipers ($ 980), privacy glass ($ 1200), crystal - effect paint ($ 1490), powered door closure ($ 1400), night vision ($ 4890) and a 1200 - Watt, 15 - speaker Bang & Olufsen sound ($ 12,000)-- and you can easily spend over $ 300,000 on either RS model.

The painting is haunting and beautiful; it depicts a schoolgirl in a hat and uniform floating above a city, in what looks like the middle of the night.

Most of the paintings here are landscape - like formats, and as noted they present the colors of night landscapes and play with the space that comes with that.

The exhibition Vik Muniz: Verso reveals not the fronts of world famous paintings, like Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night or Vermeer's The Girl with a Pearl Earring, but their backs.

The trends seen at this year's opening night were intriguing — tons of fabric and textile - based work, like Verena Dengler's embroidered canvases at Thomas Duncan and Laure Provost's spectacular tapestry at MOT International; a pull towards representative painting, like Marcel van Eeden's cake painting at Clint Roenisch or Louise Bonnet's»60s - style oil paintings of peculiar sad - sacks at Mier Gallery; and any abstract work to be found was very multicolored, like William J. O'Brien's trippy plant - like paintings at Shane Campbell and Stanley Whitney's vibrant grids at Team Gallery.

I feel like the mandala painting [Mandala # 4 (Open Night), 2016] is the most coloured in within the lines.

Looking at your paintings like «Summer Night,» one of the first visual signifiers is their literal darkness.

Jean Genet's prison fantasies, Vija Celmins's drawings of the night sky, Marlene Dumas's paintings of Wilde and Bosie and, at the show's heart, weekly live readings of Wilde's De Profundis by the likes of Patti Smith, Maxine Peake and Neil Bartlett.

I'm trying to paint a feeling about what it's like on the open seas at night — a really intoxicating feeling....

The artist's pointillist - like application of paint often evokes the illusion of night, creating atmospheric images that suggest the dark.

Especially noteworthy and striking are the «Night Landings» paintings, such as «Night Landings: Sambura» (1970), with the city grid glinting below like a dark jewel in a deep, nocturnal blue river valley.

Doig's painting Echo Lake is a David Lynch - like image of the nocturnal menace of the great outdoors; Bourgeois drew all night because she had insomnia; while Blake, long before the surrealists, drew his dreams.

In his blog at the Guardian Unlimited, Jonathan Jones reports that Tony Blair's official portrait, painted by Phil Hale, was unveiled last night at the Houses of Parliament «There's no point in fussing overmuch about the technical qualities of a painting like this.

I would stay up all night making huge paintings before his crits just to get him to like me.

Marlene Dumas paints friends, children, and skeletons in the same sketchy, muted tones, like David Hockney after a night in jail.

They start to grow apart through formal decisions, like in one painting the time of day is high noon and the other can be late at night.

To mark the anniversary of the Bard's death, Compton Verney, in his home county of Warwickshire, examines Shakespearean - themed art, bringing together paintings by Rossetti and Watts with contemporary pieces by the likes of Tom Hunter, whose photographic series reimagines A Midsummer's Night Dream in modern - day Hackney.

His first collaged paintings grew out of this process; these abstract grid - like images recall a night sky or aerial view of an urban landscape.

Thousands of tiny white LEDs may resemble a starry night as seen in a planetarium, while tubes of colored LEDs masked by a diffuser are like a Monet painting of water lilies set in motion.

At Turner Contemporary in Margate, it was framing a part of the sea by low tide at night and it revealed what looked like an abstract painting.

Calder's moving sculptures in geometric forms and energetic presence are on view at Pace Gallery in Chelsea, while vibrant and night sky - like paintings of Miró are installed at Acquavella Galleries in uptown.

Named for African - American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth, Parsons paints strong female characters, like the scintillating, silhouetted figure smoking in the darkness in her large - scale work Anthony at Night with the butterflies (2016).

Like the seven paintings on duty that night, the performer billed by the press as «the most beautiful man» soon returned to the stage, put back on his feet by assistants, and finished his number to ecstatic acclaim.

Each of the four paintings here, all measuring 7 feet by 6 1/2 feet, has its own qualities of tone and texture, nearness and farness, like various night skies.

In the North Gallery, The Fifth Night unfolds like a Chinese scroll painting, with seven monitors lined up one after another on a parallel line in an otherwise dark room.

«Night Studio» is the most modern of the paintings in this series — the character in the foreground wearing a baggy blue t - shirt and what look like Stan Smith sneakers is the closest to a pop culture reference you'll find in this show.

The walls themselves, painted with layers of flat, burnished blue - black paint, seem to recede like a dark sea into the night, while the line, lit with blue light (a technique she has used before), appears to hover untethered in the space.

Thus an almost entirely abstract painting like Stil (Style)(1977) hangs adjacent to one of Lüpertz's reworkings of a classical subject, Satyr + Nymphe II (Satyr + Nymph II)(2014); and one of his many portrayals of the human back, Nacht (Night)(2013) hangs next to a painterly treatment of building materials, Holzschindeln — dithyrambisch (Wood Shingles — Dithyrambic)(1966).

These paintings are accompanied by quieter moments — a swirling, toothpaste - like wave breaking on to a shore, a black night sky, bare feet reflected in puddles on the beach.

«Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860 - 1960» chronicles the ways that American artists painted and saw the night at a time when electricity was changing what the evening sky looked Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860 - 1960» chronicles the ways that American artists painted and saw the night at a time when electricity was changing what the evening sky looked night at a time when electricity was changing what the evening sky looked like.

Protected by a Plexiglas box, like the Mona Lisa, it has been given a prominent perch opposite van Gogh's «Starry Night» in the fifth - floor painting and sculpture galleries.

The show will feature Crehore's signature dream - like sequences of iconic nudes and playful animal characters painted on linen and rare 1920's ukuleles. Opening night will also feature a live performance of blues, rags, and jug band songs from the 20's and 30's by Crehore's band, The Hokum Scorchers.Â

Like night and day, two absorbing exhibitions at two Chelsea locations of the Pace Gallery a block apart shuttle between the «dark palette» paintings of Mark Rothko and the gleaming white monochromes of Prabhavathi Meppayil.