Sentences with phrase «like scrawls»

Six Crimee is the depiction of six black heads, each highly individualized and expressive, each topped by a nimbus, each hovering above abstract gestural paint strokes, a row of numbers, graffiti - like scrawls, and some recognizable imagery resembling game boards.

In his best works of the 1990s, Baribeau favors allover compositions filled with feverish layers of graffiti - like scrawls, collage elements and patches of unmodulated color, the surface overlain with spare networks of rough - hewn black lines.

Often in enormous scale, some over 12 feet high or wide, these bombastic objects are sometimes decorated with graffiti - like scrawls in gaudy colors and glitter.

It's like scrawling «I think our masters in Moscow should see this — Harold W.» over the minutes of a 1970s Labour Party conference: an egregious slur, but 99.9 % genuine.

Not exact matches

He characterizes it like this: Step 1) Scrawl app / software / drone idea on a napkin.

Hsieh has lots of other ideas, too -; displayed as 108 multicolored Post-it notes, assembled in columns, on his living - room wall, with words like Farmers Market, Breakfast Place, Community Kitchen, and Pool scrawled on them.

In this example, the digital message was designed to resemble what it might look like if someone scrawled one's name on the table using a knife.

That's right — your money may soon be graced with a haphazard scrawl that looks like someone gave a pen to Leonardo DiCaprio's totem in Inception.

So here I am, my father's daughter, as the light breaks through the forest, writing down the names of my children and my husband, my friends and even the needs of the world like our brothers and sisters in Iraq or Haiti or Burundi, and beside these scrawled names, I am writing out the words of Scripture.

I'll feel like I'm supposed to feel at this point, when everything is going my way, when people are talking about my book, when readers stand in line to get my name scrawled across a page, when I am a very.

It was slightly before noon and horse - players in the paddock area at Tropical Park assumed the postures of their trade — they threw back their heads like turkeys in a rainstorm and drank in the sun and dreamily contemplated nothing at all, or they shaded their eyes and pored over agate type in the Racing Form's columns and scrawled notes to themselves in the margins.

It's emblazoned like a superhero's crest across his orange - and - gray rash guard; it's on his orange - and - white kite; and it might as well be scrawled in the sands of this windswept strip of Maui's North Shore — popularly called Flash Beach — where few other kiteboarders launch.

It's a bit like someone scrawling a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

Any promotional material you read / view / hear for Tate Taylor's Get On Up, the long - awaited James Brown biopic the world's been fawning for since Christmas Day, 2006 (the day the self - scrawled «Godfather of Soul» passed), will name the seminal soul singer as an almost deity - like figure, epitomizing the African American experience from the early 1960s onward in musical form.

Student confusion when trying to decipher quickly scrawled messages like «Be specific» or «Needs more clarity.»

Scrawl is one I did recently that I like quite a bit.

Anybody who thinks it's a great idea to eschew democracy in publishing and only allow books approved by «gatekeepers» might think about the idea that the gatekeepers tend to be people like the moron who scrawled this article.

I know you like to imagine all indie authors as just a bunch of barely literate morons pounding random words togethers and scrawling covers with crayons, but they're not.

There's a Sketchbook that allows you to draw on the touchscreen and scrawl illegible notes, a selection of sudoku puzzles to solve and a web browser — much like the Kindle's it's slow and clunky, with the e-ink screen not ideal for rendering web pages.

For example, if you've ever been happily reading a book and suddenly found a problem that made you want to scrawl something like «Yo Ms. Author, that didn't make any sense!»

There are still a few «souvenirs» around of somebody having scrawled «Freddy Go Home» (to put it nicely) on a rock, but I like to move on and concentrate on helping the cats.

The Russia who threw Pasternak out like trash while her delinquents scrawled literary references instead of expletives on the walls of their cities.

Scrawl: «Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end.

There is a stuffed hen below a picture of Rauschenberg's sister as a small - town beauty queen, a washed - out head shot of Johns, a photo of an infant Christopher, and a heartbreaking note, obviously added later, in Christopher's kindergarten scrawl («I hope that you still like me Bob cause I still love you.

In the biggest, most dizzying painting, she lays foundation with meandering blue, flat and sliced like the remains of a cut - paper project, and inundates it with drips, swipes, and scrawls, each section offering a new tension.

I stumbled upon the work, something like six drawings with his name scrawled lyrically across the paper: JOSH SMITH, which is also my name.

Right across from the bed is a Kelley painting of Satanic - like graffiti with the words «Thay You Love Thatan» scrawled elegantly and scarily.

Ian Cheng calls the shiny red scrawl Bigger than Your Blog, which perhaps it is — but starts it Ohm My God, like the compression of text messaging in reverse.

A darling of emerging - art collectors and tastemakers like the Horts, the Greek - born painter Despina Stokou makes spunkily exuberant canvases that look terrific even as they freely betray their evident influences: the messy, street - inflected dynamism of Basquiat, the chicken - scratched scrawls of Twombly, the porn addictions of Richard Prince.

But the work's scrawl - like effect is similar to Tracey Emin's neon works and further complicates the circle of appropriation.

Like his late contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf has been a key figure in the translation of street - art culture from the walls and train yards of New York City to the fine - art galleries of Chelsea, applying the graffiti burner's tools of trade (spray paint, acrylic, scrawled words) to canvases.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.

Stuffed onto a wall of the exhibit's spacious central gallery, the slate - gray canvas is filled with tightly wound loops, like one long continuous chalk scrawl.

Like graffiti scrawls, her fragmented texts also seem to justify the need for and the relevance of platitudes, especially if they emanate from a personal vision or from issues that hit home too closely.

Saylor lays down marks in oil stick, spray paint and pigment in a furious scrawl that ricochets from side to side like visual warfare.

But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean - Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly's skittery bathroom - graffiti scrawl.

«There was a tendency, particularly in the»70s and»80s, to pigeonhole artists — you were a woman artist, you were an artist from the South, you were a black artist,» explained Jennifer Burris, co-curator of the show along with artist Park McArthur, as we strolled past a button - down shirt covered in painted crosses, a totem - like sculpture made of pill bottles, and a postcard scrawled with the words «Here is a good solid woman,» each underlined emphatically with glitter.

In São Paulo, artists like Os Gemeos merged the local tradition of «pixação» - illicit political statements scrawled onto the city walls - with hip - hop culture to create a unique visual idiom.

Cerith Wyn Evans: Forms in Space... by Light (in Time) @ Tate Britain The latest installation in the main hall (Duveen galleries) looks like there are doodles scrawled in neon hanging in mid-air.

When the surface of a sculpture is embellished, like in «Boy with Horns (with Mountains in his Pocket),» the pattern is within one color range and specific to each shape, rather than scrawled across their surface.

The palette knifed scrawls of acrylic were giving way to pancaked rounds of bright pigment, and the individual tropes revealed themselves more slowly overtime, like the flickering retinal structure of the Tibetan Tanka.

Articulated through an almost notational painterly scrawl, the skull - like head in Made in Japan I reflects the buzzing feedback loop invoked by Cortez, vibrating with a rhythmic intensity that compels the viewer.

On the other hand, the execution can verge on the primitive, and so perhaps Pettibon's is a kind of idiosyncratic folk art like graffiti — you can almost imagine it appearing overnight scrawled across the walls of an underpass, or the previously pristine screening erected around the construction site of some shiny new high - rise development.

In his studio, the panels measuring 20 feet long were entirely black upon first glance with a brush like stroke of some ghostly horizon but upon closer inspection you can make out scrawled letters.

Writ large in scrawling loose paint and charcoal, Bernstein's wry engagement with text — Uncle Sam Balls Vietnam and Gets V.D. not V.C. (Venereal Disease not Viet Cong)-- evoked the crude gonzo aesthetics of artists such as R. Crumb and Wally Hedrick, presaging the later linguistic permutations of raconteurs like Jean - Michel Basquiat and Raymond Pettibone.

The motifs appear orderly and solid to the right, while they are scrawled and doodle - like to the left — indeed, a playful combination of fine art and popular culture.

Equal parts digital collage, political commentary, studio painting, and agitprop - style provocation, the work is like a Google image search gone wrong, with decidedly non-digital interventions (doodles, scrawled marks, erasures) registering the emotional timbre of the artist's response to the political and ideological climate of California, where originality is indistinguishable from artifice.

Clint Eastwood with his eyes scratched out, semi-naked men frolicking humorously, the artist posing like James Bond in her studio with «walkies» scrawled over her face — not to mention installation views of other artists» shows — all overlap each other.

He's been described as a «losers» loser» who undercuts his own work at every turn, and the collection of paintings on view at INVISIBLE - EXPORTS's booth are typical of his recent output: monochrome works with scrawled text that reads like the jottings of a depressed, self - aware, and deviously funny teenager (sample text: «shit or / get off the pot / me loves me / me loves me / not»).

They get their scratches and scrawls placed in a cathedral like setting validating their heroic struggle through years of deprivation.