Sentences with phrase «like water lilies»

In other galleries, slabs of marble are exquisitely overpainted with patterns that float like water lilies on the surface; carpets, lampshades and chairs with a hint of art deco refer back to the tearoom that preceded the gallery long ago.

Wilson's graphic fluency and absurdist sense of humor (one piece features typewriter keys floating like water lilies, another pairs two gramophone horns blasting particles at each other) recall the 1970s paintings of Philip Guston, whose figural motifs flowed with a prolificacy and naturalness verging on the speed of thought.

When I first came up with the idea to make a crepe paper succulent tutorial, I knew I had to mimic their thick leaves otherwise they would look like water lilies.

Not exact matches

It's like subliminal interlineations beckoning one to dip one's toes into the water, even though we know the piranha are under the lily pads.

In the afternoon, light shifts to blue gold, shadows of leaves wave over the floors like lilies in water.

If grown on dry ground, it produces an elephant - ear leaf; if grown in a pond, it puts up leaves like lily pads; and if grown in deeper water, it grows up with slender leaves like eelgrass.

Ancient people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily, while imports like cannabis and opium made from poppies spread through early international trade networks.

By then, drugs like cannabis had arrived in Mesopotamia, while people from Turkey to Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily.

As you might have guessed, it has a water - like vibe — the formula «bursts» when it comes in contact with your skin, allowing ingredients like Japanese wild rose to tighten your pores and Japanese leopard lily to control your oil production, giving you the perfect balance.

I think I like the Tea Rose tablecloth the best, but also really love the one you feature and the Water Lilies (in blue).

No, I'm not referring to the Golden State's rich palette of ethnic and other minority (and majority) groups, nor to its desire that they'll live, work, and go to school in harmony, like Monet's Water Lilies or Matisse's Fauve masterpieces.

In late fall, remove non-hardy aquatic plants like Water Hyacinths or tropical lilies and store them in warm, frost - free conditions indoors until next year.

You will meet the enchanted grounds that brings you like walking in an enchanted wonderland with stonework, bridges, orchids water lilies and goldfish till enter to the magnificently spacious and clean room.

Some brush techniques even conjure much - needed items, like lily pads to make your way across the water, or fireworks to break weak walls.

From Matisse she turned her attention to Mondrian, whose abstractions taught her «to start with the thing itself», then to Monet's expansive water lilies, then to the Futurists («There's lots I don't like about Futurism... but it was certainly moving towards abstract painting»).

The lotus flowers and lilies, much like the women within the work exude a sense of strength and rebirth, emerging from the murky, uncertain waters.

I was drawn to artists like Monet (his water lilies) and the American Luminists, particularly Martin Heade and Fritz Hugh Lane.

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.

Monet's mural - sized Water Lilies and the grand canvases of the Abstract Expressionists - designed to overwhelm in a conventionally scaled, mid-century exhibition space - looked like postage stamps at the bottom of the multistoried atrium.

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

Appropriately situated in the heart of the city's Art District, the Dallas Museum of Art is worth a visit as much for its extensive collection (including must - see contemporary art by the likes of Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, and Robert Mapplethorpe, along with a few beauties from Monet's Water Lilies series), as it is for the striking Edward Larrabee Barnes box - like building that houses it.

Vase 1903 wheel - thrown incised earthenware with underglaze and high - gloss glaze Sabina Elliot Wells born 1876 died Charleson, S.C. 1943 with Joseph Meyer, potter active ca. 1896 - 1925 for the Newcomb Pottery, New Orleans Museum purchase made possible by The Endowment Fund in Honor of D. A. Turner 98.35 This vase from Newcomb Pottery features water lily or lotus - like buds with vertical stems rooted in a stylized water pattern at the foot of the pot.

The fountains are solar powered water pumps that float on the top of the water like lily pads.

Some brush techniques even conjure much - needed items, like lily pads to make your way across the water, or fireworks to break weak walls.