Sentences with phrase «object of beauty»

Our handmade and leather jewelry boxes are objects of beauty in their own right, capturing loose items in one pretty place.

We also visit the other side of the coin, an artist who make bikes as objects of beauty.

The items on display are practical necessities, yet they have been transformed into objects of beauty thanks to the arrangement.

Though they can serve specific functions, they often serve as a sort of picture frame, a space to host a rotation of objects of beauty for contemplation.

A few objects of beauty that have caught my eye lately....

However, the resin doors are objects of beauty in and of themselves.

If to these more or less permanent features in the setting are added vestments and other objects of beauty or meaningful symbolism, a powerful sensuous appeal is made to the eye.

Propelled by the notion of transformation, The Curious Department's passion is to take the under appreciated aesthetics found in nature, and transform them into unexpected mesmerising objects of beauty.

Marisa Berenson as Natalia Landauer in Cabaret is Tia William's latest throwback object of beauty obsession, and it's not hard to see why.

When Lacey began these computations, her toe crossed ground from which it is difficult to return: she started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.

Commenting on consumerism, Sandra Doore shapes synthetic leather into fragmented objects of beauty and creates plastic «texted» tapestries, both functioning as sites of investigation and critique.

Re-purposed by Parker, the damaged liners and edges are revealed as precious objects of beauty in their own right.

«History has portrayed women in a variety of ways — often objects of beauty to be admired — but when women paint other women there is a unique voice that is shared.»

Meticulously beaded clothing attests to the care taken by Plains women to create objects of beauty for their families.

One can not argue, however, with the indisputable flourishing of creativity, the significant influence, the continuing legacy, and the unique objects of beauty that emerged during that time.

The fairytale portrays the rose as a mystical object of beauty in his dark world.

With characteristic wit, Shonibare presents his audience with two reproductions of anti-masturbation devices — one for women and one for men — that are fascinating objects of beauty and horror.

His enormous, pillared studio in downtown Manhattan is decorated by various objects of beauty, including a collection of giant canvases upon which rainbows have been exploded and teased into myriad stately statements, any one of which could take the skin off your eyeballs.

These days, we largely see Windows as an affordable alternative to Apple's pricey objects of beauty.

Take a closer look at the sculpture's details while Barbara makes her final installation adjustments, and hear her own philosophy on the role of artworks as objects of beauty.

Following a suggestion by Liberal Democrat assembly member Caroline Pidgeon that the process may have been «prejudged», Boris replied that: «I find it very depressing that you persist in this Taliban - like hatred of objects of beauty.»

Leaving us quite literally «Breathless» at the variety of works extrapolating on the once living creatures turned into objects of beauty.

It is an object of beauty, order and delight.

This object of beauty and seperation simply reflects who as are.

I find I like them to have a balance of plainness, such that the jewelry can be quickly discerned and picked out, and luxury, such that they are in themselves objects of beauty, but they may be any material, ** and a range of sizes can serve.

This Dogeared pearl necklace on a delicate chain also includes a lovely gold card for your best friend with the the printed saying; «with time and patience, and a little help from mother nature, a pearl grows into an object of beauty and simplicity.

Green Bottle Press is a small independent press, dedicated to the idea that poetry books should not only engage the reader with fresh language, form and subject matter, but also be objects of beauty.

How about a compromise: the Google Tv should come with two remotes, an object of beauty with three buttons (or none if you prefer), and a big ugly one with a qwerty and a touchpad?

A piece by Rachel Arons for The New Yorker discussed the differences in so - called book fetishists, people who treasure printed books as an object of beauty, and not just for their literary value.

Solomon, a former art critic, asked Martin extensively about the art world (the backdrop for An Object of Beauty)-- but apparently the conversation was not satisfactory for some members of the audience who wanted to hear more about Martin's career (i.e. showbiz).

The industry reflex seems to be to credit The Goldfinch, but it certainly wasn't the first novel about art to make a splash — think Steve Martin's Object of Beauty, Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves, Susan Vreeland's The Forest Lover and, of course, Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, to name just a few.

b) I had just finished An Object of Beauty and was on a novels - about - art kick and c) there's a big honkin» blurb from Emma Donoghue, one of my favorite authors, on the cover.The story is about the...

b) I had just finished An Object of Beauty and was on a novels - about - art kick and c) there's a big honkin» blurb from Emma Donoghue, one of my favorite authors, on the cover.

Ranging from old to new, fiction and non, she made some interesting picks, including BookPage favorites like An Object of Beauty, A Reliable Wife, Cleopatra and Keith Richards» Life.

It is not only a technological marvel in its field, but is an object of beauty to look at and hold.

Surrounded by an equally marvelous, lush tropical garden, Sundown Villa is an object of beauty.

However, he does not paint from reality, but rather from memory, transforming a generic object into an object of beauty through close attention...

Not just a serious collector of painters from Edward Hopper to Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman, but the actor doubles as a satirist of the art world: his novel An Object of Beauty skewered dealers who act like Wall Street wheeler - dealers.

Her exhibition explores hair as an indicator of race, social status, a symbol of age and authority, a statement of contemporary style, an object of beauty, and adornment.

Yet the book is an object of beauty in itself.

«Handmade paper has a unique texture and an individual quality that makes it not only a surface to write, paint or print on, but an object of beauty in its own right.»

The erotic works created from a male perspective on the female figure either as an object of beauty or with lust and desire are unusually set against Emin's figures from the female perspective reflecting her internal thoughts and emotions.

Certainly no one, not Peter Brant or Raymond Learsy, Melva Bucksbaum, Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin, or Ben Stiller (this year's Val Kilmer), deemed it appropriate to protest any issue at Aby Rosen's W South Beach Hotel, where Steve Martin read a Miami Basel dinner scene from An Object of Beauty, his deep - inside new novel about a ruthless young skirt from Sotheby's on the make for art - boom success.

His contribution to the history of art was the portrayal of landscape not simply as an object of beauty but as a romantic (romantische Stimmungslandschaft) and spiritual, if not mystical, experience.

Strüwe's love for form informs his choice, each subject studied as an object of beauty unto itself.

«I transform books into art by sculpting them, dyeing them and then through the medium of photography presenting them anew as objects of beauty.

A drive to purchase one's way into a certain social caste, a longing to share (if momentarily) in the risks of bohemian life or art's intellectual adventure, a belief in art as a kind of religion (its icons compelling sacrifice), a need to cushion one's surroundings with objects of beauty or significance — who can say what complex motives go into the acquisition of works of art?

Proving conclusively that a discussion of art with Steve Martin can be funny and entertaining, Stephen Colbert devoted a portion of his «Colbert Report» on Wednesday night to an erudite exercise with Mr. Martin, the art collector, «Object of Beauty» author and occasional adversary of the 92nd Street Y.