Sentences with phrase «often ravishing»

«Mr. Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany, at 69,» writes Roberta Smith.

Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany.

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Moreover, this growth has often entailed vast industrialization and capitalist accumulation which have trapped millions of human beings in grinding cycles of poverty and exploitable cheap labor, as well as ravishing and poisoning environment after environment.

Ullmann's cold - blooded direction doesn't stop the ravishing, redheaded beauty from devouring one poetic monologue after another, while telegraphing Julie's often wildly contradictory feelings through gesture and movement.

Indeed, the two words that appear most often in the literature on the artist (regularly in anxious proximity) are ravishing and vapid.

Christine Dovey, a designer based in Oakville, Ont., who has remotely kitted out homes (via email) from America to Norway, stepped in to apply her signature style: ravishing rooms with traditional architectural details in a modern palette of black and white with bursts of pink; spaces in which provocative contemporary artwork often sits alongside antique furnishings.