Sentences with phrase «painting remains hidden»

Cut from its frame in Agnew's Bond Street gallery, the painting remained hidden in a false - bottomed trunk in the United States for 25 years.

Not exact matches

There are details of the structure of the living cell, essential features in the composition of metals, cotton, silk, rubber, paint, bone, nerve, and a thousand other things which are hidden even from the microscope, and must always remain so hidden because the failure does not lie with the skill of the optician but with the incapacity of light itself.

All around us, they say, atmospheric currents tumble in cyclonic or anticyclonic patterns that remain hidden until a dust devil paints them brown.

X-ray radiography was the first non-invasive tool used to uncover hidden information in «La Miséreuse accroupie»; it revealed a horizontal landscape by a different Barcelona painter, whose identity remains unknown, under the visible surface of Picasso's painting.

Sir Marc Aurel Stein made four journeys along this path to find paintings, manuscripts and printed items that had remained hidden in a cave near Dunhuang, China.

However, the focus remains on discovery; players must do much more than slaughter legions of zombies, such as enabling an escape - tube network, powering up generators, unlocking a weapon power - up station, finding clues hidden in paintings, and more.

Crystal Bridges founding curator Chris Crosman's description of the painting is not coy about its homoerotic allure: the painting, he writes, «reveals Hartley's full - blown embrace of homosexual desires that up to this point had remained hidden in stylized imagery, encoded in mystical symbols, or subsumed in representations of nature's heaving rhythms.»

Neither event was a great success; Appel's painting of smiling yet sinister children spoiled so many municipal appetites that it was almost immediately covered up, and it remained hidden for the next 10 years.

Realist painters like Gustave Courbet and Jean - Francois Millet painted everyday working - class French citizens, presenting a sympathetic view of a segment of society most would prefer to remain hidden.

She is forthcoming with her body while managing to remain hidden — the application of a paint - like material directly to her body serves to highlight representational art's tendency to simultaneously display and obscure a woman's person.

He may use a brush or a palette knife, and he will eventually sand or scrape through the many layers to «release images» that would have otherwise remained hidden in the paint.

The fanned edge scenes remain hidden until the book is opened and the pages are gently displaced to align the tiny segments of the painting hidden on the very edge of each page.

We have a brick fireplace in the basement that we have been scratching our heads about because the top half was painted blue by one of the previous owners (hidden by panelling until last Winter) and the remaining original brick is crumbling so much of it is not salvagable.