Sentences with word «pentimento»

These new works expand upon reoccurring motifs such as the anonymous woman surrounded by allusive fragmented images, rendered in Sarmento's delicate pentimento of pencil and paint.

The trick is to be able to see the holy both in and through the mask, even as the archaeologist traces back the various layers of writing on an ancient palimpsest or as the artist explores an old canvas to discern the effect known as pentimento.

That is called pentimento because the painter «repented,» changed his mind.

For sure pentimento (alteration), but no destruction per se.

The painting was composed using multiple references to create a subtle pentimento effect; combining a 1968 Playboy magazine spread with her own snapshot of a woman in white hot pants and orange fishnets taken at a street party.

Bertolucci's story contrasts states of alienation, the fresh alienation of the young and the pentimento of those who have lived with it into the far turn.

Restless shifts in tempo, which leave plenty of room for pale washes of colour and unpainted canvas, echo too the pentimento erasures and re-workings common throughout Medieval and Renaissance oil painting.

His colored shapes create an epidermis, a pentimento over the tree's own life cycle.

Using processes and effects such as transferring, scanning, photographing photographs and pentimento, Al - Samerai's images are sensual, layered and deliberately unpolished.

Sometimes she paints over vast tracts of the canvas; other times there's a pentimento or perhaps an image intended to be visible beneath the surface.

Here Brice's penchant for art historical — and local — pentimento is at its peak.