Sentences with word «preciosity»

In these works, the occasional preciosity of Truitt's iconic pillars takes a backseat to roving curiosity.

Their demonstrable craft and frequent self - regarding preciosity is wearying.

At the Kartell flagstore in Milan the poetic and rarefied mood of the Japanese designer, Tokujin Yoshioka, will breathe life into an ethereal ambience where a series of unique pieces will be on show, all of them sharing the lightness of their complete transparency with the stylistic preciosity of solid, maxi forms with thicknesses never before seen in design pieces made of polycarbonate.

@GodFreeNow if the artifact was use as a tool of worship, but it was only use after the destruction, and the artifact was change from it preciosity version.

Drawing equally from conceptual performance history and nonsense literature, as well as tenets of British empiricism and the rhetoric of political campaigns, Bob and Roberta Smith's allergy to pretension and preciosity can lend an offending bluntness or seeming nihilistic absurdity to their actions.

The art critic Stuart Preston, reviewing the Guggenheim exhibition in The New York Times, wrote: «The word subtlety is crude when applied to the astonishing textural and coloristic variations that Tàpies, whose taste is unerring to the point of preciosity, manages to confect.»