Sentences with phrase «rather than wool»

Plus, the coat material is cotton rather than wool, which is perfect for California winters and my sensitive skin!

Finally, I would avoid any mattresses that have un-waterproofed organic cotton rather than wool / latex as the surface material.

Not exact matches

You see, your great grandmother, rather than put plastic pants on your grandparents, would have pinned a flat or two on the baby, and covered it with a knitted wool cover.

Rather than buying it new, I purchase old, 100 % wool sweaters or jackets from thrift shops.

Although wool is a favorite you will probably shun pure linen in favor of a linen mix rather than cope with the creasing!

There's something mature and luxurious about this wrap coat, because you'd rather be swathed in brushed wool and tied at the waist than buttoned up in a peacoat.

Honestly, I'm still buying winter wool hats rather than pretty dresses!!

Love the J Brands that are out now but I'd rather have twill or wool than denim, I think it'll be more with the things I already have.

If you're likely to be outside for a while, I recommend a wool base layer rather than a cotton one (this is a theme in this post — just wait).

But rather than highlight her legal victories and battle against injustice, it would be an injustice to you my darlings if I didn't prepare a defense for a tailored wool coat this winter (love this one from All Saints).

I wanted wool rather than poly blend but didn't want to spend a ton so I've been hawking eBay for a fab vintage find and I finally found a black & white vintage Pendleton.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

His clothing seemed to subsume rather than enhance his form, as if his legs were no match for worsted wool, his chest unequal to the task of imported linen.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

His closest affinities were with the elegant Johnsian painterliness of Lethbridge — and, by association, that of Richmond Burton and Terry Winters — rather than the grittiness of Ligon and Wool.

Even if you are not inclined to support sceptical views I think as a scientist that it is always preferable to read for oneself what is being said and to form your own views rather than just confirming your prejudices by listening dyed in the wool critics.

A lot there should be taken with a grain of salt, but it's very interesting to see a died - in - the - wool conservative arguing (correctly) that the extreme cases rather than the mean should be given weight in making policy.

The pieces all have designs cut into the felt, which sounds a bit like someone took a pair of scissors to a wool rug, but upon inspection the lines are all sharp and clean, making the felt pieces look modern rather than messy.