Sentences with phrase «soft gradations»

Lovely, small - scale landscapes and still lifes, largely in soft gradations of black and white dominated.

Whereas Hiroshi Sugimoto allows the horizon to divide his picture plane into soft gradations of gray in North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton Island, 1996, Ellsworth Kelly crudely extrapolates the result of this effect in his inked squares, Light Reflection on Water, 1950.

Vermeesch's soft gradations of oil paint mimic the polished, reflective surface of a bare metal sheet, the painted surface appearing to be at once support and subject, utterly self - contained.

In both works, the soft gradation of pale, nocturnal blues and greens accentuates their dream - like quality.

Not exact matches

Pick one color family «You want an all - over, soft, velvety finish with a gradation of color, not contrasting shades,» Lucero explains.

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Viewers must cautiously walk the narrow and dark path between the wall and canvas, following the painting's soft fields of muted beige gradations, outlined and entangled by the white, red and black lines traced with her signature oil sticks.

The destruction brought to a work like Speechless (2013)-- the scraped and gouged surfaces punctured by the blanked - out faces of unidentifiable persons — is disturbed more by the buffed gradations and soft, whimsical applications of paint than the frustrated violence brought to bear on the pictures.