My own fascination with black in painting comes not from abstract expressionism, but from an earlier period — the infinite,
stark black backgrounds in Velázquez's The Water Seller of Seville (1618 - 22), the black clouds that envelop Rembrandt's The Abduction of Proserpine (1631), the almost surreal flatness of Zurburan's Christ on the Cross (1627).
Eva Rothschild, who often uses a rainbow spectrum of colours in her work, has designed a ring made up of the Tube line colours with
a stark black background
It's a simple photo that reflects Abosch's style:
a stark black background and a straight - on shot in high resolution.
But the 5T's screen really earned its stripes as I watched the hilarious teaser trailer for Deadpool 2, which features the anti-hero doing his best Bob Ross impersonation in front of
a stark black background.
Not exact matches
A gritty Brooklyn warehouse space edged by a
stark black curtain was a fitting
background for hearing one of the tech world's best - known CEOs admit he'd had moments of feeling over his head.
The video is a low - budget affair, featuring white or red lettering against a
stark black - and - white
background and a faintly ominous soundtrack.
Its
stark black tree pattern and the message «Merry F*ckin Christmas» on a red
background show that you are not here for precious traditions or holiday songs.
Illustrated in stunning
black - and - white pencil art (with the aforementioned red - and - white touches), the drawings pop from
stark - white
backgrounds.
Many of Snow's models are presented against a
stark unending
black background which draws attention to every curve of the body, drawing pose and content to the forefront of each image.
, I am making paintings of antique cameras and film equipment set against
stark black and white
backgrounds.
At the Lia Rumma booth, I was immediately struck by a
stark multimedia piece — a
black silhouette of a cloven creature on a white
background that looks at once prehistoric and fantastic, with the number 2584 overlaid on the image in neon.
In an untitled work on paper from 1989, Bourgeois drew three fat maggots, their pale bodies
stark against a
black background.
The largeness of Sultan's compositions, huge pieces of fruit, flowers, dominoes and other objects, set against the
stark, unsettling tar -
black, eight - foot square
background, dominate the viewer.
If you add a dark enough wallpaper to your home screen, Android's
stark white paint job in the quick settings, app drawer, folder
backgrounds, and Google Feed page is replaced with a sleek, dark /
black look.
But first, it's worth noting that Wear OS now switches to a default Dark UI system theme, a
stark contrast to Android Wear 1.0, which sported mostly white
backgrounds and
black text.