Sentences with phrase «than a painting of»

Contemporary art doesn't come more soulless than the paintings of the Beijing - based artist Li Songsong, who is having his American debut at Pace Gallery.

That's so beautiful; his work is like a life poem, it's almost more about life than a painting of somebody's life.

Being scrupulously deliberate about his compositions, Cavallon has grown even more anxious with regard to his color — by now little more than a painting of whites,

More than any paintings of recent memory, Saulnier's merge painted illusion and painterly gesture into a compelling vision that embraces 19th - century articulation without definitively describing anything.

I think my most recent paintings of the interior spaces are more like his work than the paintings of houses that have been framed in in wood.

Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»

Not exact matches

NYT, in interviews with more than 50 current and former employees, paints a picture of the culture at the sports apparel giant.

FOR many wine drinkers, the word chianti conjures up images of red and white checked tablecloths, men (and often women) with an abundance of chest hair, and those squat, cane - wrapped bottles of brick - red wine more suited to stripping paint than accompanyi

Are they painting a slightly rosier than reality picture of their workloads and lifestyle for public consumption?

And in Rosslyn, South Africa, BMW uses more than 70 solar collectors on its roof to supply most of the hot water it needs in its paint shop.

Fruits on the packages look like they're painted rather than photographed, and containers have a matte finish instead of a glossy look.

The only problem is that Trump's, and later Spicer's, comments paint the picture of an unfocused plan that could do more harm than good if implemented.

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

Other data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year, with inflationary pressures easing — possibly pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.

Which is lucky for the realtors, since their case was thinner than a pre-sale coat of paint.

The results paint a familiar if less than hugely flattering portrait of human nature.

Painting the Keystone as something that would simply enable Canadian exports with no obvious economic benefit for Americans has a better chance of resonating with blue - collar Democrats than anything to do with green - house gas emissions.

He's amassed a fortune of more than $ 6 billion, the largest part of which is a nonpareil collection of postwar American paintings.

According to a 2015 study that examined thousands of Facebook users, what you do on the social network — specifically what you choose to «like» — might paint a better picture of you than even your friends can.

The flowering branches of Mulan magnolia that grace the cover of Joan Lok's new book on Chinese brush painting appear more brightly colored than in her original work, probably to catch the eye of someone browsing in a bookstore, guesses the author.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

Just looking at price to earnings ratios in a period of rising cash software spend will paint an overly rosy picture for as long as a company's cash spend is higher than the amortisation.

Investor lending rose in March for the first time in more than a year, official figures earlier this month showed and asking price figures from consultancy SQM Research paint the picture of a market that is still strong.

This data focused way of finding users is far more effective than traditional media advertising, where potential audience members are painted with the broadest of strokes.

With the economy strengthening, the Minister was able to paint a picture of economic growth and lower than expected deficits while also boosting the Canada Child Benefit and the Working Income Tax Benefit.

There are more than a dozen works on view in Trump's apartment, including a series of prints by conceptual artist John Baldessari, a massive work by art - market juggernaut Christopher Wool, a small piece by the up - and - coming artist Will Boone, prints by photographer Mariah Robertson, and a small, colorful abstract painting by the young art - world star Alex Da Corte.

Very simply, market painting is when a group of traders get together to make it look like there is more activity in the market than there actually is.

I would agree, however, with the underlying religious point, that too much God is painted as a deity of petty rules rather than the awesome Creator.

Emma Watson has already made an impeccable transition from child star to Serious Actress, and here's one more thing to add to the list of things she's probably better than you at: painting.

I think this is so because (painting with a broad brush here) they are more emotional than men and have greater instincts to take care of people.

poorly written response, look at the context of the sentences above: proper removal of lead - based paints is more important than citizens being murdered on the streets?

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

By the way, the Bible is no more evidence for the existence of God than Juius Leblanc Stewart's painting «Nude in the Forest» is evidence that women actually stand around nude in the forest.

A lot of believers do that, I suspect because it's easier to paint atheists with the same brush than it is to realize that so many people from so many walks of life have found reason to reject the faith you cling to with such desperation.

This paints quite a different picture of Jesus than the one used on most children's» Bibles!

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

She paints a vivid of picture of women both more privileged and less happy than at any time in history and of men absolved of all responsibility by the sexual revolution but also stunted, trapped in a perpetual adolescence.

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

They are no more historical than the set and scenery of a play are part of the narrative of the drama, or than the order in which an artist fills in the pigment and detail of a painting is part of the significance of the painting.

In the classic Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury paints a picture of a future world where firefighters start fires, rather than put them out — fires created with burning books because intellectual pursuits...

Nature has just as much beauty, order, love, and wonder as it does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds of dark and disturbing passages which seems to paint a different picture of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.

As in medieval painting Christ is sometimes larger than other figures because of his importance, but in general, size relates to the spatial organization of a design.

Painting all people of a group with a broad brush is worse than lack of forgiveness, it aims to convict people with no evidence much like racism.

The one who enters the best caption (you can enter more than one), chosen by myself and a couple of my comically - inclined friends, will win my original watercolor painting (2.5 ″ x3.5 ″), called Northern Lights Town:

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

Apparently, reading ancient hieroglyphs and cave paintings in the here and now tell us more about the truth of the alienated human being than any day to day feeling of ennui while ordering a latte at Starbucks.

Neither a mental image, nor a verbal image are any more successful in portraying the God of Israel than a graven image or painted picture.

«Nowhere was the religious fervor of the Revolution more apparent than in the secular propagandistic painting of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros.

Although the theologian can not be programmed for success, any more than an artist can paint by number, there are several guidelines concerning the theologian's setting and posture that can be offered by way of conclusion.