Sentences with phrase «using sackcloth»

But just as important was the physicality and materiality of the paintings, resulting from his preference for using sackcloth and raw jute with a very open weave for his supports and raw pigment, soil and ash as his medium.

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In the New Testament, Jesus refers to the use of sackcloth and ashes as signs of repentance: «Woe to you, Chorazin!

Using a rough - textured sackcloth, he created a friezelike composition whose flat but monumental forms and exotic color create visual equivalents of the peace and harmony he had admired among the Polynesian natives.