Sentences with phrase «writhing animal forms»

Foreboding and violent, these large - scale paintings skillfully employ classical techniques to render writhing animal forms, snarling teeth and immense physical strength.

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By evoking the patterned surfaces of miniature paintings and Kashmiri textiles, with their finely wrought lines and dense networks of forms, Shaw sets up an expectation that is sharply undermined by his subject matter of writhing animals, humans, and aquatic creatures, often copulating with each other and ejaculating in bursts of exuberant color — none of which would be possible in an Islamic context.