Sentence examples for Decorative from inspiring English sources
adjective
That serves to decorate
He has published the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Art since 1986 and is an active member of the international boards of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Everywhere you walk there are sad, orphaned relics – lone mailboxes, a decorative urn, a pizza oven, a sign on a knee-high gate in the middle of an empty patch of scrub that says, THIS PROPERTY NO SMOKING.
Traditionally, the ochre was used in everything from decorative arts to wedding ceremonies and even as a spice for fish and torshi (pickled vegetables).
Reduced to a decorative mask, to distract from the great bulk looming behind, the facade is left orphaned, rejected by both building and street as a redundant rind of history.
Schiele's work was already expressionistic and daring, taking Klimt's safely decorative eroticism a bold leap further with his figurative distortions, mannered elongations and sexual frankness.
On the one hand, he specified timber "from the saw" and plaster "from the float", while on the other he was constantly on site, breathing down his workers' necks, insisting that the ends of steel beams be carefully stripped and twisted into impossibly elaborate decorative curls.
More typical of the firm's output are large modern decorative installations like those illuminating the Four Seasons Hotels in Miami and San Francisco.In this section At the gates of hell Amazon's new toy Within spitting distance?
Luke Syson, the curator in charge of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, notes that though goldsmiths of the 15th century realised their own designs, by the next century they were fabricating the designs made by other artists.
The news pushed the price past $1,090 an ounce for the first time.The IMF's gold holdings are less decorative than India's, but also impressive: the third-biggest official stash in the world.
Some visitors will want to compare the medieval objects in the Design Museum, among them banners, small caskets and decorative earthenware, to the magnificent medieval paintings and sculptures in the nearby National Museum of Catalan Art.
The sequence was enough to land her an MGM contract, and she was offered a few decorative bit parts, culminating in The Bad and the Beautiful.
