Sentence examples for ambitious paintings from inspiring English sources

Often his most ambitious paintings feel Hollywood-fake, overproduced, overwritten.

The censorship of one of his most ambitious paintings was a further humiliation for Rembrandt.

At first glance, Mr. Ritchie's ambitious paintings, drawings and installations seem to illustrate an impenetrable personal cosmology.

Together these works support a theory, voiced by the critic David Sylvester, that Picasso often turned to black and white in his busier, more ambitious paintings.

Another of his drawings, "Pull," uses a variety of mediums, including shellac and gesso, which are usually associated with making ambitious paintings.

Mr. Brown writes, "We know now that Velázquez, contrary to his usual practice, made a preliminary study of a person of no special distinction to appear in one of his most ambitious paintings".

The ambitious painting might have been Renoir's response to author and critic Émile Zola's challenge to impressionists in 1880 that, instead of "sketches that are hardly dry," they "create complex paintings of modern life" after "long and thoughtful preparation" (2 ).

He wanted to create ambitious "history paintings" that told big stories of great moral significance.

With a group of ambitious new paintings freshly behind her, Ms. Fishman appeared both enormously satisfied and a bit on edge.

In size they are the most ambitious sea paintings Ms Hambling has ever done and the result is a forensic look at the ocean's subversive nature.

IN the 1970's, Joan Semmel achieved some prominence for her big, ambitious figurative paintings, which were seen as part of a new wave of feminist art.