Sentence examples for architectural backgrounds from inspiring English sources

Like Mr. Zorn's piece, "Tetras" is certainly a wild ride, one whose structure reflects Xenakis's mathematical and architectural backgrounds.

Thus, in general, sculpture in the round is concerned with single figures and limited groups, while reliefs deal with more complex "pictorial" subjects involving crowds, landscape, architectural backgrounds, and so on.

But engravings such as the Adoration of the Magi (c. 1512), cluttered with awkward figures and architectural backgrounds, indicate a decline in conceptual power that lasted until about 1519, when he engraved the Dance of the Magdalene.

Architectural backgrounds in sculpture range from the simplified baldacchinos (ornamental structures resembling canopies used especially over altars) of early medieval reliefs to the 17th- and 18th-century virtuoso perspective townscapes of Grinling Gibbons.

A number of Greek artists who arrived from Constantinople at the end of the 14th century brought a more varied subject matter to the Novgorod school and introduced the use of more complex architectural backgrounds.

Actually "gothic" suggests something cruder and clunkier than these eerie tales (translucent paper screens rather than louring masonry form the architectural backgrounds to the spookiest scenes in Mizoguchi's adaptation).

Coming from an architectural background, architecture always plays an important role in the films of Factory Fifteen and for Jonah Tavares says, "The architecture is folded into the narrative as well as the production design.

And does architectural background contribute to such awareness, by somehow "educating" our ears?

Using his architectural background, he works on design concepts for the group and also consults with hotels.

The architectural background to this painting, he claimed, was from Degas' painting of a trapeze artist in the National Gallery – a reference point for most of the artists here.

The faces and drapery are more idealized and more monumental than in his early works, and the figures are emphasized at the expense of the architectural background.