The phrase "arresting works" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe artworks, literature, or any creative pieces that capture attention or provoke interest.
Example: "The gallery featured a collection of arresting works that left the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "captivating pieces" or "striking creations".
"He creates arresting works that often disrupt the norm".
The one-hour program on Governors Island included three other arresting works by living composers: moody, Minimalist-influenced music that lured the picnicking audience into attentive silence.
Seemingly unusable and somewhat unloved, one of New York's most arresting works of 1960's Brutalist architecture -- a forceful, concrete-clad evocation of Le Corbusier -- is about to be demolished.
And his pictures (among them arresting works by van Eyck and Giovanni di Paolo) are dominated by the majestic Rogier van der Weyden portrayal of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist.
The selections range from the distinctly disappointing title piece by the Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnyte to arresting works by Pärt, Sibelius, Schubert, Michael Nyman, Lera Auerbach, and Shostakovich, but all are performed commandingly by Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, his vibrant young chamber orchestra.
For all its modest dimensions, it is one of the show's most arresting works.
In other words, it is that rarity, a truly arresting work of fiction.
Insistent themes resurfaced throughout the tranquil, arresting work, with delicate, ephemeral motifs repeated with increasing intensity, until a fiery outburst shattered the serenity.
"You respond to something because it is an arresting work of art that is in a museum because it has value that transcends money".
The most visually arresting work, and the most uplifting -- perhaps that's why its hung opposite the gallery entrance -- is Jane Hammond's work called "The Wonderfulness of Downtown".
The English composer Thomas Ad?s audacious operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's fantastical play "The Tempest" is a musically spiky and theatrically arresting work.
