Sentence examples for art depictions from inspiring English sources

For a long time, in Christian art, depictions of Hell offered both of these elemental satisfactions.

The trip was fraught with Miltonian paradox: at a time when his Puritan sympathies were growing, he steeped himself in Catholic art, depictions of the human form, and the languorous Mediterranean climate.

Conservatives have railed at offensive art depictions in the past, with Rudy Giuliani famously cutting off funds for the Brooklyn Museum of Art after it displayed a painting of the Virgin Mary covered in Elephant dung.

The first art depiction of the Chinese 'fire lance' (a combination of a temporary-fire flamethrower and gun) was from a Buddhist mural painting of Dunhuang, dated circa 950.

And Mr. Tanavoli, not long back from study in Italy, was comparably experimental in sculpture, creating found-art depictions of heroic figures from Persian epics and casting single calligraphic letters in bronze.

His innovations, his eye for storytelling and for visual artistry, for symbolism and for realism, his understanding of the nature of film history and the progression of visual storytelling (particularly with regard to Asian cinema and the presentation of, for example, samurai tales and martial arts depictions), is a combination of talents far head of his time and nearly unparalleled.

Precisely because she aspired to be more than a journalist, Meiselas was dragged into debates about art's depictions of war".

The title of the exhibit, "Au Naturel," is a nod to art historical depictions of female nudes.

Art deco depictions of both the god Ullr (1928) and Skaði (1929) appear on covers of the Swedish ski annual På Skidor, both skiing and wielding bows.

Islam frowns upon representing holy figures in art and depictions of the Prophet Mohammad in European and North American media have repeatedly sparked deadly protests in Islamic countries over the last decade, fanning cultural tensions with the West.

Eventually the performance evolved into an exploration of the complexities surrounding the paradox of the mother/child relationship, investigating both its vernacular and art historical depictions, while mimicking and ignoring the traditional visual signifiers of motherhood".