Sentence examples for assertive paintings from inspiring English sources

Donald Baechler's assertive paintings, which make the commonplace seem special, have been receiving international attention since the early 80's.

Large, assertive paintings of monumental female heads cast an anonymous Maya peasant as the Machine Age equivalent of an architectural caryatid on an ancient Peloponnesian temple.

The main gallery is occupied by an exhibition of sculptures by Joe Fyfe, who many know for his materially assertive abstract paintings and for his plain-spoken art criticism.

The selection here reflects a lifelong dedication to making his paintings highly assertive in the tactile, visual and sometimes even verbal sense (when they incorporated letters and words).

A flight of stairs leads down to a gallery (formerly an outdoor swimming pool) containing large and assertive works — sculptures and paintings — by Koons, Prince, Cattelan, and other contemporary-art stars, as well as equally striking pieces by artists who are less well known (Urs Fischer, Paul Chan).

Her black paintings are as assertive as a wall but have a deep-sea kind of blackness, ghostly and soft.

Perhaps the most concise criticism of this show comes from Ms. Pibal's own work: two paintings with more assertive colors and emphatic arrangements of lines currently on view in a group show at Feature on the Lower East Side.

But the new paintings are bigger, bolder and more assertive than anything she has done before.

Although the individual paintings are small, the group has an assertive presence.

The paintings, assemblages and sculpture filling this modest space are assertive and seem loaded with social and psychological meanings.

Vuillard's paintings are often interiors in which the figure blends into the wallpaper, but here, with his study of dressmakers, the half-length figures are especially assertive.