Sentence examples for bright art from inspiring English sources

I stand in his bright art gallery, shaking the ice off my coat, as Guy confesses he got into 44 Scotland Street by sending an email proposing to McCall Smith that he settle the question of whether a painting (crucial to the plot) was by his grandfather, Samuel Peploe.

Ever against the grain, the now 60-year-old Byrne explores a whole symphony of argument in this extraordinary book with the precise, technical enthusiasm you'd expect from the painfully bright art school-educated son – born in Scotland, raised in the States – of an electrical engineer, occasionally mopping his fevered brow in the crestfallen manner of a 19th-century poet.

Richard Lazarus, the senior vice president for business development of Eyestorm, said that its customers were "buying for aesthetics, not collecting, " and that any of Eyestorm's bright art "could absolutely be a décor item -- a real talking point for a living room".

Even though it is a relatively new establishment, the interior already looks somewhat worn but welcoming, with the walls covered in bright, art nouveau tiles from ceiling to floor.

Wowed by its rough-hewn (yet uber-luxe) hacienda style, it charmed even the most jaded jet-setters with its artsy design ethos – think: antique tiles, bright art and local textiles – and it set a marker in the sand for a new level of luxury.

As another example of the French-Southern California style connection, Paris-based luxury brand Louis Vuitton's revamped and expanded space at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa combines a sense of California cool (courtesy of the store's bright art and airiness) with joie de vivre.

Dining The hotel provides room service, but the action is in the bright, art-filled dining room.

At first glance, it looks like a narrow, crowded old-school celery-beet-and-ginger mashery, but there are three surprises: an all-vegetarian steam table, where a plate of any three dishes go for $6; a hidden space in the back that turns out to be a bright, art-filled dining area; and a menu where juices are named after the ailments they're meant to remedy.

During recent talks I had with the painter David Salle, who was one of the brightest art stars of the eighties, he would tell me — sometimes in actual words, sometimes by implication — that the subject of his declining reputation in the art world was of no real interest to him.

Arthur C. Danto, writing in The Nation in 2004, called him "a virtuoso of a style and manner that would have been admired in Ferrara or Parma in the 1550s," and went on to describe him as "one of the brightest art stars of the early twenty-first century".

In June, I attended the opening week of the Venice Biennale with the intention of interviewing the biggest and brightest art stars for an online show I host and produce.