The figures are brought close into the foreground, and in the Apostles a new brilliance of colour is achieved.
Ryan Mosley shares the others' humorous abandon but adds a manic, mysterious imagination and brilliance of colour all his own.
The excellent Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra delivers the climactic moments with brilliance and colour, without indulgence or heaviness and, especially in the transformation music, with rare transparency.
Yet even when the plot disappoints, Tchaikovsky's score never does – soundpainting the action and the emotional undertow with brilliance and colour.
The addition of the woodwind instrument enabled Mozart to achieve a high level of brilliance and colour throughout; the Clarinet Quintet is one of the monuments of the literature.
The resulting pictures suggest that Monet contributed the pattern of separate brushstrokes, the light tonality, and the brilliance of colour; Renoir the overall iridescence, feathery lightness of touch, and delight in the recreation of ordinary people.
Yet oil paint is the least-satisfactory medium for murals: it lacks both brilliance of colour and surface texture, many pigments are yellowed by the binder or are affected by atmospheric conditions, and the canvas itself is subject to rapid deterioration.
Van Eyck is credited by Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari with the invention of oil painting (paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle), but, if so, it is an invention that began at the peak of technical perfection, for no succeeding painter's works have so well maintained their freshness of surface and brilliance of colour.
Yet even the Haikai's brilliance and colour were shaded by Couleurs de la Cité Céleste, which, in 1963, marked Messiaen's return to his very own brand of musical theology, after more than a decade in which he had avoided such connotations.
This spectacular moth is considered one of the most impressive and beautiful Lepidoptera, rivalling almost any of the butterflies in brilliance of colouring and form.
