The phrase "captivating work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe any type of creative work, such as art, literature, music, or film, that has held the interest and attention of the audience. For example: The film was a captivating work of art, with stunning visuals and an emotionally gripping story.
This fixating, absurd and utterly captivating work is by American artist Charles Ray.
After this, he played Mr. Adams's 1977 "China Gates," a quietly captivating work that essentially announced the composer's new approach to American Minimalism.
It is a genuinely captivating work, a roadside Magritte in which various unrelated objects (an arrow, a shapely glass of soda, a fashionable woman in a hat and gloves) float dreamily against a cloud-laced sky.
With their latest releases featuring some of their strongest and most captivating work yet, this deal would be right opportunity to finally give the band the sort of leverage they rightfully deserve.
"Until then, this research project continues to be very captivating work because of its similarity to natural insects.
Perhaps the most captivating work of the day, however, was the first one: a site-specific performance by The Dirty Projector's Olga Bell of Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room a 1969 sound art piece recently acquired by MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art.
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Looking at these captivating works it is clear that we have got the history of modern art wrong.
Start at the Memling in Sint-Jan Hospitaal Museum (Mariastraat 38; 32-50-44-87-71; museabrugge.be), where six captivating works by Hans Memling adorn a small chapel.
IN the 1930's and early 40's, before John Cage made his pioneering explorations of random procedures in composition, before he wrote his captivating works for prepared piano (inserting screws and glass pieces into the strings to create an exotically new sound resource), before he conceived of compositions for a stageful of radios turned on and off, he composed charming and mercurial piano pieces.
Some of the most captivating works take the form of sheets of transparent acetate suspended between glass where the painted circles – pale as bubbles, or dark as night – float in thin air, alien bodies hovering in space, creating the most unexpected reflections and shadows.
