Sentence examples for colour conventions from inspiring English sources

Derain's dazzling view of the Thames is a masterpiece of fauvism, the avant-garde style in which he and Matisse abandoned all colour conventions to create expressive pictures that vibrate with light and energy.

Updated at 11.04pm BST 10.56pm BST Barack Obama personally intervened in the platform amendment, according to the Huffington Post's Sam Stein, who has background and colour from the convention hall: A source informed on the deliberations told The Huffington Post that President Obama personally interevened to strenghten the language.

Anti-discrimination conventions for people of colour, women, children, gay and lesbians add flesh, blood and sex to the pale outline of the "human".

For Chanel, black was the definition of simple elegance and, ever disregarding of conventions, she helped bring the colour into everyday wear.

A nationally known figure, he shocked his listeners at the 1843 national convention of free people of colour when he called upon slaves to murder their masters.

Throughout the paper, we adopt a convention of colour-coding for platforms: Affymetrix are represented by magenta, Agilent by red, Illumina by black, and Nimblegen by blue.

We separated luminance and colour using the 1976 CIE L*a*b* (CIELAB) colour-space convention (see Figure 2 and Supplementary Methods (SM)).

But step inside and convention gives way to a riot of colour.

The Colour of Magic is also effective as a satire of pre-1990s fantasy conventions.

There are certain very basic conventions in the manmade world, for instance, red is a colour of alert and is international".

Using the conventions described above and listed in Table 4, these tracks are colour-coded according to their location/effect on the transcript (label 3).