Sert's painting technique is of particular interest because the painter's work changed from polychrome and decorative mural paintings in his former works to almost monochrome paintings (sepia, gilded and silvery tonalities).
These experimental evidences correspond to the two different finishing described from art historians for Sert paintings: a polychrome and decorative mural painting and a monochrome painting (sepia, gilded and silvery tonalities) that was, in the end, assumed as his characteristic way of painting [17].
Reverting to a more conventionally naturalistic style and often using his own photographs as references, he painted portraits of well-to-do people and decorative murals for their homes.
She has installed a grisaille mural in the lobby of a 57th Street office building as well as in Rockefeller Center, and she has done decorative murals for the offices of House Beautiful, House and Garden and other design magazines.
When she is not T, a rowdy, sex-crazed teenage girl; or Buck, a beer-swilling, gun-loving redneck; or Alice, a cake-baking, '50s-style homemaker, Tara has a career as an artist, painting decorative murals for rich women.
And it centers on a rich period — also the purview of the Museum of Modern Art's recent "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925" — that saw Kandinsky moving from the prismatic Expressionism of Der Blaue Reiter, the Munich-based artist group named for the motif of a blue horse and rider, into pure abstraction and from easel paintings into set designs and decorative murals.
Some of Mr. Coviello's favorite markets, worth a detour if you are nearby, are the PORTA PORTESE market in Rome, where he found small Renaissance-style portraits (inexpensive because they had been cut from large decorative murals), and the MERCATO DELLE PULCI in Palermo, where he bought vintage lampshades.
Interiors are a smart combination of old and new — maintaining many of the original features, such as marble staircases and decorative murals, but adding modern touches like new lighting, a glass-enclosed swimming pool and Dstrikt, a casual street-level restaurant.
On the other side of the decorative murals are the cells where Rebolledo is completing a six-year sentence for extortion.
Students of local art colleges have also designed decorative murals at Metro stations, while pillars of the viaduct on some elevated sections have been decorated with mosaic murals created by local schoolchildren.
During the day, the restaurant is relatively tame, with a decorative elephant mural and colorful flourishes.
