The style of his work was too decorative, the subject too gay, and he was too femme.
The authors concluded that, despite a small sample size and various skin conditions, the use of decorative cosmetics in subjects with disfiguring skin disease is an effective, well tolerated treatment to help increase QoL and that decorative cosmetics should complement medical treatment protocols.
Among the plethora of monographs available on decorative objects, one subject has been overlooked: the furniture designs of Eero Saarinen.
But he was obliged to smarten up by the vertical format, which had served since the Baroque, usually for portraits, as a vehicle of elegance in subject matter and decorative function.
A more decorative approach to the subject is seen in the flattened portraits by Holbein, the Elizabethan and itinerant naïve U.S. limners, and the East Asian paintings of ancestors, poets, priests, and emperors.
I saw the Berliner Ensemble when they came to London in 1956, and learned from Brecht how theatre could take on big subjects and banish decorative staging.
In his "Interiors" series, Mthethwa frames his subjects among the decorative details of their homes: makeshift wallpaper, tablecloths, patterned linoleum, folded blankets.
Mrs. Sukul Kemraj has also worked her decorative magic on more unlikely subjects, among them porcelain dolls that have the look of Victorian milkmaids, complete with blond ringlets, fans and lace party dresses.
As an aid to less experienced score readers, Mr. Brookshire and Mr. McElwaine engaged Pete Romano, a composition student at Purchase, to render the work's fugue subjects, countersubjects and decorative expansions in different colors.
A year earlier, Matisse had offended Picasso with the audacity of his "Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)," which Picasso judged, accurately but pejoratively, as the oxymoron of a sensual subject in a decorative style.
