Sentence examples for dramatic canvas from inspiring English sources

De Chirico's 1923 "Ettore e Andromaca," a dramatic canvas depicting the Iliad's Hector embracing his wife Andromache, was estimated at $5 million to $7 million.

The painting was made the same year as Picasso's "Dora Maar With Cat," a far more dramatic canvas with a black cat perched on Maar's shoulder that sold for $95.2 million at Sotheby's in 2006.

Adam Sweeting Mercury Rev All Is Dream (V2) *** £14.99 Deserter's Songs, Mercury Rev's fourth album, sounds like a pastel sketch next to this grand, dramatic canvas of a follow-up.

Winslow Homer's dramatic 1894 canvas, "High Cliff, Coast of Maine," with its tiny figures dwarfed by the jagged rocks and pounding surf, is an antidote to the era's obsession with subduing nature.

Looking at this work, I could not help but recall the art of Valerio Adami, who often depicted simple, fractured, and at times dramatic interiors on canvas.

Two works by David Burliuk represent the early emigré experience: a 1921 Japanese seascape and a dramatic, mural-sized canvas (60 by 84 inches) painted in New York in 1933.

We learn that Eleanor's artist lover admires Delacroix's "dramatic use of the canvas" and "dense execution" and advocates the "shared bond" of energy between artist and model.

While at first it was used mainly for public performances, Clavilux then started to project color and light arrangements onto a canvas, creating dramatic and mystic effects.

At sea changes were even more dramatic: steam replaced sail, and iron and steel replaced wood and canvas.

Tops among the group was Kandinsky's 1932 canvas "Krass und Mild (Dramatic and Mild)." Kandinsky has had a high profile this season, thanks to a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Start with a top grade canvas thanks to the dramatic whitewater coastline and backdrop of elevations provided by mesa-like Table Mountain.