I would love to describe The Parrots as a searing satire of London's elite, but unfortunately it's just a rather dull paint-by-numbers portrait of wealth and privilege.
But that can make for very dull painting.
If I'm too careful, I end up with a very dull painting.
Waxed linoleum, dull green paint, an antiseptic smell.
The walls were still wet from a fresh coat of dull beige paint.
Some of the most beautiful, the Fragonard-esque pastoral scenes by Shinn on the mezzanine level, had been entirely effaced with a layer of dull gray paint, for reasons that are hard to fathom.
Taking an old furniture advertisement, with its half-tone pictures of heavily upholstered settees and easy chairs ("3-piece suite £21"), Whiteread obscures the entire page with dull grey paint, leaving only a single ugly chair, sitting in dismal isolation.
Abrasive blasting was applied to the surface and the rugged surface was sprayed with dull black paint.
Actually, Johns' recent work - the four large paintings entitled The Seasons, the recent show of Catenaries - is about as dull as painting can get, full of obscure symbolism that says little and has no intensity, and is done with a paint-by-numbers inertia.
Ms. Toumpakari is a beguiling performer, and she was dressed (scantily) for the part in a flesh-colored thong with melon-colored ruffling partly encircling her hips, thick strands of red and green beaded necklaces and dull-pink paint covering her calves, forearms and the upper half of her face.
Innokentii lowered his brow onto the dull-red painted iron of the safe and rested there with closed eyes.
