Sentence examples for facile portrait from inspiring English sources
Over the fireplace in the relaxing area, a facile portrait of Mrs. Carson, who deserves more eloquent brushwork, smilingly surveys the swimming pool.
His facile portraits reflect the courtly and elegant manner that came to be preferred in Dutch painting from that time.
Where West's depiction of the trauma of war offers both a facile diagnosis and facile cure, Woolf's portrait of postwar London provides no easy answers.
Sargent's copy of Velázquez's portrait of a model posing as Aesop displays a facile but terrific mimicry of the master's way with a brush.
Easily derided after his death as a facile, if accomplished, colourist, it is Bonnard's secretive, moody portraits of the woman, Marthe, many of them posed in the privacy of her bathroom, that mark him out as a painter of elegy.
The ability to focus on unsigned portraits, however great, may be gone, but the taste for facile picturesque art remains widespread.
Were Mr. Teller's Polaroid shots of aspiring supermodels in one room and giant portraits of smiling Miss Universe contestants in another raw or facile?
In the Norwegian Henrik Louis Lund's portrait of a bearded man in a slouch hat and spectacles leaning elbow-wise on a fence, facile draftsmanship and patchy, Cézannesque paint application combine to deadening effect.
Both are dangerously facile.
