Sentence examples for figure style from inspiring English sources

The work is decoratively lavish, but the figure style conveys only distant reflections of Italian painting.

Lipchitz' figure style of the late 1920s and '30s is inseparable from his emerging optimistic humanism.

His figure style is very strongly characterized and detailed and, at times, emotional.

The figure style is often harder and flatter than previously, characterized by strictly frontal positions and symmetry.

In figure style, the standard of formal complexity had been set by Michelangelo and that of idealized beauty by Raphael.

It seems likely that Nicholas seized the whole figure style as a tool to be used in the general exploration of new forms of realism.

His paintings suggest something of those tensions in dealing with ancient subjects and figure styles; indeed, Chen gave a brief but vigorous new life and dignity to the art of figure painting that had been in limbo since the Song dynasty (960 1279).

This was the period of the red-figure style, used on the most famous of ancient potteries.

In these, and particularly in the Gesù, he combined an ecstatic religious figure-style, derived from Bernini, and a melting, sensual treatment of the heads, derived from Correggio, with his own masterly organization of masses of light and shade and an attractive bravura of execution.

You can, of course, just sit back and enjoy: the pieces are not designed as primers in Spanish dance but as stage works, generally with Spanish subjects (famous figures), styles or themes (blood, passion and death crop up a lot).

The highlights of Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2012-13 programming season will include six separate mini-festivals dedicated to major jazz figures, styles and institutions of the past and present, the organization announced Tuesday.