Sentence examples for formal originality from inspiring English sources

This is due not only to the formal originality of Gehry's design, but also to the idea animating it.

As architect John McAslan, who seconded the nomination, put it: "His engineering intelligence has always equalled his formal originality".

This was no disadvantage to Miró's reputation in the days and ways of high modernism, which exalted formal originality as gripping enough, in and of itself.

Discerning eyes have nevertheless seen metaphors of the body in his Naples sketches, with their ambiguous openings and expressive façades.Jones's formal originality lay in what he did to the picture plane.

Finally, one can read a large portion of Davis's work, spanning three decades and more than seven hundred pages, and a grand cumulative achievement comes into view — a body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom.

Finally, one can read a large portion of Davis's work, spanning three decades and more than seven hundred pages, and a grand cumulative achievement comes into view a body of work probably unique in American writing, in its combination of lucidity, aphoristic brevity, formal originality, sly comedy, metaphysical bleakness, philosophical pressure, and human wisdom.

I responded to his way of approaching very large topics (love, the meaning of literature, photography) in oblique ways, with great formal innovation and originality.

Personal expression and depth were not goals, nor was formal invention or originality -- all are as necessary in popular art as any other kind.

Mounted on that are a cartoony phantasmagoria by Kenny Scharf and a vigorously scribbled composition by Basquiat, who seems overqualified, in both originality and formal mastery, for the juxtaposition.

In the process, I illustrate the ways these concepts speak to the status and social function of authorial ownership and originality; multimodal complexity; and formal reflexivity.

You have many questions raised about art and the often unquestioned ideas surrounding it, like originality, authenticity, influence, history, formal value and biography-as-value.