Sentence examples for haunting paintings from inspiring English sources

A particular treat is its rich hall of German Expressionists, with haunting paintings by modern masters including Otto Dix, Ernst Kirchner and Max Beckmann.

(Cassandra is an artist herself; three of her small, rather haunting paintings of familiar objects — cats, food — hung on the wall).

THE haunting paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on show in the final leg of a travelling tour that has already attracted thousands of visitors in Hamburg and The Hague, may come as a surprise to many.

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh from 2 August until 27 October Goya, El Médico (The Doctor) This shadowy vision of the human predicament is one of the most haunting paintings in Edinburgh's greatest art collection.

In keeping with the above gloss concerning visual art, we come upon a second feature of these translated "snow poems" of Yves Bonnefoy their accompaniment by eight equally haunting paintings by Farhad Ostovani, an Iranian artist living and working in Paris with whom Bonnefoy has collaborated on two dozen books and catalogues in recent years.

Based on Tracy Chevalier's popular novel, "Girl With a Pearl Earring" imagines the story behind the creation of one of Johannes Vermeer's most haunting paintings.

The show even includes tiny (very tiny) hints of the haunting "Black Paintings," which Goya painted during his final days in self-imposed exile in France.

The Art of Flight focuses on Gunnar Widforss, exalted in the United States for his haunting landscape paintings of national parks.

Fried convincingly relates Menzel's haunting "private paintings" of desolate interiors or courtyards to writers like Kierkegaard, Kafka and W. G. Sebald -- Menzel's anxious fellow practitioners in the art of "embodiment".

Andy Moses told me the next day that "Natalie Arnoldi's haunting atmospheric paintings of airplanes in the mist as well as deserted gas stations and deserted roads that vanish into nothingness create infinite and constantly shifting levels of mystery.

(Athena now lives in Paris and Brooklyn and works as an artist, making haunting three-dimensional paintings, sculptures, and shadow boxes out of such materials as honeycombs and oyster shells).