Sentence examples for idiosyncratic portrait from inspiring English sources

"Dunes" (1935), by Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949) — an idiosyncratic portrait painter who also produced nature-based abstraction — has a visionary vibe, as does "No!," a large 1981 painting of a staring head by Gino De Dominicis.

"Little Birds" is an intimate, idiosyncratic portrait of two fifteen-year-old girls, Lily and Alison, who live on the shores of the Salton Sea, a briny lake in California's Imperial Valley.

The movie's steadily elegiac tone precludes it from creating a more lively, idiosyncratic portrait of a man who, by many accounts, was a wonderful raconteur whose gift of gab was complemented by a rollicking sense of humor.

He shared with us two of the strangest UFO-encounter stories he's come across tales that have inspired his idiosyncratic portraits.

His virtuoso portraits of his idiosyncratic characters are fully backed by his evocative portrayal of the world they live in and the history they live through.

But if the parts are erratic, the whole is an endearing portrait of an idiosyncratic personality, now addressing itself to personal as well as abstract concerns.

Simply as a straight memoir – that is, if she had never become famous – I think this would function as a critical but sensitive portrait of an idiosyncratic but intensely appealing character.

They are part of an idiosyncratic collection of 70 self-portraits built by Siegbert Feldberg, a German-Jewish clothing manufacturer who bartered suits and coats with artists in exchange for paintings.

For all the seriousness Lehman loads into those undulating eyes, his playful way with form turns each of his portraits into an idiosyncratic invention.

Ostensibly, they are there to document Numan's shift to Los Angeles (hence the La La Land of the title), but their actual accomplishment is to conjure up a portrait of an intelligent, idiosyncratic and really rather admirable musical personality.

On top of that you get idiosyncratic delights such as Arcimboldo's portraits of faces made from vegetables, flowers and fish.