Sentence examples for knowledge of paintings from inspiring English sources

Thus, for instance, appropriate appreciation of a work such as Picasso's Guernica (1937) requires that we experience it as a painting and moreover as a cubist painting, and therefore that we appreciate it in light of our knowledge of paintings in general and of cubist paintings in particular (Walton 1970).

M.F.A. Should possess wide-ranging knowledge of paintings and antiquities, and of people at other auction houses.

One time, we went to the Prado in Madrid and he amazed me with his knowledge of paintings and painters.

Amazingly, the Hermitage's director, Mikhail Pyotrovsky--whose Pyotrovsky--whose Pyotrovsky--whoser father years--had no knowledge of the paintingservedl 1991.

Rembrandt's use of Caravaggesque devices in his early works derives in large part from his knowledge of Honthorst's paintings.

By comparison, painting in Paris during the first decades of the 17th century was relatively insignificant, with the exception of that of Claude Vignon, who exchanged his Mannerist training for a style based on Elsheimer and to a lesser extent Lastman, and who in the 1620s revealed a remarkable knowledge of the earliest paintings of Rembrandt.

Sir Nicholas, in his affidavit, asked that the "court does everything in its power to restrict knowledge of this application until the paintings have been recovered" in order not to jeopardise the operation.

"There's something in Caravaggio that shows a real street knowledge of the sinner; his sacred paintings are profane".The show contains only 16 works, yet each one stands out from the wall and absorbs the viewer, providing new insight into both the life and art of the baroque master.

"They don't tend to stay a long time and they don't usually have knowledge of the building or the paintings.

Organized by Sabine Rewald, a Met curator with deep knowledge of Balthus, the exhibition spreads 34 paintings of mostly adolescent girls — 9 of which include cats — through four galleries.

Still, thousands of paintings remained.