"lively paintings" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a group of works of art when the pieces have bright colors and look animated or energetic. For example, "The gallery's walls were lined with vibrant, lively paintings."
The walls, which haven't been painted in 25 years, are decorated with lively paintings, works of friends.
Chelsea Through tomorrow Seen in a New York context, the likable, lively paintings of Marcelo Pombo, a 43-year-old Argentine artist, suffer from borderline genericism.
There's pleasure to be had, certainly, at Gagosian, in eleven lively paintings by Frankenthaler from a two-year period, 1962-63, when she was transitioning from oils to acrylics, then a modish new medium.
With recreations of fabled historical events and fantasies about the past, his lively paintings, riddled with nostalgic themes, helped give his audience the fiction of a shared past, and through this presented the possibility of a united future.
Harker just returned from her second trip to Italy where her lively paintings were featured in two solo exhibitions.
Barbara Klein's lively abstract paintings "Betty Boop Blush" (2000) and "Bump" (1998) are an example of how biomorphic form and geometry can coexist.
If you mention the name Peter Nadin in New York art circles, there is often a flicker of recognition, a memory of lively, idiosyncratic paintings that never settled into a recognizable style or fit comfortably enough into the Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s for him to be included among its practitioners.
Though very popular, his lively, carefree, elegant paintings have been criticized as occasionally bordering on the superficial.
In this group show, Gus Yero is showing lively, colorful acrylic paintings that suggest lush tropical gardens filled with exotic flora and fauna.
Marcus Kenney appropriates canceled checks, newspaper print, glossy magazine images, antique wallpaper and other paper products to create lively, cartoonlike collage paintings of playground scenes.
In one especially lively corner are paintings by Alison Fox, Dana Schutz, Patricia Treib and the veteran artist Marilyn Minter, whom Mr. VanDerBeek said they invited simply because "she signed the book at just about every show".
