Sentence examples for lively surface from inspiring English sources

But the lively surface is part of the underlying message of loss and compensation.

One of the most effective is "Snow and Creek," with its strong dark-light contrasts and lively surface patterns.

But all this skill adds up only to a lively surface, and a surface that often makes no sense.

In a Rubens drawing of a sleeping lion and a van Gogh landscape, short, gestural lines represent fur on the one hand and a field of tall grass on the other, while creating lively surface rhythms.

By repeated brushing, he builds his motifs layer by layer, as in "Mirage" (1999), whose rough, ridged, overall pattern of dirty white strokes on brown closely resembles a tree lichen, and the mural-size "Joy!" (2002), an extremely lively surface of ebullient, deeply layered color bars stroked side by side to make an informal, almost three-dimensional grid.

But Cardiff will feel they wasted a crucial opportunity to take maximum points from one of their promotion rivals, who looked totally devoid of ideas on a lively surface.

An insole pressure measurement system was used to measure the human-imparted force on both rigid and lively surfaces.

The Schubert, like the Bach, was sharply articulated and texturally pristine, but where Mr. Schimpf drove parts of the Bach relentlessly, he brought enough rubato and dynamic flexibility to the Schubert to give it a dramatic undercurrent to offset its bright, lively surfaces.

"Coyote paintings are complicated to analyze because they are so accessible and many people get stuck on the surface," observed the New [End Page 64] York contemporary artist Michael Pribich.2 Playful and colorful images of Coyote fill Fonseca's canvases, but beneath these familiar and lively surfaces, the artist seeks to challenge popular beliefs about Native identity.

Even an oyster and a lobster claw, rendered in actual size, animatedly claim attention, thanks not only to the quality of their drawing and color, but also to the lively paper surfaces created by the artist.

With a surge of brights currently parading down the fashion runways and clashing with the red carpet, and with lively lacquered surfaces in interiors and architecture changing color like structural chameleons, it is easy to mistake this colorful movement as a revival.