Sentence examples for mastery of the medium from inspiring English sources

This confirmed perfectionism and mastery of the medium.

With this exhibition we hope to demonstrate Sargent's mastery of the medium and the scale of his achievement".

The artist tries too hard to impress — and yet his mastery of the medium is such that he succeeds.

"Phoebe is one of the most accomplished artists in terms of mastery of the medium," says Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead.

Like Mr. Spielberg, whose mastery of the medium expresses itself in a kind of sublime playfulness, Mr. Hanks is a man with nothing left to prove.

But he wanted more, and over the next few decades transformed what was essentially a mercantile art form into high art through sheer mastery of the medium.

I have come to think of Klee as an exemplary artistic figure, facing outwards into the world and not painfully contemplative of the self, drawing mastery not just from his command of the medium, but from the struggles to control his tools.

Rubens showed an unrivaled mastery of the oil medium, creating for the monarchs of France and Spain fluid, luminous works of great energy and power.

He transcends mastery of the watercolor medium in his work titled "Late October" (18" x 9") with a bird's-eye view landscape that incites one's senses.

Although they learned the art rather late, the Japanese ivory carvers of the Tokugawa period (1603 1867) quickly developed an astonishing mastery of this medium and created many miniature works of art that still excite admiration.

Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and - most of all - the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.