For a year or so, he worked mainly in stainless steel, a material whose impersonal, reflective brilliance he found "intoxicating".
New material or the same brilliance?
Also represented will be the small box-sculptures in which Mr. Samaras noodles gaudy dime-store materials into an explosive brilliance.
Then, with the blessing of Patriarch Mesrob II, the researchers began to "record the brilliance of the material and put a 'face' on the unknown artisans who created a phenomenal body of material culture, from the monumental to the miniature," Mr. Marchese said.
Because its granular, nonpolished surface is often preferred to the hard brilliance of other materials, stone is also widely used in modern mosaics.
Because the quilts have been so carefully preserved, the colors retain their original brilliance and the materials themselves show little evidence of deterioration.
On Swedish life and letters he has exercised a lasting influence and is admired for his originality, his extraordinary vitality, and his powerful imagination, which enabled him to transform autobiographic material into dramatic dialogue of exceptional brilliance.
Dishes that shine with the life and light of the brilliance of the raw materials.
It is an artistic given that reality is transformed, ordered and highlighted, but while Hadley is a disciplined editor of her own material, she exercises such restraint that her brilliance is ultimately muted.
The new material lacks the slivers of quicksilver electro-brilliance of oldies such as Kinky Afro and Step On but gains in lewdness; Uncle Dysfunktional is so sleazy, it almost warrants legal attention.
