The gown was received as a thing of great and suitably modest beauty the world over.
It will be the art of someone who, through a combination of brilliance, hard work and circumstance — the same factors that shape most major art careers — has become a global star and has achieved that status by working at home, finding a grand and modest beauty there, and spreading that beauty everywhere.
It will be the art of someone who, through a combination of brilliance, hard work and circumstance — the same factors that shape most major art careers — has become a global star and has achieved that status by working at home, finding a grand and modest beauty there, and spreading that beauty everywhere.
And I believe it's possible for anyone to go from modest beauty to bird of paradise.
But, wisely, he resists a didactic tone, concentrating instead on describing small plots whose modest beauties speak volumes.
And so while the paper-tube colonnade, matched with the purity of the white stones and the primary colors of the shipping containers, makes for an attractively stripped-down composition, on the whole the museum suggests little of the modest, vulnerable beauty that marks Ban's best designs.
But the drawings themselves, with their modest formal beauties tied to an ambitious vision, offer a kind of art -- an uncool, un-Duchampian esthetic, let's call it, one often associated with "outsider art" today -- that will have its appeal.
"With its undeniable beauty, quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul.
Maybe the modest prose of "Black Beauty" & "Tom Swift & His Electric Runabout are to give them pause, what of those passages of contemporary English that bewilder the contemporary reader.
Novels insists on 'the beauty of modest sentiments', and the novel is therefore the chosen art form of what Kundera, remembering his early life in Czechoslovakia, calls 'small nations'.
The ostensible subject of this smart, deceptively modest comedy is female beauty, which is also the apparent subject of a documentary made by one of its characters, a frustrated filmmaker named Kate, who is played by the screenwriter Lynne Adams.
