Sentence examples for modest drawings from inspiring English sources

Their rather modest drawings seemed to show an art gallery that still looked very much like the power station.

His even more modest drawings, which he produced in quantity, may be his greatest, most modern works — though they too have their problems.

The modest drawings of a shoulder and a man's arm are studies for the "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, Reuters reported.

The use of found material reaches opposing apotheoses in Ernesto Neto's modest drawings (two use saffron) and Mr. Muniz's large color photograph "Narcissus, After Caravaggio" (2005), which is the result of skillfully marshaling a pile of junk into an old-master image.

Here his contribution is modest line drawings.

The two Basquiats in Mr. Ettinger's sale are modest pencil drawings with estimates in the $15,000-to-$15,000-to-$15,000-to-$30,000on of the $3.3 million that a Basquiat sold for at a Christie's sale in 1998.

This modest show of drawings and sculptures offers a glimpse of the artist who in company with Picasso revolutionized modern sculpture by inventing welded-steel assemblage.

This modest show of drawings by present and past members of the National Academy, organized by the Photo Realist painter Robert Cottingham, functions best as an instructive catalog of the varieties of line that artists may put into play.

For the six painters under consideration here -- each represented by black-and-white photographs and modest paintings or drawings -- the photograph could be an art form in its own right, and it could be a useful tool to assist in the creation of paintings.

The drawing was bought in the 1950s by Reading's professor of fine art who had a modest budget to buy drawings to use for teaching purposes.

Working drawings provide modest revelations about Lichtenstein's studio practice — demonstrating, for example, that he would first make quick sketches, then project and render them on canvas as hard-edged designs.