Sentence examples for operatic paintings from inspiring English sources
IN his day, the Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) widelydely admired for his colossal, operatic paintings of beefcake with epic pectorals ravaging pudgy maidens.
Operatic paintings by Delacroix in the same gallery, of biblical scenes and North American Indian life, give a fantastically different impression of early- 19th-century art and the Romantic impulse.
In some ways the approach he gravitated toward resembles that of 19th-century painters like Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt, whose operatic paintings of mountains and wild skies have a near-photographic verisimilitude and a transcendentalist God implicated in the details.
With their fevered – if coded – expression of his country's buried traumas, the postwar German art great Georg Baselitz's paintings have always been a touch operatic.
The display will include selections from a series he did of his father, costumed for various operatic roles, including Boris Godunov and Don Quixote; earlier works done in Paris, and paintings and sketches that he did in New York and in Connecticut at Easton, where he lived and worked from 1964 until his death in 1979.
They -- and to only a slightly lesser extent the show's other paintings on canvas and paper -- are high-energy operatic productions.
For most of the 20th century his paintings were relegated to the dustbin of art history along with similarly operatic landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church.
And from the thousands of photographs she took of the paintings and sculptures, many of them obscure but some celebrated, she assembled an operatic 25-minute slide show, pairing Louvre images with many of her own dating back to the late 1970s.
The scenario is augmented with a series of paintings and collages in space, and live music lends it an element of the operatic, while the natural difference between the male and female voices is aligned using a vocoder, which modifies or 'bends' the gendered voices.
Those operatic high notes!
