Sentence examples for painted setting from inspiring English sources

These were often supplemented by trompe l'oeil ("deceive the eye") columns, pilasters, arcading, balustrading, steps, and other architectural forms that also served to fuse the painted setting with the real interior.

An important Édouard Manet self-portrait – one of only two that the artist ever painted – set an auction record last night when it sold in London for £22.4m.

Against backgrounds that involve painted sets, props and digital manipulation, and with makeup that gives his face a painted quality, Mr. Morimura almost is Frida.

She appears in elaborate, cartoonishly painted sets representing her garret dressing room, the street and a hospital.

But some Met-goers may lament the passing of the beloved Hockney production and its beautiful, brightly painted sets.

Description is Freund's forte; many of her characters, however, are thinly sketched, giving her novel the feeling of a shadow-puppet play with elaborately painted sets.

Herve Villechaize kicked his cheque back into the production, even painted sets on weekends.

Doig found work painting sets for films—just painting at first, and then designing them.

He explains: "Basically it's artists doing it and painting sets and making things.

And the future talk-show host Sally Jessy Raphael did everything from painting sets to driving actors around.

That Salle should become her collaborator — painting sets and designing costumes for her ballets — seemed almost inevitable.