Sentence examples for painting within from inspiring English sources

The painting within the painting is a clue.

Yet the woman in the painting within the painting seems as alive as the woman in front.

She is obviously the spiritual lodestar of the family, and to commemorate her sacrifices, she is the subject of the painting within this painting, posed with a cross.

Right in the center, though, like an open window, is a painting within the painting, a view of a lakeside house or hotel in a lush garden landscape.

"La Lumière des Coïncidences" (The Light of Coincidences) in gouache and watercolor, fully signed and dated, deals with the theme of "the painting within the painting".

Ms. Welish, painting within the boundaries of the traditional canvas, sets up dialogues between grid systems in primary colors and black and white.

It was hidden beneath another Magritte painting, The Human Condition, a painting-within-a-painting in which a painted mountain view on an easel blends almost seamlessly with a mountain view behind it.

There are new allusions to abstract painting: the wavy bands of color in a painting-within-a-painting in "Superintendent" or the lusciously striped walls behind the bearded physicists in "Creator".

On the arm of a smashed throne – a painting-within-a-painting – a stick emerges from the arse of a man whose top half is stuck inside a basket.

And both are different from the flattened, almost ironed planes of "Sea Window: Tinker Mackerel" and "Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain" (titles that are almost poems themselves), which seem to compress the interior and window from one of Matisse's Nice interiors into a painting-within-a-painting vise.

And there are odd showstoppers, like Kato Nobukiyo's 1792 ink painting of "Ten Rakan Examining a Painting of White-Robed Kannon," an image of Buddhist disciples gathered around a painting-within-a-painting of a bodhisattva in which every last pictorial element is delineated in Chinese characters spelling out a section of the "Lotus Sutra".