Sentence examples for paintings function from inspiring English sources

There is one particular sequence that Goya painted, in a work owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, in which six paintings function almost like a storyboard.

Paintings function mostly like genteel wallpaper here, but there are exceptions.

Employing the postmodern technique of pastiche, where the close display of disparate images and styles tends to reduce everything to equivalent signs, Salle's paintings function as metaphors for the dizzying onslaught of media culture.

The painted works of Spanish artist José Moñú might look digital, but this is just one the ways his paintings function as optical illusions.

A block away, at Luhring Augustine, you'll find another cheek-by-jowl display of paintings functioning as an installation, on purpose, as a way to stress the gallery's commercial function.

Dutch painters of the era maintained dizzyingly exalted standards of excellence across a range of genres, working for a market in which history paintings functioned as large-denomination currency and still-lifes were useful small change.

I caught Mr. Schulze's previous Team effort on its final day in March 2012: it was a bright, semi-domestic environment that filled the gallery's Wooster Street space with paintings functioning as tablecloths, as big planar bases for floor lamps and, in their usual form, as stretched canvases on the wall, including some that enhanced the houselike effect by depicting small windows.

"Red" centered on the idiosyncrasies and insights of genius, crunching (sometimes jarringly, to my ear) the intermittent exchanges of an extended working relationship into 90 minutes, with the gritty, beautifully detailed studio setting and the radiant paintings functioning as important characters in their own right.

I can't immediately think of any other titles of paintings that function in this way, separate from the picture itself, as a lovely and suggestive arrangement of words.

In line with the Romantic ideals of his time, he intended his paintings to function as pure aesthetic statements, so he was cautious that the titles given to his work were not overly descriptive or evocative.

And also, a lot of these were functional objects -- the chests of drawers, even the paintings had functions in conveying information, they had political messages and social messages.