Sentence examples for paintings hard from inspiring English sources

In his paintings hard noon light casts unflattering shadows on his sitters, who grimace and squint in protest.

Filled with visual jokes, art historical pastiche and unlovable people, Currin's paintings are hard to take seriously – in fact, hard to take at all, and certainly not at surface value, although surface is all they are.

His paintings were hard to love, but they are not easily forgotten.

ROBERTA SMITH DAN WALSH Paula Cooper Gallery 534 West 21st Street, Chelsea Through March 29 For purely visual gratification, Dan Walsh's paintings are hard to beat.

Soft wall textures and muted tones in a museum temper the light and bring out the colors in Impressionist paintings, while hard surfaces dull and flatten them.

The play of light, color, skin and paint is more seductive than ever, but at the cost of the formal and psychological bluntness that made Ms. Yuskavage's previous paintings so hard to take (Smith).

Selling paintings was hard work in the early 60s, and Keane's art enterprise took a few years to get off the ground.

The relief images on the black paintings are harder to make out.

While a single Pollock painting has sold for as much as $140 million, a controversy of whether they are authentic makes the prices of these paintings much harder to estimate.

The National Park Service has confirmed five paintings – probably hard-to-remove acrylic – that have been done in Yosemite, Death Valley, Crater Lake, Zion and Canyonlands national parks.

Some paintings are harder than others, but I remember one that was especially difficult for me: Breakfast Light.