Sentence examples for paintings hardly from inspiring English sources

The Brooklyn show, which lacks some of the artist's best paintings, hardly exhausts a subject that interests in no end of ways.

Merlin James is recognised as a theoretical writer on art, but his paintings hardly seem the products of a high-minded academic.

For one, the collection largely consisted of reproductions of classical statuary and copies of Old Master paintings, hardly a significant attraction today.

Spot Paintings are hardly a new idea, or original to Hirst.

His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art.

The dolls in Elisabeth Condon's deceptively decorative paintings are hardly distinguishable from the children she depicts, blurring the distinction between reality and fantasy.

With works reminiscent of Kazimir Malevich and Ad Reinhardt's black paintings (he hardly invented it), Stella was hailed a sharp newcomer and a key figure in both minimalism and post-painterly abstraction, a term coined by art critic Clement Greenberg in 1964.

More remarkable still, three world auction records were set for famous artists represented by paintings that could hardly be described as their ultimate masterpieces.

These paintings, which could hardly be more different in terms of style, subject matter and palette, provide an apt metaphor for the artist's career, which can be divided into two distinct phases.

The eccentric shapes that make up the architecture of her paintings recall doodles — hardly the serious stuff on which heavy-duty abstraction is based.

The guest room, with its plush daybed, makes a fine reading retreat (though its splashy MacConnel quilt, made of his own painted cotton and swatches of found Mexican paintings on velvet, is hardly retiring).