Sentence examples for paintings if from inspiring English sources

I prefer artists who, like me, use paint rather than make paintings, if you get my drift: artists whose materials and processes have a contextual and conceptual appropriateness; who are fully aware of the relationship between signifier and the signified and who are open to multiple readings of their work.

There's the scene with the Jackson Pollock painting, where Nathan suggests that the artist would never have started his paintings if he had to plan everything in advance.

The bottom of each compartment is hand-painted by the artist, so the trays could be mistaken for Modernist paintings if hung on the wall.

Have a look at the paintings if you can drag the kids off the computers.

You kill the price of paintings if you put them on display.

In such cases, recovering the paintings, if they are recovered at all, can take years, even decades.

Stringy extrusions of paint form nets over the surfaces of Wendy Edwards's paintings, as if to contain the energy of their colors and gestures.

With ivory skin and reddish-blond hair, the willowy Mrs. Weiss resembles the women from Vermeer's paintings -- if Vermeer's ladies had dressed with the flair of a 21st-century professional woman.

Maybe he looked through the wrong end, to see his paintings as if from afar.

But the Hudson is in these paintings, even if it is but a cameo.

All this lends kinetic energy and movement to the paintings, even if the faces don't always show complex emotions.