Sentence examples for paintings off from inspiring English sources

Fifty years ago, Gilliam was the first American artist to show paintings off their stretchers, folding, twisting and draping them into sculptural hybrids.

They chipped paintings off walls and sent them home.

To make ends meet, he had to sell some of the paintings off his walls.

BEIJING — It almost wouldn't be a real Chinese art opening without security officials barging in and ordering paintings off the wall.

Thieves broke in through a rear emergency exit of the gallery, grabbed the paintings off the wall and fled within two minutes.

Rather than plucking three paintings off a wall, the curators said, they spent considerable time hunched over laptops looking at performances.

In the fourth Berlin Biennial at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art last spring, he exhibited small, dark paintings off-site, in what seemed to be a painter's apartment and was, in fact, his own.

The building has a gallery space that hosts pop-up shows, including an exhibition for Open Studios artists last fall that featured abstract paintings, off-kilter sculptures and a mannequin of a woman — striped like a zebra, draped on a sofa.

The artist scrapes paint off old paintings, draws circles with his eyes closed, and deflates soccer balls for the sake of conceptual art.

Dadaists, futurists and other avant-garde artists dedicated themselves to breaking down the barriers between painting, literature and performance only to see their paintings shipped off to art museums while the manifestos and other writings that explained them went to libraries.

Instead, there are happy spectators, paintings sliding off at angles, things reflected in other things.