Sentence examples for posed figures from inspiring English sources

And his reproduction of "Grande Jatte" reduces its stiffly posed figures to silhouettes in gray, white and black.

The flat planes, rather stiffly posed figures, and precise, elegant detailing of the ornamentation suggest continuance in stone of an earlier tradition in wood.

Lanfranco's painting in the dome of San Andrea della Valle in Rome (1621 25) derives directly from Correggio in its virtuoso use of vigorously posed figures floating in the clouds over the spectator's head.

Particularly in Venice, where craftsmen followed the rules of a treatise by Filippo Buonanni (1722), a great originality was achieved by the informal spacing of bouquets of flowers around gracefully posed figures set against delicate hues of yellow and bluish green.

And look at the hens: a clutch of immaculately posed figures in cream and white, like a group portrait by Sargent, sitting down to dine as if supping at a ball, and illuminating the rooms, or the ravishing curve of a staircase, with a haze of candle flame.

Born in 1860, and a member of the Camden Town Group, Sickert, like Yiadom-Boakye, was gifted at painting wet-on-wet (completing canvases quickly, to avoid having to break the "skin" of paint that had dried overnight), disliked painting from nature, and specialized in ambivalently posed figures in domestic settings, about whom one longs to tell stories.

The same is true of Mr. Emanuel's "Reclining Lady," a large oil on paper, which uses simplified forms and textured paint to impart an archaic, timeless quality to the formally posed figure.

One side reveals the trouble he had sketching a foot that fits the position of a youthful male nude on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; the other shows the headless nude itself, a powerful, ingeniously posed figure that emphasizes the sculptor's magnificent grasp of anatomical rendering.

Mr. McAnuff, the Canadian-born director of Broadway's "Jersey Boys" (and a planned "Guys and Dolls" revival) and now the festival's artistic director, surrounds Mr. Plummer with enough kitschy ornament and hieroglyphically posing figures to supply a major mounting of "Aida".

And rather than the objects just being static, you can actually open and close toy car doors, pose figures and more.

Hand reaching to target pose (Figure 13(c)).