Sentence examples for postcard surface from inspiring English sources
Older postage stamps were backed with a gum that had to be licked to stick it onto the envelope or postcard surface.
Jeremy Deller's luminous smiley faces appear rather limp compared with two postcards which show three-dimensional drawings of everyday objects in blue pen: a bunch of flowers, a key, a comb, a nail file and a hair grip hang eloquently on a blank postcard's surface.
The most recent paintings incorporate postcards into their surfaces, often tenderly expanding these tiny scenes into immense panoramas, with or without various spatial twists.
In the vibrant hothouse that is Chris Garofalo's Chicago studio, nearly every surface holds carefully composed displays — natural specimens, souvenir postcards, family photos and random objects, like a petrified frog or lurid blue ceramic eggplants.
Many of the postcard collages she made over the years had fragile objects attached to their surfaces: seashells, feathers, tiny bones of birds and the like.
Disappearing world * Other picture-postcard islands under threat from rising seas include Palau, Nauru, which has a surface area of only 21sq km, the Seychelles, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands and the Marshall Islands.
The pictures fly through space on a flat surface, disconcerting in their overlapping assemblages and yet soothingly reminiscent of a Victorian postcard.
In "Mainer," Mr. Wegman takes advantage of an illustrated postcard of a diagonal coastline festooned with flowers, extending the scene with ever-larger blossoms into a giant postcard that creates all kinds of odd, almost Cubist spatial disjunctions, relative to the other, more modestly expanded postcards that share the surface.
