Sentence examples for prevailing styles of from inspiring English sources

Through Nov. 5 In Canada before World War I, the prevailing styles of painting were still European.

Designing the Decades BBC2, 8pm (6209) Not strictly a music show, but punk rock looks likely to make an appearance somewhere in this overview of the prevailing styles of the 1970s.

"The Photographs of Laura Gilpin," organized by Martha A. Sandweiss of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, reveals a photographer whose independent spirit was tempered by the prevailing styles of the day.

The heads of French hostages, still lifes or abstract forms are the subjects, but it is the brusque physicality and small scale, so at odds with the prevailing styles of Abstract Expressionism and Tachism, that matters.

Neue Sachlichkeit, (German: New Objectivity), a group of German artists in the 1920s whose works were executed in a realistic style (in contrast to the prevailing styles of Expressionism and Abstraction) and who reflected what was characterized as the resignation and cynicism of the post-World War I period in Germany.

In the third essay, Nietzsche focusses upon the truth-oriented ascetic ideals that underlie and inform prevailing styles of art, religion and philosophy, and he offers a particularly scathing critique of the priesthood: the priests are allegedly a group of weak people who shepherd even weaker people as a way to experience power for themselves.

These two quintessentially iconoclastic painters present interesting parallels due to their their career-long disregard for prevailing styles, their similarity of approach and their passionate pursuit of the possibilities of paint.

Many art schools now favor a conceptual approach to art-making, encouraging students to figure out their own path through experimentation and a critical awareness of prevailing styles, but RISD adheres to an older tradition.

The couple again wanted a distinctive house — not a colonial, the prevailing style there.

By good fortune, the prevailing style of the moment was High Ethnic.

The nipped-in waist and boxy shape of this ensemble are remnants of the prevailing style of the Forties.