Sentence examples for raw paintings from inspiring English sources

They were invited as part of Wide Open Walls, a project conceived to bring African-inspired street art into rural Gambia, and the monumental, raw paintings look wonderful in this context.

Neel's raw, intimate paintings reflected conditions of poverty and disease with unparalleled honesty.

By his early 20s Caravaggio had moved to Rome and was selling raw, shocking paintings in corner shops, his models apparently male prostitutes.

He would scrape the surfaces of his paintings raw with a meat cleaver.

His raw but spirited paintings in sunny colors have a childlike appeal.

In the ever-expanding range of unconventional media available to contemporary artists, few would consider using over-the-counter treatments, including topical antiseptics and effervescent vitamin C tablets as raw material in paintings.

The paintings are raw and baggy, but the spiritual enterprise as a whole is moving (Johnson).

The titles can be a distraction, different from first, raw impressions of the paintings.

Raw and vituperative, his paintings combine the monstrosities of Goya's voracious "Saturn" and Francis Bacon's screaming pope with an element of caricature more suggestive of George Grosz.

We've enough metal ducting to ventilate Ibrox, plus rough wood walls (a lethal threat to tights and skirts), raw sandstone, moody oil paintings, and textured wall-hangings that look like untreated tripe.

I shed tears the first time I saw the artist's attempted magnum opus — "The Stations of the Cross" (1958-66), fourteen mostly black-and-white paintings on raw canvas that normally reside at the National Gallery in Washington — but I was in a tired and emotional state at the time.