Sentence examples for sensitive paintings from inspiring English sources

Rauschenberg's notorious erasure of a drawing by de Kooning and Johns's perversely sensitive paintings of flags and targets had expressed high-strung anxieties of populist influence.

Jo Baer, famous half a century ago for her minimalist abstractions, astonishes with perfectly scaled, sensitive paintings, on gray fields, of mingled artifacts, buildings, and landscapes that are redolent of cultures ancient, medieval, and modern.

Her apartment on West 67th Street was full of books and photos on the Yiddish theatre and her sensitive landscape paintings.

The use of water-free lime-based grouts for the conservation of wall paintings, plaster and stucco is of great interest, for example if salt content or humidity-sensitive paint layers are present.

These are paintings sensitive to Venice's moody beauty, which is all the more overpowering because of its imperfections.

This section also includes several sensitive, beautiful portrait paintings, like Jean Metzinger's gentle, lovely portrait of his wife, Lucie Soubiran, wearing a pale jacket or shawl over a blue top and sitting on a wood framed chair in an interior.

The watercolours she made of children and nuns, and of the relationships between them and the words of the service, are some of her most sensitive and private paintings.

Mr. Hurwit's interior alterations were also unusually sensitive, and remarkable ceiling paintings, molding, trim, wood carving and other details survive.

The paper and pigments in ukiyo-e paintings are sensitive to light and seasonal changes in humidity.

At the heart of this sensitive compilation of Twombly's paintings, not to mention his sculptures and Polaroid photographs, are paintings that sink themselves into the frenzy and rage of Homer's Iliad.

Pompeii was excavated by sensitive scholars who preserved its paintings without excessively touching them up, or "completing" the Roman houses.