Sentence examples for set paintings from inspiring English sources

Indeed, next week the Milton Keynes Gallery will join the trend, opening a modern "cabinet of curiosities" that will set paintings by Gainsborough, Millais, Warhol and David Bowie next to taxidermied pelicans, medieval maps, and even an Aston Martin DB4, much like the one driven by James Bond in the 1960s.

A court ordered that a tea set, paintings and furniture owned by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Madikizela-Mandela, Mr. Mandelauctioned off next week to pay a $2,150 debt she owes to a private school for tuition and boarding for a relative, according to news reports.

Predictably, the office space is punctuated with extra-large bean bag chairs, a small community of dogs, board games, Halo (even conference rooms are named after parts of Halo),  a working train set, paintings of Carebears, and even a bubble machine that spews bubbles when someone breaks the build.

The show sets paintings, photographs and installations by 16 artists from Congo against works by 40 Japanese artists.

Visible brush strokes and unexpected color combinations -- maroon and sky blue, earth brown and chartreuse, salmon and mint -- set these paintings apart from textbook Minimalism.

African figures and benches from Jula Dukuray, a dealer friend in New York, are set amid paintings, 19th- and 20th-century American chests, leather armchairs from Crate & Barrel and historical artifacts — a sobering ball and chain, a comic cigarette lighter, a pincushion and thermometer set made from deer hooves — placed on a stack of industrial wood pallets.

Mr. Oliveira's canvases, with their solitary, spindly figures suspended in a soupy atmosphere, shared the vivid color sense of his fellow Bay Area artists, but his commitment to the darker side of the human drama set his paintings apart from the sun-kissed, hedonistic world of Mr. Diebenkorn's landscapes.

While much of the world is mired in economic gloom, the art market – which regularly sees multi-million prices set for paintings and sculpture – seems to be living in a parallel universe.

A version of an exhibition that was conceived and shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2010, it will include about 135 costumes, sets, paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, posters and film clips.

The people he paints are the stars of his work, though in setting his paintings against city backdrops of bricks and street art, Brooklyn is always a presence.

This version, created more than 20 years ago by Steve Siporin, a Californian, has a more lavish Ralph Lauren-style fireplace setting — horse paintings and chintz armchairs — though once the camera closes in on the fire, the flames are quite soothing.