Sentence examples for sombre colour from inspiring English sources

I walk around staring at one colossal rectangle of sombre colour after another.

They contain classical, medieval, theological and philosophical works and come wrapped in dust-jackets of a single sombre colour plus white.

His early work is characterized by sombre colour and dramatic feeling suited to the Byronic subjects that he painted in Paris during 1840 43, such as Manfred on the Jungfrau (c. 1840) and Parisina's Sleep (1842).

If Prada says that classic clothes with a whiff of the early 70s and a sombre colour palette are modern, her track record indicates that she will be proven right.

Rothko told Fischer that in the villa he sensed "a deep affinity" between the Seagram murals and the Roman wall paintings - "the same feeling, the same broad expanses of sombre colour".

He continued to develop his mature painting style, characterized by thick brushwork, sombre colours, and depictions of massive human figures.

At the Salon of 1814, Géricault's Wounded Cuirassier shocked critics with its mournful subject and sombre colours.

Dürer used predominantly unmixed, cool, sombre colours, which, despite his failure to contrast light and dark adequately, still suggest depth and atmosphere.

From there, outfitted in the sombre colours of the Unsullied or in flowing robes ranging from baby blue to mustard yellow, they head on foot to Osuna's bullring.

Writing about the "deliberately sombre" colours of Nevermore, Gauguin observed that "sadness is my key", which will be news to anyone who associates him with chromatic heat and hedonism.

There is a hint of it in the apparent artlessness of Japanese flower-arranging; in the wonky teacups that are prized for tea ceremony; and in the sombre colours and weathered old stones of Japanese garden design.