Caravaggio's art entailed stark settings and gloomy lighting.
She seems to have stumbled into a rest room, white tiled walls, door locked behind her, and the light switch triggering a fierce overhead fan that blows freezing antiseptic air: the stark settings to which, on a weekday at 10 A.M., emergency brings us.
This production in English was directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Bernard Haitink; it was criticised both for its stark settings and for ruining the Act II entrance of Vašek.
Len Fury's sleek assemblages are an obvious example, juxtaposing imagery of eggs, eyes, disembodied limbs, shovels and other familiar Surrealist props against stark architectural settings.
Mr. Lee's "Hulk," which opened Friday, is surprisingly true to the character's comic book history, ranging from the stark desert settings of the earliest Hulk comics, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962, to the grim melodramatic scenes of the character's childhood, introduced by the writer Peter David in the late 1980's.
Keenlyside's Britten cycle, meanwhile – the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake – showed him to be a fiercely eloquent exponent of the poet's independent spirit as presented in these stark and probing settings.
It features the ultrabright colors, stark graphics, Japanese settings and signs, and eclectic drawing styles that are the hallmarks of anime, as well as an excellent pop theme song by Beat Crusaders.
His lavish costumes, echoing Oriental styles in their bright colorings and flowing drapery, are in contrast to the stark, minimalist stage settings that consist primarily of organized empty space.
By attaching java moss to deadwood branches, Azuma constructs bonsai plants that thrive underwater, encapsulating them in stark fish tank settings.
In stark contrast to settings with strongly anthropophagic vectors [ 2], LLINs and IRS have far less impact upon malaria transmission by highly zoophagic mosquitoes simply because human blood is of negligible importance to their survival and reproduction [ 12].
In these the settings are stark, the figures are delicate Gothic types, and the action, though stilled, is exquisitely expressive.
