Sentence examples for stark works from inspiring English sources

Looking at people who are looking at Minimalist art is always fun, of course, and as visitors began to fill the Guggenheim's curving ramps you could almost see many of them becoming self-conscious as they stared at stark works like Robert Rauschenberg's 1951 "White Painting," an all-white canvas that relies on the shadows of the viewer for part of its effect.

Currently on view in two large galleries, stark works in sand colors, geometrics, in brown felt material, in bright neon, the exhibition displays art from the collection of Bridgehampton resident Leonard Ruggio, whose passion is minimalism, a midcentury movement that challenges our notions of the types of materials can be used in art, and in fact our traditional notions of beauty.

The resulting skeletal image, suggesting a broken collarbone, resembled a stark work of modern art.

"We have this very earthy, stark, working container port, then Hoffmann's fantasies and obsessions," she said.

He depicted the ordeal in his chillingly stark work "S.A.C.R.E.D".

Starker works, even from the same period, include "Landscape With Circle and Double Cross" (1978), a perfect circle and a bar with two short cross lines laid on a yellow ground, partly closed in at bottom and side by short, free-hand brown bars as landscape elements.

After the war, Mr. Starker worked as an electrician and a sulfur miner before making his way to Paris.

His archival photos are just as stark: Weegee works the couture.

Over a four-decade career, the Bay Area-based artist was known for a diverse range of stark abstract works that included paintings, collages and monumental wall sculpture.

Rose Gill Hearn, the new Department of Investigation commissioner, said she and Commissioner Stark would work together in an effort to reform the way the assessors work to prevent similar corruption in the future.

And our status of debtors leaves us with a stark choice: work, or face destitution.