Sentence examples for startling art from inspiring English sources

It was one of the most startling art heists in history, but the emotions it still arouses go beyond that.

The scenes veer from Food Channel shtick to Pier Paolo Pasolini-style degradation and include at least two startling art historical references.

And surely one of the most startling art historical sights in all of New York right now is on offer at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery: Vladimir Tatlin's wacky, visionary "Monument to the Third International" — one of early Modernism's most ambitious and best-known works of unrealized architecture, as embodied by one of its biggest architectural models.

It seems noteworthy that Robert Rosenblum's startling "1900: Art at the Crossroads," a revisionist juxtaposition of modernist and academic painting, opened at the Guggenheim Museum exactly 10 years ago this fall.

Moebius, who was trained in graphic design, created the startling Pop Art cover for Musik von Harmonia, along with several other compelling album covers for Cluster and his various collaborations.

Cinema audiences have recently experienced Joaquin Phoenix's hip-hop career in I'm Still Here, and the startling pop art works of "Mr Brainwash" in Banksy's tongue-in-cheek film Exit Through the Gift Shop, so can be forgiven for scepticism.

Much of Startlings cover art was painted by Earle K. Bergey, who became strongly associated with the magazine, painting almost every cover between 1940 and 1952.

"Spain has produced some of the most startling and original art ever created... the art we need to know about, because it holds the key to understanding all of Europe and its culture," says Andrew Gratam-Dixon athehe start of his three-programme, thousand-year journey for BBC Four, The Art of Spain, which begins tonight.

It's worth unpacking the album's startling Ryan McGinley cover art.

Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark is a startling piece: pageant, art installation, museum guide and dream sequence rolled into one.

Currin's fantasies of winsome, sexy sylphs and his satiric faux portraits of haplessly neurotic contemporary men and women provide startling encounters with art history.