Sentence examples for striking canvas from inspiring English sources

The exuberant paintings on the walls are the work of Mr. Rodrigues; one striking canvas shows a white-coated Madeiran produce vendor presiding over an abundance of pomegranates.

More than 50 years after Jean-Dominique-Auguste Ingres first painted an image of Oedipus and the Sphinx, he revisited the myth in a striking canvas.

Further attractions include a striking canvas by Lucas Cranach the Elder of the Roman heroine Lucretia and a fair number of religious paintings and still-lifes; the final session broadens to include nineteenth-century art, with several lots from the Forbes collection.

The composition of the striking canvas Haida runs along a lattice of orange on mustard layered over with variegated green.

Fisk sought court permission in late 2005 to sell two works from the collection — "Radiator Building — Night, New York," a striking Precisionist canvas from 1927, by O'Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley's "Painting No. 3" — to boost the university's sagging endowment.

Convinced that medicine represented one of the greatest achievements of 19th-century America, he set out to precisely capture on canvas the striking advances then being made.

They range from painting on canvas — there's a striking portrait by Wilfredo Lam, sometimes called the Cuban Picasso — to several pieces made of starfish strung together by María Fernanda Cardozo, who was born in Colombia.

In 1804, urged by Benjamin West to paint "something large and striking," he finished a life-size canvas titled "The Liboya Serpent Seizing His Prey" for submission to the Academy's annual show.

But Bisping, known for his unorthodox head movement and striking, absorbed the early strikes before landing a spectacular hook to send Rockhold to the canvas.

The white, undulating plates serve as the canvas for the chef's striking handiwork.

This is the first time in UK film that the hoodie gang, practised in petty crime, rather than snazzy gangsterism or striking violence, has been treated like big canvas outlaw antiheroes.