The hand-woven trays have subtle paint finishes, like reddish ochre (above, 29 inches square, $400).
The lacquered look is by no means dominant on the catwalks this season, where lanky "pool hair" and subtle paint prevail.
But now, in Somerset House, the treasures have been set in gorgeous architectural splendour, hung in palatial rooms of intricate decor, with rich and subtle paint colours on the walls, and the fountains playing outside in the elegant space of the paved courtyard.
In 2012, Obama won over many working-class voters in the Midwest and elsewhere by reminding them that he had saved the automobile industry and, through strokes broad and subtle, by painting Mitt Romney as the heartless boss who would have handed out the pink slips.
And of course the orchestral writing touches on all these qualities, with subtle tone painting (the bass rumbling that evokes "Hell's domain" and "Satan's fury" in the tenor aria in Cantata No. 40, for example) occasionally breaking through a more generalized, celebratory use of string, horn, oboe and continuo coloration, not to mention the vibrant trumpet writing in Cantata No. 110.
Also brought out in October will be more fragile pieces, like an extremely thin porcelain plate with a subtle landscape painted on it with enamel.
The way that you move from the light to the dark flesh is achieved with incredibly subtle, graded paint that would have taken a long time to put on.
He would never really recover from its damage, and Ms Macdonald, with subtle thoughtfulness, paints his struggle to "man" Gos the term for schooling a hawk as a struggle with himself, with his violent sexual urges, his bitterness against the world.
This fusion of history and modern spatial organisation has given the Tate a much more relaxed gravitas: the subtle new paint colours, terrazzo flooring, and joinery are all based on the original palette of materials specified by Sidney Smith, who designed the original building in 1892.
