Sentence examples for thinly painted from inspiring English sources

The technique proves to be a powerful imaging tool in the study of thinly painted layers as found in 16th century and earlier paintings [49, 50].

Dumas' thinly painted portraits, all based on photographs, invoke relationships, separations, losses, yearnings and death.

Many signs of such "repentances," or pentimenti, are found among the thinly painted Dutch panels of the 17th century.

Yet the surrounding rocks, grass and recoiling tree are thinly painted, almost like a colored-in drawing.

In the 1920s he painted the works for which he is best known, the delicately toned, thinly painted, but poetically bitter and ironic studies of women, usually prostitutes.

The thickly painted turquoise circles of "May Day" all but congeal around an orange center; behind them a thinly painted ground of searing greens holds firm.

The work is half-length, painted thinly and limited to black and white.

The panels are 11 inches square, painted thinly in acrylic, with simple, mostly geometric shapes.

Thinly yet sensuously painted, the pictures glow like watercolors, and they call to mind artists like Bonnard and Alex Katz.

Each squarish medium-size canvas offers a flat, thinly but sensuously painted patchwork of richly hued interlocking shapes: trapezoids, triangles and parallelograms as well as ellipses, pie shapes, half-moons and biomorphic blobs.

And "Popol-vuh," an all-dark thinly-to-thickly painted still life, also shows promise.