The one-sided composition, the jutting pine tree silhouetted against empty space, the meditating scholar, and the brilliant brush technique of Ma all lent themselves easily to imitation.
She painted some small, glowing still-lifes, and she painted her first and, so far, her only landscape, of a big, leafless tree silhouetted against a wintry sky, which she'd been looking at on her daily runs.
More site-specifically, Peter Gould cleverly redesigned the guard station into a three-dimensional cartoon with a bright green Formica desk top on stacked bricks set off against a small forest of green tree silhouettes.
Everybody, everything -- a drag queen, a tree silhouetted against the sky, a self-portrait, a burned-out house, a pet dog, a contortionist lover, a dead body, light glancing off of water -- is part of one classically beautiful, stunningly sad normality, one life.
Here, a visitor is greeted by large white busts of Buddha, Jesus and Mary, Ganesh and Shiva floating against a dark wall with palm tree silhouettes.
A Russian flag tied to a barricade flutters in the breeze, trees silhouette against a bold red sunset.
Trees silhouetted against inky skies.
One or two black skeletons of trees silhouetted against the menacing sky".
As we headed back to the main channel we slid past ink-black trees silhouetted against an almost black sky.
Just look at the fullness of the sky and those trees silhouetted against it – an effect worthy of Leonardo da Vinci.
