Given the complexity of tooth color, the variations of shade within each tooth, and translucency, it is difficult to view only one small area and select a shade match for restorations.
They are pure explorations of translucency, motion, shape and color.
"Even on a dark day you get a wonderful sense of translucency," she says.
"Here we see the Italians exploiting the ideas of translucency and opacity in art glass".
Mr. Betsky believes in sprawl as the physical manifestation of modernity and also advocates the sensuality of translucency.
He has striven for what he calls "a feeling of translucency" in the stone; he has placed trees inside some columns.
"The ware is characterized by the dense paste of its porcelain body and a high degree of translucency," Ms. Chang writes in the exhibition catalog.
Accompanied by the hypnotic sound of New Age-like music, this scene plays over and over in varying degrees of translucency.
More recently, the Cultural and Congress Centre (1999), right beside the lake at Lucerne in Switzerland, shows this master of translucency at his best.
However, even in those cases it still retains some level of translucency.
