Sentence examples for white ground from inspiring English sources

(MOMA's "White on White," from 1918, a cool white square tilted on a warm white ground, became famous more as a curiosity than as a touchstone).

Black rock, white ground, blue sky — three simple colored shapes.

The most famous, and perhaps oldest, examples have Kufic lettering inscribed in black on white ground.

Or perhaps the glare of the white ground had a mesmerizing effect.

You stay with us an after-image of the colder light on a white ground, dark - on the white ground dark, beside the path, a liberated child.

The white ground filters through, allowing the dense orchestrations of black to breathe.

In some works, such as White Landscape (1934), his imagery is almost completely abstract bare white traces on an off-white ground.

The three grey bands slip over the drawn lines dividing them from the near-white ground.

Its small clutch of low-rise buildings, coloured the brightest red, seem to hum against the snow-white ground.

In a small piece called "Study-Ascetic Series," bent, angled and truncated lines break up an ivory-white ground.

A very large composition dashed off by Pierre Soulages in black strokes of the brush briskly trailed over the off-white ground triggered extraordinary competition.