Sentence examples for yellow ground from inspiring English sources

Standing figures are partially effaced by a pervasive yellow ground.

They were painted with the features rendered in blue, red, and green against a yellow ground.

The yellow ground of each is divided by black lines that wall off roomlike spaces.

Even Fernand Léger's weak "Composition on Red and Yellow Ground" of 1934 managed to fetch $806,500, albeit on a single bid from the room.

The lyricism of the intense yellow ground sprayed with pearl gray blobs contrasts with the blackness gathering over the dancer's head.

The verte palette that uses a yellow ground is famille jaune; the palette that uses a rich greenish black ground is famille noire.

Another nude, drawn on mustard-yellow ground, turns up in a fresco Bronzino created in the 1540s for the private chapel of the Medici duchess Eleonora of Toledo.

We are used to jars of the bright-yellow ground stuff, with its earthy flavour, but fresh turmeric is also starting to make regular appearances on our shelves.

The outstanding size of each piece is arresting, but it is color that delivers the punch: fat pink peonies wreathed in leaves of a succulent green against a daffodil-yellow ground.

Korea figures less often in the show, but when it does, as in a set of stacked clothing chests covered with images of birds and blossoms on a goldenrod-yellow ground, you stop and look.

In the sequential hues of "Mexico Set" (1985), for instance, a lemon-yellow ground surfaces merrily here and there from behind a dribbly, translucent splotch of green, next to a panel of dense black, flanked by one of radiant pink.