word painting
Example Sentences
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They assiduously avoid the “I” word, painting the committee’s work as garden-variety oversight.
From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2019
Accredited institutions are invited, even encouraged, to borrow, say, a simple Christopher Wool word painting or a monumentally complex tapestry of woven metal bits by El Anatsui.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2015
With a fellow collector-investor, John Sayegh-Belchatowski, he paid $14.2 million in November for a similar Wool word painting, “Fool,” at Christie’s.
From New York Times • May 13, 2015
Vivid word painting and a dramatic vocal line complemented the surrealist texts, sung with conviction by Ms. Shelton.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2010
Recognizing instinctively that the principal subjects of language are thought and action, as the chief interests of painting are form and color, this writer so keenly alive to natural beauty is guiltless of word painting.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)
