decorativeness

Her latest works impress one by their daring decorativeness of form.

The decorativeness gives way to an aggressiveness that defines the difference between 1990 and 1912.

The paintings from 1987 are full of charming facility, but their decorativeness is repetitive.

The second painting titled "Tree" best conveys the mystic decorativeness that seems to be the artist's goal.

Decorativeness is a tradition in American painting, and it has produced mediocre art and also great art.

His style sits between a kind of modern decorativeness and mid-century expressionism post Boyd et al.

The images seem meant to be archetypal, but formulaic decorativeness limits their metaphorical resonance (Johnson).

But the language is bold, forthright and backed by the color, scale and declarative decorativeness of the painting's design.

In many of these works, his contemplative focus dissipated into a mild decorativeness reminiscent of his early work.

Impeccably made, they have about them a bracing, didactic decorativeness that delivers pleasure and instruction in equal amounts.

Near the end of the third decade, the seccessionistic decorativeness is replaced by constructivistic influence.

Padauks are valued for their toughness, stability in use, and decorativeness, most having a reddish wood.

Count Mr. Varnedoe among those who find the new decorativeness a sign of uncomplicated optimism.

I can't remember a starker painting by this artist, one in which the too-easy decorativeness that sometimes marred his earlier work drops so completely away.

Drevin's paintings intentionally were empty of illusionism and decorativeness.

The decorativeness of the outer walls of the main shrine and its closed hall exemplify Chalukyan art.

The decor, at first glance, seems to dilute into decorativeness the substantiveness of the avant-garde paintings of the time.

Then she turned her argument upside down, praising a trifle called A Summer Story precisely because of its cynical, empty decorativeness.

The feathery leaves and bright yellow flowers are worth growing for their decorativeness alone and, being an annual, they soon pay for their place.

"For warmth, for cleanliness, for protection, for decorativeness.

But sometimes, for Vuillard, decorativeness is a source, not of creativity, but of disintegration and dis-ease.

The movement has sometimes been referred to as "P&D" or as The New Decorativeness.

They form an inverted forest of bright handmade stuffed forms, which - their Miroesque decorativeness aside - refer to the body's internal organs and systems.

If you look closely, the princess archetype is not about passivity and decorativeness: It is about power and the recognition of the true self.

It refers to both a quality and a condition of decorativeness, inherent in individual objects or evoked by the way objects are arranged within an architectural setting.