Despite the perfume of fecund, organic life that these paintings exude, they are the result of studious, cut-and-paste calculation.

His paintings exude wit and warmth.

Ms. Meyer's loosely gridded, confidently improvised paintings exude a fine summery light.

At the start of the show, the paintings exude a sophisticated art historical consciousness filtered through Manet's lush, caressing brushwork.

His paintings exude expressive emotion and are executed with quintessential German exactitude.

Her paintings in particular - dense, two-toned, organic compositions of dirty, congealed enamel - exude a gnarly dissonance (Johnson).

Titled "Mother of God," this painting exudes an antique, pre-cartographic charm and a non-Western mysticism, but it also hints at global ambition.

Like the drawings, the paintings exude an intense, nervous energy, a kind of architectural presence and a powerful light.

They could, but don't, seem gimmicky; subtly tinted or brightly accented, the paintings are formally lively and exude a primitivistic magic (Johnson).

Leon Golub's 1986 painting of two elderly black women with a nasty man in cowboy boots still exudes an appalling beauty (Johnson).