Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

The children he painted were almost always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes -- including several self-portraits -- were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic.

Also, he often painted scenes of historical and biblical subjects, set in atmospheric landscapes.

His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries.

* The use of color by the Impressionists relied on new theories they developed, such as having shadows painted with the reflected light of surrounding, and often unseen, objects.

Later hagiographers often painted a picture of Ephrem as an extreme ascetic, but the internal evidence of his authentic writings show him to have had a very active role, both within his church community and through witness to those outside of it.

Simpler inlays are often made of plastic or painted.

Chicken buses, recycled and often colorfully painted former US school buses, are popular within cities and for short-distance trips.

Starting in 2010, all taxis must be painted yellow, a regulation designed to protect consumers and to distinguish the vehicles from others that are often used in committing crimes.

Colored glass is often used, though sometimes the glass is painted, innumerable examples exist of the use of stained glass.

They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting.

They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors.

A group of young realists, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, who had studied under Charles Gleyre, became friends and often painted together.

The sometimes detailed artwork were often painted over within hours or days.

Surface-bonding cement is often pre-coloured and can be stained or painted thus resulting in a finished stucco-like surface.

Much honour was given to him in Germany, many buildings have his name, books about him were best-sellers, and he was often painted, e. g., by Franz von Lenbach and C. W.

Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.

Most ( but not all ) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted " Blasi Blue ", whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted " Terracotta " ( often mistakenly called " Chinese Red " or orange ; the actual name of the color on the paint cans was Terracotta ).

The earliest signs were often not painted but consisted, for example, of paraphernalia connected with the brewing process such as bunches of hops or brewing implements, which were suspended above the door of the pub.

Some punks wear tight " drainpipe " jeans, plaid / tartan trousers, kilts or skirts, T-shirts, leather jackets ( which are often decorated with painted band logos, pins and buttons, and metal studs or spikes ), and footwear such as Converse sneakers, skate shoes, brothel creepers, or Dr. Martens boots.

Sextants for tropical use are often painted white to reflect sunlight and remain relatively cool.

In his later years, Gainsborough often painted relatively simple, ordinary landscapes.

No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow.

It was a difficult shoot for Campbell who had to learn elaborate choreography for the battle scenes, which involved him remembering a number system because the actor was often fighting opponents that were not really there.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

He not only made the difficult transition from silent cinema to sound cinema, but thrived there, proving himself to be a ' actor's director ': listening to his actors ', respecting their instincts, and often incorporating their suggestions into scenes.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

This sometimes means a happier ending or less ambiguity, or excluding scenes that would give a higher age limit, but more often means that the film is simply shortened to provide more screenings per day.

The most common form of director's cut is therefore to have extra scenes added, often making the " new " film considerably longer than the " original ".

In addition, scenes in mysteries and the like often wish to obscure the setting and its participants and thus avoid clarifying them with an establishing shot.

Many bear inscriptions naming the persons depicted in the scenes, for which reason they are often called picture bilinguals.

The engravings, mainly cameo, but sometimes intaglio, depict scarabs at first and then scenes from Greek mythology, often with heroic personages called out in Etruscan.

Such compartmentalization is often used in early Central Indian painting to depict multiple spaces or scenes on a single flat

Francis Bacon often gathered with the men at Gray's Inn to discuss politics and philosophy, and to try out various theatrical scenes that he admitted writing.

They often feature scenes that startle the viewer, and the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes.

These often opened with the show's main title logo within the teaser scene ; from season four onward, the show began using an anthropomorphic version of the logo in the opening scenes, using various animations.

They often depicted mythological creatures, domestic scenes, labor scenes, or palatial scenes filled with officials at court.

Although high level of stylization, mystical appeal, and surreal elegance were often preferred over realism ( such as in shan shui style ), beginning with the medieval Song Dynasty there were many Chinese painters then and afterwards who depicted scenes of nature that were vividly real.

In the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Palace, allegories and historical scenes are mixed together, and the Raphael Cartoons show scenes from the Gospels, all in the Grand Manner that from the High Renaissance became associated with, and often expected in, history painting.

Classical history remained popular, but scenes from national histories were often the best-received.