Word: swirl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power overcoming the drag of that churning air, but not until modern planes moved up toward jet speeds did the drag demand a remedy. Slow planes can live with their own slight turbulence; a fast ship becomes a fuel-gulping monster as it fights the furious air waves that swirl and eddy over its wings...
...croquet or a scene in Central Park with such feathery charm that these common, everyday scenes hardly seemed to come from reality. He painted innumerable nudes in all sorts of settings, and they all look as if he had made up the anatomy as he went along; sometimes they swirl about like leaves in the wind. Beach scenes, forests, Biblical stories, murders and imaginary wars poured from Eilshemius' brush -some repugnant, some enormously appealing, like the man himself...
...voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only two paddles as props, the players sway and dip with uncannily precise imprecision, lyrically evoking a sampan bobbing on the water...
...vibrant rhythms of his brush linked him to the swirling style of art nouveau, but what in that art was precious and affected became in Munch a swirl of passion, often equal to that of Van Gogh. One of his first major paintings, inspired by the death of a sister, was called The Sick Child, and all his life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have...
...also learned, and taught other artists, how to impress the forms of textiles and other materials upon the plate to provide textural effects. He devised techniques for softening outlines, reproducing the fluffiness of a cloud, the delicacy of a veil, a swirl of movement as in his Tarantella. His discoveries and inventions opened up what was virtually a new realm of art: he showed that etching need not be merely a method of reproducing a drawing but an independent art form in itself, capable of effects that brushes or crayons could not achieve...