Esteemed for linear mastery and coloristic subtlety. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's comparative arts through the ages] Reference
For Schoenberg, harmony was not just coloristic: it was structural. From Wordnik.com. [Individualism Contest] Reference
And all these just small touches that makes such a huge coloristic difference. From Wordnik.com. ['Scheherazade,' 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony] Reference
The musical settings range from accessible and direct to atonal, abstract and highly coloristic. From Wordnik.com. [It's a Still Life That Runs Deep] Reference
The result is a perilous, constantly changing equilibrium that is at once coloristic and structural. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
It was the mental equivalent of thinking in fully formed pictures, complete to coloristic shadings and fine detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
Page 580, Volume 2 official Salon under government auspices, could have kept the coloristic tradition so long in subjection. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
But his painting, replete though it be with the defects of his qualities, stands as a precursor of the great coloristic school of which. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Sometimes the orchestra is almost too rich for Moreto's playful subject, but this is also quite modern, and besides it offers coloristic surprises very rare in comic operas. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Thus the biggest surprise of "Picasso: Mosqueteros" is its evidence of a coloristic metamorphosis that overtook the monochromatically inclined master in his supposed dotage. From Wordnik.com. [The Late Show] Reference
Yet he also recalls that Delacroix was irritated by those who saw in him only his coloristic traits, and proclaimed that technique should always be subordinated to the concept. From Wordnik.com. ['The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange] Reference
"It is a genius idea," says Ms. Mutter during an interview at a hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, clearly relishing the exclusivity given to her instrument's coloristic voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Reigning Diva of the Violin Embraces Contemporary Music] Reference
Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Eug��nie Bauer.] Reference
He also knocked off the considerable technical challenges in the Britten work, as well as in the vividly coloristic Five Pieces on Folk Themes by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze. From Wordnik.com. [Amit Peled strikes a romantic mood] Reference
The wine-red field appears to bring intense coloristic pressure to bear on the central motif; and this pressure seems both to account for its ellipsoid shape as well as for its suspension at the heart of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
This happened around 1865 when the venerable tradition of coloristic painting, long practiced by the followers of Rubens but recently out of fashion through the hostility of David and Ingres, was revived by a new generation of colorists. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
Now with the support of the European boutique label Winter & Winter, Mr. Motian has the chance to demonstrate that his coloristic, intuitive and resolutely not-on-the-beat approach to percussion suits a fairly astonishing range of musics. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Motian Sans Piano] Reference
Such a coloristic attitude is not satisfied until the vista into the next apartment is made attractive. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
"Totally apart of coloristic considerations in the article, much of us have admired Hugh's surroundings ...". From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
And the red, white, and blue of the grand finale did not really have the coloristic punch that one hoped for. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
© Julien Jordes / ECM Records. and coloristic range, are unfailingly visceral, moving, and thought-provoking. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Likewise, coloristic art must establish a scale, measure its intervals, and name its qualities in unmistakable fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
It's a grand collage that somehow manages not to reveal its seams thanks to Meyer's mastery of tonal shifts and coloristic contrasts and jumps. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Master orchestrators like Strauss, Ravel and Rachmaninoff have used it for coloristic purposes, and a number of composers have featured it as a solo instrument. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Red Bull Music Academy] Reference
Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Galante-himself a composer-had first heard of Haas 'work by word-of-mouth a few years ago and was instantly captivated by what he called the "coloristic imagination" of his works. From Wordnik.com. [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference
The portraits are no less intense in their gravity and despair, but the paradox of these paintings is that they are also light-filled, radically coloristic, and inexplicably funny. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pigments are, and will in all probability continue to be, the practical agents of coloristic productions, however reluctant the scientist may be to accept them as the basis of a color system. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
Roughly 17 minutes long, it's a thrilling whirlwind of coloristic effects, scored for a chamber-size ensemble that allows both soloist and orchestra to come through clearly, without the usual competition for sonic space. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
And she expanded her coloristic palette considerably as the work unfolded, moving seamlessly between sweet-toned lyricism, menacingly dark timbres and a gritty, textured sound that gave the solo line an unusual urgency and even, at times, fierceness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Pianist George Peachey was a responsive accompanist, though the pathos of the Finnish songs called for a larger instrument’s coloristic resources. From Wordnik.com. [In performance: Meri Siirala] Reference
Mosaic I found myself focused on a gentler emotional thing, and the coloristic thing ... the need to connect more now with my more sensitive side ― the natural yin and yang. ". From Wordnik.com. Reference
(45) Instead of cramping his outlook upon nature, it widens his grasp of color, and stores the memory with finer differences, supplying more material by which to express his sense of coloristic beauty. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
A coloristic or a linear unity. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
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