light-struck

Not dark but wildly light-struck, these are so vastly overexposed as to become images of light that has just about burned up the land.

Ham- mer's eyes were like light-struck diamonds, never dull-never quite the same.

It is porous enough for paint to soak deeply in and provides a lustrous, light-struck surface.

But it's the richly worked textures and lustrous, light-struck play of colors that really bring these paintings alive.

A departure is that he has adopted anodized aluminum for his support rather than canvas or paper, providing a lustrous, light-struck surface.

Others are complex, like one in which light-struck white circles and rectangles mingle with more shadowy ones on a ground bisected by two diagonal lines.

Approaching abstraction, it depicts a lone female figure in a small sailboat surrounded by a light-struck bluish mix of water and haze.

I stood under the stoop light in the big, swooping shadows of the light-struck moths, picking through my keys until I found the one I wanted.

Exposure to light hardened the asphalt/bitumen and made it insoluble, so that when it was subsequently rinsed with a solvent only the sufficiently light-struck areas remained.

Since her subject doesn't change, you may focus on paint application, the Cezannesque patchwork that reads both as light-struck sculptural illusion and sensuously mottled, subtly multihued surface.

With their subtle tonalities and expressive printing, these pictures suggest updated versions of the light-struck images by Baron Adolph de Meyer, the turn-of-the-century Pictorialist.

She rode under the Vacaresti Arch and up the Boulevard of Martyrs, past white cliffs of public buildings, light-struck hills of palaces and apartment blocks.

Flesh and bone structure are painted with small strokes of fluid paint that offer a successful illusion of light-struck form, and at the same time the artist's self-depiction suggests emotional vulnerability.

Completely gorgeous, with its comely Buddhas and paintings in light-struck gold, it is also a reconnaissance mission-in-progress to the past, with scholars clearing the path just a few steps ahead of you all the way.

As always, he wanted to depict the effects by minimal but powerful means, and so he chose shiny metal surfaces that he artfully cut, slashed and pierced to give a semblance of the light-struck buildings.

His lively, light-struck "Spectral Gateway," a pair of panels incorporated into the exhibition's entrance doors, is made of sheets of glass fused with colored rectangles that evoke for me windows by Frank Lloyd Wright.

In light-struck images of flowers in vases, silver heirlooms, women's gloves, shoes and jewelry and, in one notably charming case, a little black bulldog sleeping by the hearth, Sir William most richly developed the marriage of paint and illusion.

Hansen fired into the opening, but Ruby was fading and merging with Diamond, spiraling down an icy black helix with nothing at all at the bottom. . . . Chapter Thirty-two Hansen's boots clashed on the floor of the light-struck hall.

It is amply stocked, maybe a tad too amply, with the lyrical, light-struck abstractions in the "Ocean Park" series that preoccupied him from 1967 to the end of his career, and that took him from the provincial status of "California" painter to international recognition.

A 19th-century English painter named Jessica Hayllar, for example, whose paperback-size still life of a silver sugar bowl and a plate holding a spoon covered with red raspberry jam approaches Chardin for magical, light-struck realism: it is only $19,500 at the Maas Gallery booth.

The white heart of the planet blazed up at him- And was gone in weltering images of ice and beasts and huge red sun, which ended in a view of a light-struck hall infinitely greater than the one from which he'd been plucked a timeless moment before.

His light-struck canvases, surfaces covered with tiny wriggling strokes of luminous colors laid on a solid ground, are exemplified here by "Untitled" (1970), in which all-over marks of yellow, magenta and off-white animate a pale lavender undercoat to give the effect of a first-class summer day.

Ms. Dodd's two exhibitions of small panel paintings - rural landscapes at Alexandre Gallery and outdoor nudes at the New York Studio School - bring two forms of life infectiously together: that of the airy, color- and light-struck world and that of brusquely sensuous paint.

Brought together here, their paintings from the 1960's and 70's make an arresting combo: Delaney's light-struck canvases, covered with tiny wriggling strokes of luminous colors laid on a solid ground; Lewis's fields of glowing color invaded by ghostly calligraphic forms, Thomas's broken lines of rich color arranged in geometric patterns.