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For Pinault, the silver brush strokes evoke mountains, and he sees the painting as a meditation.
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He argues that investors should be wary of broad brush strokes that tout value while discounting growth.
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Mr Thackara has Tolstoy's talent for painting the grand with small brush strokes.
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Foliage, tree trunks and verdant meadow are stippled with tiny brush strokes.
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Given a choice between an exhibit of German Expressionist paintings and a hike up some soul-stirring hill, I'll take the thick brush strokes and green faces every time.
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The cost drops 30% on a Mediterranean hand-painted dinner plate if you get a painter to use a sponge cut in the shape of a leaf instead of laboring over brush strokes.
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His first attempts emulated Canaletto's controlled brush strokes.
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The hieroglyphic qualities and broad brush strokes of two of his masterpieces, "Ancient Script Mandala" (1968) and "Frolicking Birds and Beasts in Yin Script" (1969), are clearly influenced by the more primitive scripts found in bronze castings.
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In every room there is a sense of serenity, whether the children are practicing brush strokes for calligraphy, tumbling around in judo or gliding their little fingers over the harmounia, a type of piano used in music class.
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Henri's disciples were known collectively as the Ashcan School, partly because of the lowlife subjects they painted, but also because of the gritty, expressive handling of paint, which you can see in the swift brush strokes of "Forty-two Kids, " and Bellows's famous painting of an illicit prizefight, "Stag at Sharkey's" (1909).
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His figures were roughly a centimetre tall, most made with two deliberate strokes of the brush, and allowed to fade away as his paint ran out, like the trailing tail of a comet.
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