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Example sentences for "colourist"

Lexicographically close words:
coloure; coloured; colourful; colouring; colourings; colourists; colourless; colourman; colours; colpa
  1. This husband was Agostino Beltrano, her fellow scholar in the school of Massimo, where he became a good fresco painter, and a colourist in oil of no common merit, as is proved by many cabinet pictures and some altarpieces.

  2. Niccolo Rossi of Naples became a good designer and colourist in the style of his master, although somewhat too red in his tints.

  3. Lastly, from the studio of Albani issued Andrea Sacchi, after its chief the best colourist of the Roman School, and one of the most celebrated in design, in the practice of which he continued until his death.

  4. Not every colourist would make a glass designer.

  5. But without experience in glass the judgment even of a colourist will often be at fault.

  6. In the hands of a colourist it would be certain to do so.

  7. His analysis is useful as well as interesting; but absolute definition of the effect of radiation is possible only with regard to a rigidly fixed range of colours to which no colourist would ever confine himself.

  8. A colourist objects to it, because it is impossible to get in it the depth and richness of strong pot-metal, or the brilliancy of the more delicate shades of self-coloured material.

  9. Van Thulden may not have been a colourist of his master's stamp, but Peter Paul Rubens himself could not have made a complete success of those windows in the Chapel of Our Lady in S.

  10. Elsewhere the story-teller speaks, or the draughtsman, here the colourist confesses himself.

  11. The gradations of colour in the various shadows belonging to various lights exhibit form, and therefore no one but a colourist can ever draw forms perfectly (see "Modern Painters," vol.

  12. Of course, as a colourist and master of light and shade, he is all powerful; but I allude, at present, to the mere conception and embodying of his subjects on this head.

  13. How far Rembrandt was indebted for his principles of colour to the works of Titian, it is impossible to say; but many of his pictures bear a greater affinity to the last style of this great colourist than to any other painter.

  14. Leighton's genius as a colourist will probably be ever more and more appreciated as a partial allegiance to those three great colourists subsides as a fashion merely.

  15. For the painter of the future will have to be a colourist such as has never yet been seen.

  16. When he would, Corot was a colourist of the first order.

  17. Zaccaria at Venice--Madonna enthroned with Saints--where the skill of the colourist may be said to culminate in unsurpassable perfection.

  18. While equal as a colourist to Bellini, though in a different and more sensuous region, Giorgione, by the variety and inventiveness of his conception, proved himself a painter of the calibre of Titian.

  19. As a colourist he went further and produced more beautiful effects than any Florentine before him.

  20. Without attempting to limit the colourist to any theory whereby his ideas might be restricted, I must say that Skidmore's colouring of the metals is very good.

  21. Let not any painter who would be a colourist deceive himself into the belief that the most vivid and unmixed colours are the best for his art, nor that even they are the truest to nature, in whatever sense he may take the word nature.

  22. Phillips was more successful as a portrait painter: his likenesses are faithful, his pictures free from faults, and possess a pleasant tone, though as a colourist he does not occupy a high place.

  23. As a colourist few English painters have rivalled him, and as a painter of flesh he stands high.

  24. Holbein's wonderful power as a colourist and the fidelity of his likenesses exercised a lasting effect on English art.

  25. Words and Colour A man cannot be a great colourist unless he is a great deal more.

  26. The colourist will insist by preference on the coloured half, the man who has no liking for colour, however much else he may sacrifice, will not be careful to preserve this and, as a natural consequence, he will not preserve it.

  27. A great colourist is no better than a great wordist unless the colour is well applied to a subject which at any rate is not repellent.

  28. Although an excellent draughtsman and etcher, it was as a colourist that he chiefly excelled.

  29. Boudin is a learned colourist of grey tones.

  30. As to the engraver FĂ©lix Buhot, he was a rather delicate colourist in black and white; his Paris scenes will always be considered charming works.

  31. How far he excelled as a colourist in his draperies, formed in the taste of the best Venetians, in his landscape, and in his accessories, will sufficiently appear on beholding his S.

  32. A Batista Chiappe of Novi, who had spent much time in Rome in drawing, and had become a good colourist in Milan, gave great promise of excellence.

  33. The other great colourist and scholar of Sorri was Bernardo Strozzi, better known under the name of the Capuchin of Genoa, from his professing that order.

  34. A still more constant resident there was Tommaso Laureti, a Sicilian, a pupil, according to Vasari, of Sebastian del Piombo, and assuredly a more powerful colourist than most of his age.

  35. Still, embroidery affords such scope for gradation of colour, not, practically, to be got by any process of weaving, that a colourist may well revel in the delights of colour which silks of various dyes allow.

  36. And so long as colour is the end in view there is not much danger that a colourist will go wrong.

  37. His own mental equipment prevented creation, and his clearly set limits as a translator added power to his ability and function as a colourist and word-artist.

  38. He was a reflector only,--plus a colourist--but a colourist of unrivalled excellence and power.

  39. Do you perceive that Rembrandt has occupied himself for a moment with the varied physiognomy of this red, its nature or substance, as a true colourist would not have failed to do?

  40. Now, and it is here that Rembrandt begins to show himself, for a colourist there is no light in the abstract.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colourist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.