Rustic carpentry does not demand great skill in woodworking, but it does require a large amount of artistic perception.
It, however, has drawbacks, the chief of which are that it conducts heat too freely, and has not a very artistic appearance.
Dudley Maltby, Colonel Washburn and Leith were waiting for them, with the pretty bright dory at the foot of the stairs swaying gently on the water, manned by two sailors in fresh, artistic costume.
If he had not loved her before, his artistic soul would have loved her then for the very unconscious grace, the poetical charm of her lovely person.
For all these contrasts between the actual and the ideal, Rembrandt had a perfect vehicle of artistic expression in chiaroscuro.
We may well believe that the artistic nature of Rembrandt was sensitive to the influences of his native Dutch scenery.
It was one of his artisticmethods to paint the same person many times.
His entire artistic career was devoted to this great problem, and we can trace his success through all the great pictures from the Presentation to the Syndics.
All this artistic motive was lost upon those for whom the picture was painted, because of their petty vanity.
On the other hand, his artistic tastes led him into reckless extravagance.
It was the skillful use of light and shadow in the picture, which made a poetic and artisticwork of a subject which another painter might have made very commonplace.
There is one artistic quality in the picture to which we must pay careful attention, as it is particularly characteristic of Rembrandt.
In a proper artistic environment, an environment created by himself, of taste and moderate luxury, she would be exquisite.
Quaint but charmingly artistic decoration prevails in all the chief apartments; some of the panels are emblazoned in colours; everywhere, too, there is the sense of strength and comfort.
No single spot of earth has ever been devoted to illustrations so exquisite of the most beautiful forms of living nature, and of the artistic talent of man than were then brought together.
Cimabue laid the foundation of modern art towards the end of the thirteenth century, and during Mondino's life Giotto, his pupil, raised an artistic structure that is the admiration of all generations of artists since.
His deeply-rooted love of art, too, received a strong stimulus from the splendid architectural and artistic treasures of the old Belgian city.
While few are more worthy of artistic care no metal is more perfectly adaptable to noble use through a range of treatments that cannot be matched by any other metal whatsoever.
Where lead was applied to the vertical or steep planes of dormers or spires the interlocking of the sheets in herring-bone was a practical as well as an artistic expedient.
It should not be so, for each of the metals can give us characteristics that others cannot, and the capabilities of lead have been sufficiently proved by more than two thousand years of artistic manipulation.
Sprudell wished to convey the impression that along with his many other gifts he possessed artistic talent, had he only chosen to develop it.
They did not wish to-day to exhibit themselves and their artistic skill, but desired only to render homage to the music of the great maestro, and to German art.
The most distinguished names of the aristocracy and the artistic circles of Vienna were at the head of the committee of arrangements.
Sharp’s sensations, doings, artistic ideas, and performances were not to be counted by rule and measure.
As to the artistic working out of these typical motives, I gave to the first glow and colour, to the second mystery and weirdness, to the third what dignity and solemnity I could.
Of course this is much more difficult: but if we can do it, so much the more credit to our artistic skill and imaginative insight.
He therefore enclosed a cheque for two hundred pounds, which I was to spend in going to Italy to pursue myartistic studies.
The question is not one of weighty message, but of artistic presentation.
There is really a delightful fraternity here amongst the literary and artistic world.
I can find no language to express my admiration of his supreme gifts, and it is with an almost painful ecstasy that I receive from time to time fresh revelations of his intellectual, spiritual, and artistic splendour.
He and I have been ‘delighting’ over your admirably artistic and charming stories in Harper’s.
In course of ages great skill was acquired in thus using all kinds of flexible materials; artistic baskets were produced of raffia and reeds, and fine garments of linen, wool and cotton.
They may be arranged in an irregular line, or may be placed so as to form artistic groups of twos and threes or fours.
In any case a certain artistic feeling is required in choosing the colors and rightly applying them even in house-painting and wagon decoration.
Let the child employ his artistic and creative abilities in making designs for the rug with paints or crayons.
After all, Audrey was so perfect from an artistic point of view that moral disapproval seemed somehow beside the point.
Her artistic nature was morbidly sensitive to impressions taken in through the eye, and nothing could have so forced home the truth as that little scene, suddenly flashed on her out of the London night.
She had no very clear idea of what it would mean to him; but judging his nature by what she had seen of it, she feared some shock either to his moral system or to his artistic powers.
There were moments when she thought that Katherine's direct unquestioning gaze must have seen what she hid from her own eyes, must have penetrated the more or less artistic disguises without which she would not have known herself.
I don't want you to have another literary craze--I beg your pardon, I mean phase; you seem to have had an artistic one lately.
With a little of her old artistic egoism, Katherine valued her brother's career very much as a thing of her own making, and the idea of another woman meddling with it and spoiling it was insupportable.
But the ideal, the artistic side of him is all but full-grown.
Poetry has been by far our greatestartistic achievement and he is by far our greatest poetic artist.
There is comparatively little of Milton's favourite alliteration: the tone of the passage is too quiet for the free use of an artistic device so instantly visible.
A series of sonnets is an artistic contradiction in terms.
The wealthy, learned, andartistic city of Nürnberg possessed a public wagon which every night was led through the streets, to pick up and convey to their homes drunken burghers found lying in the filth of the streets.
Where he was most handicapped was in carrying on his artistic progress coram populo.
On the whole, these illustrations decidedly pre-suppose real artistic culture in the public.
For the man who said that joy is essentially, regrettably inartistic, admitted in the same breath that misery lends itself to artistic treatment twice as easily as joy, and resumed the whole question in a single phrase.
Frank Saltram's features, for artistic purposes, are verily the anecdotes that are to be gathered.
Mr. Pennell has given us a delightful bit of artistictopography showing the strange beauty of a place that he always loves and remembers.
And the elegant voice of the artistic objector floating behind: "Apres vous le deluge.
The artistic power of producing and recognising evidential testimony of supposed truths is part of the divine birthright of all men.
These seers of visions and dreamers of dreams have not, perhaps, the artistic power by which an attempt could be made to transcribe the vision in a manner legible to the ordinary human understanding.
See Adolf Reichwein, China and Europe: Intellectual and Artistic Contacts in the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1925, which makes apparent the full extent to which modern Europe is indebted to China for the luxuries of its culture.
Reichwein, Adolf; China and Europe: Intellectual and Artistic Contacts in the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1925.
Besides the loss of life, there was lost to the world forever a great store of historic and artistic wealth.
The worship of crosses into which the Spirit or Christ had been inserted by the priest must have satisfied the religious needs of a people who, save in architecture, showed little artistic faculty.
It became less obviously and aggressively a thing of utility; its proportions shrank from the massive to the elegant; its artistic effectiveness was vastly enhanced by its division into an upper and a lower part.
Quite a mistake, I assure you; poison is much more artistic and neat in its work, and to my mind involves less risk.
As a rule moods troubled Stewart Stevenson but little; he was an artist without the artistic temperament.
His artistic abilities were not such a phenomenon, and could be traced back to a sister of Mr. Stevenson's called Lizzie who had sketched in crayons and died young.
He would probably just as soon have been dead as called upon to answer that letter, though it was kindly enough and delicately expressed and full of artistic touches.
No girl could be really artistic if she had not seen the picture galleries.
She did not know that Mrs. Bellamie had really a tender feeling for her, and it was only her artistic nature which prevented her from showing it.
He began to feel that it would be necessary either to check Aubrey's amorous propensities or to divert them into some more artistic channel.
It was not a highly moral proceeding, but it was an artistic one; and Mr. Bellamie was able to forgive anything that was artistic.
Then, without warning, the new artistic receptivity spread to music, and a trial was offered to new men and to new works.
A sparse handful may segregate themselves in an artistic secret society, but this same boyish trait can be found in religion, politics and finance.
It is neither practicable nor desirable that the work of to-day should be pusillanimously referred to the judgement of to-morrow; but an artistic assessment, to have any value, must be the sum of individual and independent opinions.
IV The period of demobilisation, that twelve months' interlude between war and peace, is a convenient time for pausing to take stock of English literary and artistic development since the end of 1914.
The propaganda of a coterie, the direction of critics, the explanations of authors and the herd-voice of literary society narrow artistic sympathy and stunt artistic originality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "artistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
