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"ornamentation" Definitions
  1. the use of objects, designs, etc. to decorate something
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The two gloves in his locker are only for ornamentation.
I always call my tattoos my jewelry — that's my ornamentation.
Architects have always used ornamentation to enliven and inform their work.
We started with the basics, removed ornamentation, and flattened the icon.
"People don't know about this kind of ornamentation anymore," she continued.
She creates images that have clarity without sacrificing ornamentation and joy.
But first, Cersei marked the occasion by piling on the ornamentation.
And for ornamentation, I tried to use things that felt like toys.
"Animals with the best ornamentation were the best males," Dr. Hill said.
Flora, on the other hand, again suffers from her tragic flaw: over-ornamentation.
Gothic elements and monochromatic symmetry recur and the ornamentation can verge on unreadable.
On a much smaller level, this show also emphasizes Wright's interest in ornamentation.
A tension between style and substance pitted ornamentation against speed at the start.
Even with some psychedelic ornamentation, bongs tend not to be works of art.
Art Deco home style is made up of bold colors and elaborate ornamentation.
And his narrative voice is terse and uninflected: crisp, clean, and unfussy, without ornamentation.
Maybe: A tension between style and substance pitted ornamentation against speed at the start.
The Pagoda Theater is another sturdy structure with a pagoda roof and Chinese ornamentation.
Others, like the funerary masks of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, favor ornamentation over physiological accuracy.
Their looming concrete towers, so devoid of ornamentation, remind us of scary Soviet dictators.
After all, the designer is famous for his ornamentation and bold, even aggressive colorways.
We humans have long used body ornamentation to express both individual and collective identity.
But the macroevolutionary effect of head ornamentation on body mass has hardly been explored.
The intricate pediment ornamentation was recreated from stamped zinc, as on the original building.
The featured designers firmly situate their creations through typically feminine forms, shapes, and ornamentation.
Orpheus' vocal lines are typical of the period, with florid ornamentation unfolding within narrow intervals.
His little realm remains classic, permanent, serious: The Joe Allen exterior is devoid of ornamentation.
As his name announces, Killmonger has, well, issues to go with his striking body ornamentation.
The pieces are handsome, functional and devoid of all unnecessary ornamentation — really, all of it.
Ornamentation has long served Jay-Z well, so the lack of glamour here is striking.
I love the perverse idea of rendering a massive ship indecipherable through the most garish ornamentation.
The little lady wasn't there for just ornamentation, she was there to promote the film, too.
I just loved the ... But I even loved all the ornamentation and the architecture of it.
She doesn't have a lot of ornamentation, or even personality, in the way she presents herself.
Contemporary singers often use this vocal ornamentation to show off their skills, to prove their talent.
It features a gold-plated and Swarovski crystal chandelier and gold-leafed ornamentation throughout the home.
In early stages you're making squiggly lines or basic curls, later you're generating ornamentation worthy of Alhambra.
The rooms they use are a curious blend of drab doctor's office decor and New Age ornamentation.
Expressive yet dignified, his phrasing confident and his ornamentation stylishly discreet, he brought tears to my eyes.
The ornamentation proliferates, including dense borders that often compete with, or meld into, the story at hand.
It may be good corporate scenic ornamentation and crowd-pleasing luxury design, but it is not (political) art.
While some, like the labrets, were reserved for the elite, others, like the tooth gems, were popular ornamentation.
The large, locally made brooches were intricate and valuable, with silver designs, probably the ornamentation for aristocratic women.
As expected, Mr. Manze restrained string vibrato and allowed ample melodic ornamentation, even when it proved mildly disruptive.
The objection brought out calls of "shame" within the House of Commons, and some ornamentation on Chope's office door.
"Also the ornamentation we see in Armenian art and music are represented in the generated fractals," explains van Leer.
"We're creating a world in which the story lives, rather than just using audio as ornamentation," Ms. Brown said.
I'm very close friends with the artist Rashaad Newsome, and his work is filled with all of that ornamentation.
Like many Irish singers, she consciously or unconsciously incorporated the highly stylized ornamentation of traditional Celtic "sean nos" singing.
Henry's court is a little world of terror, more Orwellian than antique for all of Mantel's splendid period ornamentation.
It wasn't until the 1950s when prints and 2D ornamentation lace was protected as loosely resembled ink on paper, a.k.a.
His backing band—the multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, the trombonist Dave Nelson, and the percussionist Marlon Patton—added spontaneous ornamentation.
For them, the performance of beauty can be as honest a place of vulnerability as something more conventional without ornamentation.
The current renovation included over 90 different companies attending to details such as the walls' gilded ornamentation and the chandeliers.
" That is, women express "wealth, status, family, tribe" through their bearing and ornamentation, which are "all languages definable as art.
Rowe's team altered the architectural motifs and ornamentation on the roofs and windows to be more in line with Thai sensibilities.
Whiteness is continuously mapped onto her body as one that is severely lacking: in ornamentation, vibrancy, luxury, surgical injection, and implants.
His books are mash-ups of memory, investigation and fictional ornamentation, marked with a fond disrespect for genre — much like life.
They interred their dead there: the bodies of men, women and children of all ages, many with personal items and ornamentation.
You couldn't call the library beautiful, but it rose above Main Street handsome and tall, all planes and angles, lacking ornamentation.
We were fascinated by this openness and tried out everything at our disposal as architects — whether color, space, structure or ornamentation.
Mathilde is a woman born to the "employee" class who is convinced, nonetheless, that she deserves only ornamentation and aristocratic spoils.
A main component of the holiday's ornamentation involved women carving pumpkins, hallowing them out and filling them with nuts and fruits.
The thing my 21st century mind can't get over is the level of detailing and ornamentation to all the knobs and surfaces.
Ms. Fischer often sang with a light shudder in her voice that resembled a blend between Baroque ornamentation and a speech impediment.
It's a marked change from other stations in Rome's subway system that are mostly devoid of ornamentation, when they aren't outright grungy.
If you wanna make a 453-percent raw rock album with no extra ornamentation, Owen Pallett is the last guy you wanna call.
With the inclusion of plastic bits that simulate a metal look, but creak, the HM100s complete the full set of faux ornamentation sins.
The dress also exhibits signs of wear, which means it was used in real life and was not some sort of fancy ornamentation.
Much of this ornamentation was made by Armenian craftsmen, many of whom perished during the 823 genocide, which Turkey has yet to recognize.
With its profuse ornamentation carved from dark wood standing out against the blond, satinwood casing, it's spectacular and, by today's standards, grotesquely overwrought.
Especially outstanding was a rendition of "Georgia on My Mind," in which he used enhanced vibrato and ornamentation to convey a wailing soulfulness.
Likewise, smaller theropods referenced in the study, such as the Maniraptoriformes clade from which birds evolved, were less likely to have cranial ornamentation.
Using an implement he wielded with his stumps, Buchinger excelled in calligraphy, ornamentation, and micrography, the practice of making patterns with tiny letters.
His sculpted ornamentation appears on clocks, vases, sconces, fireplaces and candelabra, with details like furrowed brows on sea gods and intricately serrated swan beaks.
The horizontal "Decumaria" (2018), made of moon gold, oxidized silver and red clay, resembles the austere ornamentation one imagines paneling an ancient Roman temple.
Weissenhof became a kind of world's fair for the architectural aesthetic championed at the Bauhaus: flat roofs, sheer walls, industrial materials, stripped-down ornamentation.
Wright soon began to pare away the exterior ornamentation on his buildings, in keeping with Modernist ideas expressed in projects like Mies's Tugendhat house.
On a recent Sunday, one of them, Jorge Cruz, 39, lifted a 15-pound glove studded with nails and other ornamentation in the air.
Both the countertenor, Jay Carter, and the bass, Dominik Wörner, overloaded their initial arias with ornamentation, then pretty much lost interest in later ones.
Most Pink Sweats songs are spare — the ornamentation comes in the storytelling, which is vivid and direct, communicating a great deal via impressionistic detail.
Compared with Baroque painting in Italy or Flanders, the Mexican version was lighter and less rigid, making use of bright color and free ornamentation.
The innovative artist is back with a program at the Shed in Manhattan, which strips movement from ornamentation and, to a great extent, music.
Spanish moss, tinsel and strands of colored beads drape over trees, street signs, statues, people — anything and anyone not fast enough to escape ornamentation.
While initially struck by the ornamentation on the daggers, Dominy was puzzled by the fact that the daggers were made from two completely different bones.
That might mean using music to reflect the natural rhythm of speech, but also greater flexibility in ornamentation and a certain carelessness with the rhythms.
On Sunday in Park Slope, Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" is paired with a work by Reena Esmail that was influenced by Hindustani ornamentation.
Punching, kicking, and choking aren't polite things to do, but the ornamentation that makes free-for-all fighting into a sustainable sport obscures that true nature.
He went on to lecture me on the difference between design and ornamentation; about finding beauty in the goodness of a product that fulfills its purpose.
The facade lacks any ornamentation, letting the geometry and large planar surfaces evoke a feeling of modernity and express the separate functions of living and working.
In other words, ornamentation could be explained only as a heuristic that animals use to judge a potential mate's fitness — a view that came to dominate.
The metallic ornamentation gets gloopy and discolored in places, which disclose the stencil technique used; they sit precariously between not-quite-abstractions and not-quite-wallpaper.
There are some extreme forms of ornamentation that he thinks don't signal anything, but rather are a result of the kind of process Dr. Prum favors.
In Dothraki tradition, the length and ornamentation of a warrior's braid connote victories; Dany's braids have become more elaborate through the seasons and she conquers more territory.
According to the study, 20 of the 22 largest theropod dinosaur species that left behind well-preserved skulls displayed some form of bony ornamentation on their heads.
That said, "the preliminary findings seem to show that the largest individuals have this bony ornamentation on their heads and small individuals do not," according to Gates.
He said the piece reflected "the increasing disappearance of text as a reliable medium of communication," but also echoed the architectural ornamentation associated with the firm's structures.
A parade of students marched into this strange gray brick of a building, whose arched ornamentation recalls the angle of the thatched roof of a Buddhist temple.
Take away the dancers, the ornamentation, the arched-eyebrow provocation and leave only the pain — a show solely devoted to elegantly rendered bruises might be peak Gaga.
Consisting of only 10 looks designed to be worn by both men and women, the collection eschews the wild over-ornamentation and excess typically associated with Balmain.
A 1753 book on Palmyra by the British classicist Robert Wood included painstaking illustrations of the city's architectural ornamentation, which became a runaway success among British designers.
The release of "FourFiveSeconds" (a collaboration with Rihanna that also featured the subtle ornamentation of McCartney) and "All Day" two months later seemed to confirm this theory.
Word of the Day adjective: of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 adjective: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation noun: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century _________ The word baroque has appeared in 318 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Jan.
To inject some springtime fun into your look (if hot pink jeans are not for you), a bit of rainbow-colored ornamentation is an approachable way to go.
The theme gave the designers leave to express their penchant for couture-level ornamentation via floating layers of tulle embroidered with clouds, or folkloric runes, or feathered wings.
As the Countess, the soprano Susanna Phillips, too, put ornamentation in "Dove sono" that felt imposed on the music rather than an organic outgrowth of line or feeling.
Draped with sumptuous fabric, he is being transformed like one of the sea creature vessels with their gilt ornamentation, and with as little consideration for his individual experience.
In the rest of the house, the reality star has a lavish decor style, with much of her furniture featuring white and gold ornamentation—especially in the living room.
Mr. Gilmour's guitar solos depend on neither speed nor ornamentation but on narrative clarity; he seizes a melody, ascends through it and gives a bluesy insistence to its climax.
"It's worth noting that with Irish music, the score is taken as a guide, a skeleton which is fleshed out with the musicians' ornamentation and personal style," Banarsë said.
We had those magnetic ribbons for every cause known to man, and now I feel like this kind of ornamentation has gotten a lot less common on our cars.
While fabrics that can change shape and color are wildly fun and inventive, inspiring designers everywhere, modernization and innovation in fashion may become a matter of utility, not ornamentation.
That's primarily because this testimony is a bureaucratic legal document, and ornamentation and emotions have no place in it — but its literary effect is a kind of Hemingway-esque restraint.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The ornamentation of medieval churches is often associated with the elite: stained glass windows, ornately carved pews, and memorial monuments to lords and knights.
Susan and Anne start out sharing a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, piled with boxes and bereft of ornamentation save for Anne's mattress on the living room floor.
Burnham's skinny building — a clever architectural solution to an unusual lot — shot straight up from the ground, with no setbacks, its three sides covered with classically inspired terra-cotta ornamentation.
The result is an album that's rooted in the band's early experimental period but is actually produced well, giving the songs a lush ornamentation that features an actual string trio.
"A lot of cities still think of trees as just ornamentation," says Rob McDonald, the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy's Global Cities program and a co-author of the report.
So it seemed symbolic that on my latest visit, I found my building looking like a mausoleum: windows plastered up, ornamentation stripped clean, top three floors entombed, as if in concrete.
Even when there's a flurry of instruments playing at once, they usual shirk drama in favor of delicate ornamentation, taking pleasure in a moment, finding the beauty in each swirling note.
Pursuing this relationship between ornamentation and giantism further would not only shed light on larger evolutionary trends, it could provide clues about the environments and ecological niches these extinct animals inhabited.
Likewise, the intertwining of shelter, historical record, kinship marker, and ornamentation that actual, situated totems signify is alien to most modern and contemporary western art practices — and it remains alien here.
They have also taken the opportunity to somewhat revise what "Spanish Colonial Art" means by, overall, downplaying gilt, ornamentation and spectacle in favor of complex cultural narratives and subtler visual drama.
After the ornamentation is complete, the leather is fitted to the box, its edges secured by Louis Vuitton's lozinage technique, in which tiny brass nails are individually hammered into the border.
At the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, watercolors of Cretan friezes by artists in Evans's employ have an Art Nouveau ornamentation more appropriate to London's Liberty department store.
Strip the Samsung's Galaxy Watch of its signature rotating bezel, shrink the round display, and ditch all the ornamentation around the case, and what you're left with is the Galaxy Watch Active.
My house is an extremely flammable shrine to the art of cork ornamentation, and when I need a new cork fix, I like to browse the many fine products available at www.corkornaments.com.
When he's at work, at the Tower of London, Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife typically wears a uniform featuring a royal-blue tabard with scarlet ornamentation, a brass-buckled belt, and a bonnet.
Straddling the line between the modern, interconnected world and an earlier, humanistic, physically-motivated era, Brooklyn-based artist Dan Funderburgh's illustrations and printed works exemplify the beauty in crafted patterns and ornamentation.
At the end of the series finale, though, her hair was styled in a way we've never seen it before: pin-straight, completely loose, with no ornamentation aside from a delicate tiara.
The shoulder ornamentation was dropped in the 1960s "to lessen the military influence," the United Nations said, and those uniforms were dropped altogether in 1963 for dark-jewel-blue skirts and jackets.
There is a fine line between horror and humor, and if you adjust your angle of vision accordingly, you can see the architecture of farce beneath the ornamentation of shock and suffering.
The felt appliqué technique is a form of ornamentation where a pattern or shape, cut out of textiles, is sewn on top of another piece of material; basically a collage made from cloth.
A lot of what we're putting in is really a lot of pain and pleasure of inhabiting gender and enjoying the beauty of the textures and the colors and the ornamentation of femininity.
Maria Berrio (who, like Patterson, is an artist I've long wanted to write about since encountering her work years ago) sends the theme of ornamentation diving off a cliff with her "Nativity" (2014).
Displayed in a side gallery of the cavernous Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, the bodice was covered with the kind of bird-quill ornamentation that might find roost on an Alexander McQueen runway.
In the 1960s, the 9P ultrathin manual-winding caliber opened up all manner of possibility for ornamentation and color using hard stones like malachite, lapis lazuli, jade and tiger's-eye on the dials.
"I often use ornamentation and decoration because I have great respect for the craftsman before me and the approach of inviting someone to a conversation by appealing to their aesthetic interests," he said.
Living and working in the Bay Area, transdisciplinary artist Nicki Green mainly uses craft processes and sculpture work to examine the aesthetics of otherness as well as the preservation of history through conceptual ornamentation.
The Golden Palace, which is an off-market exclusive listing with Carol Cassis and Stephan Burke of Douglas Elliman, features a gold-plated and Swarovski crystal chandelier and gold leafed ornamentation throughout the home.
The selections had echoes of orientalism and ornamentation — just as Ms. Trump's choice of a kimono-inspired dress, complete with obi belt, by the Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz, did in Japan earlier this month.
Soviet music schools at the time paid scant attention to the Italian tradition of bel canto singing, which cultivated evenness through the range, smooth phrasing and the ability to embellish vocal lines with ornamentation.
A few weeks later, Magid returned, armed with business cards and a corporate-speak sales pitch, presenting herself as the Head Security Ornamentation Professional at System Azure, a company that she had made up.
Beckett uses the ornamentation in her landscapes to speak about her subjects' inner worlds "as they twist like gnarled branches, softly desaturate with melancholy, or bloom with vanity and education," writes the Corey Helford Gallery.
"Many Irish and Scottish melodies are the same, but the ornamentation is different," Mr. MacIsaac said, unleashing a seemingly effortless stream of notes, a vivid example of a culture transported here from across the ocean.
Cumulatively titled, The NewOnes, will free Us, the statues address the rote transformation of women into ornamentation in veiled references to the column-like caryatids sculpted from marble in Greece and wood in West Africa.
On La Plaza Grande (the main square) David pointed out the Catedral de San Ildefonso and the Casa de Montejo, both constructed of stone from the ancient pyramids and temples, both dripping with Renaissance ornamentation.
A recent performance at the Stone in Manhattan showed off the hallmarks of this music, built on the maqam scales of Arabic music, with jazzy flights of improvisation and fleeting echoes of early Baroque ornamentation.
In the department of what goes around comes around (my favorite department, don't you know), the Nazis disliked Futura for eliminating their Fraktur-style heavy ornamentation — until they took Futura as their own, with no explanation.
Released in 2010, her book I Wonder (Monacelli Press) is an attempt to synthesize her penchant for ornamentation, her formal research and reading, and her lived experience into a kind of wildly illuminated manuscript of observational philosophy.
Natural light poured into the multicolored room, highlighting its indelible features: over a dozen types of marble; gold-leaf ornamentation on the ceiling; and murals by the artists Barse Miller, Conrad Buff and, once again, Hugo Ballin.
No wonder, then, that to the teenagers pouring through the stone corridors in Chase Twichell's poem, the medieval architecture of the Met Cloisters seems like a walk-through peep show, each ornamentation more lurid than the next.
The composition is a highly original hybrid of the usual operatic elements (orchestral passages, choruses and recitatives) with a native Azerbaijani style of sung storytelling, known as mugham, characterized by long passages of structured improvisation and ornamentation.
Tattoos, nail art, and other ornamentation do not clash with the grandeur of Victorian and rococo backdrops so much as mingle with their graphic properties — exalting expressions of urban Blackness as rich with meaning and historic value.
Of course, no holiday ornamentation would be complete without a tree and a wreath, and Henderson admits that one of her favorite items from the new collection is the oversized statement wreath that's actually made of faux greens.
On her new album, "Hush," she is joined by the electric guitarist Marnix Dorrestein in early Baroque pieces, often transposing them down to keys that allow for a more natural, pop-like style, devoid of vibrato and ornamentation.
You probably know it as henna, but in actuality Mehndi (it's real name) originated in places like Northern India, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa, as a form of sacred ornamentation used in weddings and other festive events.
The most remarkable is the spectacular St. John's Co-Cathedral, a grandiose Baroque insanity with abundant gilded ornamentation, frescoes and friezes, marble statuary and elaborately inlaid tombs in the floor, decorated with, among other images, unsettlingly animated skeletons.
That restaurant moved in 28009 to a different space (still within the Herald Sun building) where its intimate dining room resembles a luxe disco insect hive, with curved cream leather booths and a ceiling of brass podlike ornamentation.
This same impetus informed his project, "The Flesh is Yours, The Bones Are Ours," originally exhibited at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, which revisited the work of Armenian craftsmen who created ornamentation for the facades of Istanbul's Art Nouveau buildings.
The common thread that ties together all the of these items is the elaborate ornamentation, meticulous fabrication, and lavish expense of the one-of-a-kind garments for which the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute has come to be known.
The exoskeletal harness system developed by Cornell's Aeronautical Laboratory in 1972 was both a system of excessive technological ornamentation and a solid feedback loop in which motor impulses from nerves and muscles were picked up and fed to artificial muscles.
Common musical patterns appeared throughout, like an Alberti bass figure in the left hand (a way of playing broken chords as four successive notes that go low-high-middle-high) or a type of melodic ornamentation known as a mordent.
At Valentino, ornamentation is often the key, like animal patterns embossed on jackets and coats and on handsome puffers made in collaboration with Moncler — the collectible as opposed to the generic, things that look every bit as expensive as they are.
Reichek's "Harlem Arcadia: Two Block Radius" (2015–16) is wonderful because the work seems to be plainly figurative — mostly architectural ornamentation — but on inspection one can see the detail of the machine-made embroidery on the linen she uses as her canvas.
How does one follow the most-visited Costume Institute show in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the top three most-visited exhibits over all, one that grappled with the sacred questions of God, biblical allusion and religious ornamentation?
Born at Paris's venerated art and architecture school, the École des Beaux-Arts, the hallmarks of the movement from the 193th and early 20th centuries are classical weightiness, grandeur and tradition combined with a technologically aided focus on lightness, uplift and intricate ornamentation.
Like most cabalettas, "Ah bello a me ritorna" includes a profusion of coloratura, but Bellini makes the piece even more daunting by gradually adding more and more ornamentation as it progresses, until the final pages are a blaze of scales and trills.
In an effort to express disdain for worldly luxury and attachments, and to live rather in anticipation of the world to come, they forsook ornamentation, fineries, and elaborately decorated or dyed garments, and rather donned the plain and simple clothing of the poor.
Things like wallpaper and carpeting that tried too hard to effect three-dimensionality, cheap or ersatz materials imitating good or genuine ones, wacky proportions, and the use of ornamentation to gaudy excess all offended the reformers, who preferred elegant, semi-abstract iterations of natural forms.
In But Beautiful, his 1991 book about jazz, Geoff Dyer describes the music of Thelonious Monk as if he had built a bridge, but then, after removing the supporting spars, left only the ornamentation — it's as if the structure is built around what isn't there.
The exhibition was an expansion upon and celebration of the 1915 treatise Projective Ornament by American architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon, and related to Auerbach's interest in "consciousness as a four-dimensional material" and the notion that ornamentation is capable of enabling mind-altering experiences.
" Before coming out as gay, David had been briefly married to Julie Fiske, who now lives outside Boston in a house that "loomed above the houses around it with turrets and porches and ornamentation that bridged the architectural gap between Queen Anne and Carpenter Gothic.
As daylight drains from the wide, empty plain outside the uncurtained windows, and the darkness makes the uncanny quiet feel even more silent, I fall into a brief reverie about the human hunger for ornamentation and the expressionlessness of my electric lamps back home.
Mr. Murakami's golden multipanel "Kawaii – vacances (Summer Vacation in the Kingdom of the Golden)" (2008), populated with a field of smiling flower faces, echoes the dazzling ornamentation of poppies on a gold ground in a 17th-century screen by the school of Tawaraya Sotatsu.
The school was designed by the celebrated architect C.B.J. Snyder in the French Renaissance Revival style, though much of its ornamentation was removed by Mr. Singer over a decade ago in what Mr. Singer himself admits was a failed attempt to prevent a landmark designation.
The ornamentation is neoclassical — images of urns and decorative garlands — so not surprising (if you look up at the buildings in Harlem), but she uses thread to devise shadows, highlights, and form, and when you get close to the work, you see how intricate it is.
The most extreme examples of this are two full-scale table sets — chairs and all — handmade from an insane amount of silver with an outrageous degree of ornamentation, first displayed at the 1900 Exposition in Paris and then at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.
At the turn of the 20th century, when rail travel (above and below ground) was rapidly expanding, the Arts and Crafts movement was also going strong, and some of the best ceramic companies (like Grueby and Rookwood) provided signs and ornamentation to the city's subway stations.
At the swingin' Vegas pad of the brothers Bradley and Rodney Mitchum (last seen beating down and throwing out their casino manager after Dougie Jones won 30 consecutive jackpots), three pink-clad cocktail waitresses, Sandie, Mandie and Candie, flit around, serving as both maids and ornamentation.
Though the captive Konstanze declares that she would rather submit to "every kind of torture" than surrender sexually to the pasha, she also seems drawn to him ("admire you, yes, but love you, never"), and her stunningly difficult ornamentation of her aria recalls Osmin's in its extremity.
My voice is different from yours in many ways, Jackie, and so there are certain things that sound more natural and sincere coming from me: a slight change in the way I'm handling timbre, a slight change in the way I handle ornamentation in certain scenes.
She is a solemn, high-cheekboned, female iteration of Monkman's own image, with dark hair that's been piled in a Rococo-style wig appointed with First Nations ornamentation, a ruffled and embroidered dress trimmed in fur, and moccasin-clad feet kicking forward to match the action of the swing.
Much of Lungangi's art traffics in exquisite ornamentation, like "L'Homme Cosmique" (2015), where a gravity-free figure floats in a super-fluid pointillist field that suggests the flickering formative forces of emergence, which is central to both theories of integrative levels and complex systems, as well as to magic.
FROM RICK OWENS'S ragged T-shirts and canvas shifts to the giddy ornamentation of Alessandro Michele's Gucci, all glitz and blitz and reconstituted Elton John costumes, the spring collections appeared to not have a common thread between them — a seemingly bipolar mix of downtrodden, derelict styles and escapist fantasies.
From now until October, this masterpiece of the Mexican Baroque — a lighter, less rigid style than its European counterpart, making use of bright color and free ornamentation — stands alone in the Lehman Wing courtyard, and its churning collision of saints and mortals should encourage all sorts of veneration.
The best kind of challenge coin is the all-too-rare bottle opener, because functionality is anathema to military ornamentation, and because they tacitly acknowledge the fighting military's dependence on alcohol to patch over the cognitive dissonance required to make a career out of the global war on terror.
It turns up its Roman nose at the modernists' hope for authentic, local materials expressing their fundamental essence; at the Prairie School's pragmatic, ecologically aware eaves; at the prefab ornamentation of Arts and Crafts; at Hugh Ferris megalopolises and Broadway boogie-woogie modernism … the hell with all that American stuff.
Beyond the city's verdant Parque Central, these new additions are taking root near 17th- and 23th- century buildings in the Baroque Antigueño style, with decorative stucco ornamentation and low bell towers designed to withstand earthquakes — such as Las Capuchinas, a former convent that is now a colonial-era art museum.
Their sharp angles or what Natalie Bell identifies in the exhibition catalog as the combination of "the accelerated energy of Futurism with a cryptic semiotics," infuses them with a weird modernity, not the clean precision of the Bauhaus, but the side of 20-century art engaged with abstract ornamentation and the decorative.
Or maybe not: the cool wrap-front jeans, patchwork-denim Converse sneakers and outsize khakis were notable both for a restraint unusual by the standards of this designer and for ornamentation that leaned heavily on such elements of Americana as trading cards, jeans jackets, flip-flops, kiddie glitter hearts and Coca-Cola script.
"This new animal is one of the more primitive hadrosaurids known and can therefore help us to understand how and why the ornamentation on their heads evolved, as well as where the group initially evolved and migrated from," said lead study author Albert Prieto-Márquez of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont near Barcelona.
Surrounded by a lush installation filled with intricate sculptural elements — whose forms evoke the organic ornamentation of Art Nouveau, but whose materials are often surprisingly utilitarian, as with the seemingly delicate leaves made of latex caulking and wire mesh — I was inexorably compelled to focus on the uncomfortable dynamics of looking in one painting.

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