Piercing

Piercing
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Piercing
Decorative cuts through a clay form. (metal) Work done with a jeweler's saw, particularly when cutting within a shape.
Pigment ...

Piercing
Pressing
The action in each case is denoted by the meaning of the word which stands for it.

Considering the violence and pathos of so much of his subject matter - prisons, deserted villages, city slums, race riots, labor camps - his images are restrained, and all the more piercing for their lack of bombast.

Some of the most popular types of body art are tattoos, and piercings but other types of body art involve air brushing, scarring, branding, scalpelling, shaping with corsets and lace and body painting.

openwork - Openwork is what many call any object or architectural construction produced in such a way that it shows a pattern of openings (perforations, piercings, gaps, holes), typically to decorative effect.

Mathias Grunewald, most fully represented by the multipaneled Isenheim Altarpiece (1515; Musee d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France), is by contrast filled with high-pitched expressive power conveyed through agonized human forms, and brilliant, piercing ...

These more extreme piercings developed in parallel with Barbara Hepworth's sculptures.[38] Hepworth first pierced a torso after misreading a review of one of Henry Moore's early shows.

Tattoos and body piercings are the most common form of body art. Other types include branding, scarification, body shaping, full body tattoo and body painting. Body art can take a more extreme form in bodily mutilation and acts of physical endurance.

His highly formalized, linear Byzantine style Virgin has a piercingly beauty, with a melancholy look, and a crown and a golden halo.

This Australian Aborigine displays scarification on his face, shoulders and chest, along with face paint and nose piercing.

Constable frequently depicted Salisbury’s famous spire, which, at 404 feet, is the tallest in England. Piercing the air, the lofty steeple attracts attention to the atmosphere around it.

These represented the piercing gaze of Gala Dali, whom Dali had met in 1929. At the time, she had been the darling of the Surrealist movement, not to mention the wife of Paul Eluard, the French poet.

body modifications, such as body piercings and tattoos
decorative objects (jewellery) such as a necklaces, bracelets, rings
medical or body shape altering devices (e.g.

And I looked at the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and city. My friends walked on. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature." ...

But for all that, the piercing of thethicket would have proceeded less tortuously, and those who are doingthe pioneering would have acquitted themselves with unabating tenacityin the service of the cause, if, ...

See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Composition, Renaissance