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stark adjective absolute, bald, bare, complete, decided, downright, entire, glaring, gross, outright, plain, positive, pure, rigidus, sheer, simple, staring, total, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very See also: naked, palpable, severe, unmitigated How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Yet the starkness is relieved by a sense of inner warmth, conveyed not only in some of the subject matter (a blinding sunrise, a priest hearing a confession), but by the richly burnished quality of Rouault's technique: "I reworked these plates again and again," he said, "sometimes making as many as twelve successive states" to reach the desired depth of tone, light, and shadow. Bunkered down in the landscape, the starkness and introversion of the concrete courtyards do little to suggest the presence of an art museum; rather they call to mind the brooding archaeological relics of military defence or a long lost civilisation. Christie's freely painted spreads are rendered in sumptuous reds and earth tones, shades of turquoise, and a sunny yellow repeated in Maize's garments and the life-giving ears of corn; his sweeping strokes of paint capture the joy of creation and renewal, the starkness of winter, and the tenderness of affection with equal ease. |
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