Example sentences of "about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also educate young people in schools about the dangers of drug use . |
| 2 | Tell the King that you are concerned about the case of Mohamed Srifi , currently in Kenitra Central Prison , Casablanca , who was arrested in 1974 , tortured , brought to trial in 1977 and jailed for 30 years after a blatantly unfair trial . |
| 3 | I had seen her face before , but only in silhouette , anonymous , as she spoke out about the inhuman conditions of political prisoners in Morocco 's forgotten dungeons . |
| 4 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 5 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 6 | There may , however , be questions in her mind about the choices open to her : how will the information in a catalogue differ from what is to be found in a monograph ? |
| 7 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 8 | Do art historians write about the past , while art critics write about the present ? |
| 9 | Do art historians write about the past , while art critics write about the present ? |
| 10 | Things are not so simple , as some art historians write well about the present , with a generosity of feeling and approach enriching to contemporary culture . |
| 11 | He wrote enthusiastically about the later work of Arshile Gorky : ‘ Gorky 's atmosphere , veiling the hard opaque wall of the canvas , evokes a nocturnal void or the vague , unstable image-space of the day-dreaming mind . ’ |
| 12 | They inquire about the who , what , when , where , and why of the art object ; often the object itself suggests which of these questions should be pursued . |
| 13 | Teachers of art are more likely to write books of instruction , and in their efforts to educate their students may make comments about the traditions they admire and from which they hope their students will learn . |
| 14 | In her reading about the Sistine Chapel , we can imagine our friend using a rule of thumb to distinguish what was helpful to her . |
| 15 | The custom of writing about the Salons was well established , and had inspired brilliant writing by such an important figure in the eighteenth century as Diderot . |
| 16 | This is a passage about The Slave Ship , painted by the artist in 1840 ; it comes from Modern Painters . |
| 17 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 18 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
| 19 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | In 1964 Peter Murray wrote an introduction to a new edition , in which he made an observation about the passage on Bernini 's St Teresa , the sculptural group in Rome which is a key work of the Baroque : |
| 21 | There is adequate historical data about the Sistine Chapel , but there is also a personal response : |
| 22 | Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 . |
| 23 | In it this English master printmaker wrote lucidly and well about the range of possibilities in his profession . |
| 24 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 25 | What can be deduced from a self-portrait is often controversial ; a critic is especially likely to read into a self-portrait some opinion held about the artist . |
| 26 | But Chadwick makes some sensible points about the questions raised by her account which challenge common assumptions about art and society . |
| 27 | Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts , and putting new points of view . |
| 28 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 29 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 30 | His dealer Ambroise Vollard wrote a book of reminiscences about the painter , including a famous passage about his portrait . |