Example sentences of "as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the number of people ill with AIDS increases so does the need for volunteers to care for them . |
| 2 | As the UK 's main independent AIDS home care provider , we cared for around 25% of all those who died of AIDS last year . |
| 3 | But it is a pain that many families are having to live with as the number of those dying of AIDS increases . |
| 4 | The authorities were not granting full access to detainees by independent bodies , such as the International committee of the Red Cross , and relatives were not being informed of detainees ' whereabouts . |
| 5 | In practice , however , issues such as the colour and social standing of the victim will also play a major part . |
| 6 | The first part of proceeding will be the jury selection , known as the vior dire . |
| 7 | One of Pater 's subjects for a perceptive essay was Leonardo da Vinci ; it gave special prominence to the painting now generally known as the Mona Lisa . |
| 8 | Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy , the symbol of the modern idea . |
| 9 | This comparison has fazed her , as she only knows about Lee Krasner as the widow of Jackson Pollock ; so the library visit is intended to check out reproductions of Lee Krasner 's work , to see if she has to concede that her friend may be right . |
| 10 | Venturi 's survey started with classical times , the uncertainties of writing by Xenocrates , lists of lost works such as the treatise by Apelles , and settled down to comment on two fundamental categories of criticism , the lives of artists , and the critic 's encounter with the work of art . |
| 11 | His writings on art include several reviews of the Paris Salons , which were either published in booklets or in journals such as the Revue française . |
| 12 | He described this aesthetic response as the bed-rock of conservative criticism . |
| 13 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 14 | Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 16 | In discussing Dürer , he treated him as the most versatile artist of a triumvirate , whose other members were Marcantonio Raimondi and Lucas van Leyden . |
| 17 | Van Gogh as the subject for a biographer is thus a test case . |
| 18 | The novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone , published in 1934 , is the most famous of these productions , popularising a vein of interpretation established early in the century by some of Van Gogh 's first advocates , such as the taste-maker Julius Meier-Graefe , who defended Van Gogh in 1906 , and went on to write a book in his praise in 1921 called Vincent . |
| 19 | We know that with major sculptures such as The Burghers of Calais and the Balzac , Rodin did not claim that they were equally successful from all points of view . |
| 20 | He paid close attention to characteristics in a painting so apparently insignificant as the shape of a nostril or the lobe of an ear , arguing that such details were too unimportant for a follower to copy exactly . |
| 21 | The ancient , weathered oak is the main motif , a theme as much used and loved by the Romantic poets and painters as the old willow tree . |
| 22 | A climate of artistic opinion is as tricky to predict as the English weather , and also quite as changeable . |
| 23 | In a combative book , The Art of Cézanne , he expounded a theory of rhythm in art which he advanced as the key to Cézanne 's success . |
| 24 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 25 | Sometimes a number conceals a genuinely significant programme , such as the Group of Seven had in Canada . |
| 26 | One puzzling decision for a critic to make is to decide whether to isolate any one artist as the leading figure of the group . |
| 27 | Denis Diderot gained lasting fame as the energetic editor of the French Encyclopaedia , but he is also rightly celebrated as an art critic . |
| 28 | It is doubtful how much influence a critic has today , though high claims are made for Clement Greenberg as the promoter of American Abstract Expressionism . |
| 29 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |