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Definition of horror vacui in English: horror vacuinoun ˌhɒrə ˈvakjuːʌɪˌhôrər ˈvakyəwī A fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition. Example sentencesExamples - Making a virtue out of necessity, he filled up the wall space, guided by a joyous horror vacui.
- As if suffering from horror vacui, Grant covers the shaped supports with densely packed words and images, mostly hand-drawn in black and white and loosely relating to the governing silhouette.
- One of the Seattle-based artists Hodges shows is Alfredo Arreguin, a native of Mexico whose prints and paintings combine a remarkable luminosity with a case of horror vacui.
- But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them.
- Kahn seems at once to have a horror vacui, for which he compensates with microcosmic, allover, one-brushstroke-at-a-time execution, painting every blade of grass, or - almost, it seems every thread in the carpet.
- And yet, for groups as diverse as the Frankfurt School and the College of Sociology, this flirtation was a progressive form of horror vacui with regard to spaces that fascism had previously monopolized for its own ends.
- Their allover patterns also owe something to '70s Pattern and Decoration, something to Islamic motifs, to mosaics, something to horror vacui.
- Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard.
- They need to fill the space, it's a kind of horror vacui.
- After introducing the concept of horror vacui, my third-graders created their own version of this belief.
- Lush painterly abstraction erupts at the upper right, while the rest of the painting is a horror vacui of scrambled imagery that now, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, looks sickeningly realistic.
- Overarching tree leaves take care of the horror vacui.
Origin Modern Latin, 'horror of a vacuum'. Definition of horror vacui in US English: horror vacuinounˌhôrər ˈvakyəwī A fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition. Example sentencesExamples - Kahn seems at once to have a horror vacui, for which he compensates with microcosmic, allover, one-brushstroke-at-a-time execution, painting every blade of grass, or - almost, it seems every thread in the carpet.
- And yet, for groups as diverse as the Frankfurt School and the College of Sociology, this flirtation was a progressive form of horror vacui with regard to spaces that fascism had previously monopolized for its own ends.
- One of the Seattle-based artists Hodges shows is Alfredo Arreguin, a native of Mexico whose prints and paintings combine a remarkable luminosity with a case of horror vacui.
- Lush painterly abstraction erupts at the upper right, while the rest of the painting is a horror vacui of scrambled imagery that now, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, looks sickeningly realistic.
- Overarching tree leaves take care of the horror vacui.
- After introducing the concept of horror vacui, my third-graders created their own version of this belief.
- Making a virtue out of necessity, he filled up the wall space, guided by a joyous horror vacui.
- As if suffering from horror vacui, Grant covers the shaped supports with densely packed words and images, mostly hand-drawn in black and white and loosely relating to the governing silhouette.
- Their allover patterns also owe something to '70s Pattern and Decoration, something to Islamic motifs, to mosaics, something to horror vacui.
- But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them.
- Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard.
- They need to fill the space, it's a kind of horror vacui.
Origin Modern Latin, ‘horror of a vacuum’. |