The artist's linear arabesques reminded Greenberg of the feminized forms of Art Nouveau. |
Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows. |
Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief. |
Rather than arabesques of asparagus grass and lingonberries on the floor of a boreal forest, they envision white treeless wastes. |
The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows. |
Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe. |