| Making a virtue out of necessity, he filled up the wall space, guided by a joyous horror vacui. |
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| But the horror vacui in Brown's paintings is barely counterbalanced by her grudging inclination to create space within them. |
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| After introducing the concept of horror vacui, my third-graders created their own version of this belief. |
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| Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard. |
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| 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. |
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| Every surface is worked and finely carved in keeping with the tastes of an epoch that had a horror vacui, a horror of the void. |
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| Like other sculptures from the same period in Lisbon, these bas-reliefs express a highly decorative sense and show evidence of the horror vacui or fear of emptiness, such is the density of ornamentation on each panel. |
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| The decorative schema is evidently based on horror vacui. |
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| We are possessive by nature, we suffer from horror vacui, it is difficult for us to feel comfortable with an absence, perhaps because of it holding up a mirror to our vanity. |
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