Though the series' corny title, "April in Paris," speaks to the lush, romantic surface of Truffaut's films, the best of his works are profound.

The soft, lush surface gave way under him; he floundered, and pitched forward on his face.

Their bright palette and lush surfaces, held over from Guston's 1950's paintings, fused with their buoyant if sometimes horrific forms.

Beneath its lush surface, vivid with tropical plants and birdsong and rich with the scent of flowers, will lie mechanical guts that look like the engine room of a battleship.

His paintings have lush surfaces built up over the course of 3 to 5 years or more, and a luminous tension that evokes a deep emotional response in the viewer.

Mr. Mann's abstract paintings have lush, glossy surfaces and mysterious, swirly depths.

Redfield's lush surfaces indicate how Impressionism awakened several generations of American artists to the tactile properties of paint and the seductiveness of light.

He saw under Europe's old order and lush surface, "an oppressive social order without any sense of divine law in nature" which sat in antithesis to America's unexplored wilderness and less structured society.

John B. Read's lighting is stunning, mixing blues, greens and purples until the final backdrop becomes a lush emerald green surface.