The painting had an old superficial smoothness. At first it might have been a poster, so seemingly crude were it's contrasts.
A girl in a canary-yellow shirt and dark blue slacks, sitting on a grey wall [hoary old chestnut of a battlement wall] in full sunlight against a background of violent blue sea [conventional blue sea and the decorous English trees].
* Description taken from Five Little Pigs written by Agatha Christie *
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