diptych

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Recent Examples of diptych Photo: Tria Giovan The Kitchen: A diptych of Roy Lichtenstein posters. Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 July 2024 The second half of Eastwood’s Iwo Jima diptych considers the battle from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers who entrenched themselves in tunnels and fought to the death against the invading force. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024 And on the first day of this year’s Art Basel in June, ARTnews reported that David Zwirner gallery sold a Joan Mitchell diptych titled Sunflowers (1990–91) for $18 million. Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024 Howey points to a diptych of Roy Lichtenstein posters in the kitchen. Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for diptych 
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Noun
  • For many, this wall was the highlight of the show: Van Gogh had envisioned such a triptych in a letter to his brother, Theo.
    Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Michael Dougherty’s masterful Halloween triptych tells three sinister stories about the inhabitants of a small town (including Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, and Leslie Bibb) who encounter a variety of frights on All Hallow’s Eve.
    EW.com, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Just before the opening of Flushing Meadows to the public, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered the mural overpainted.
    Richard Meyer, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Feast your eyes on Yauco From the rows of buildings painted in the same pattern to the vibrant murals scattered all over town, the southern town of Yauco is covered by more than 60 works of art thanks to the Yaucromatic Project.
    Amy Gordon, AFAR Media, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From my Expedition Suite, floor-to-ceiling windows frame the coastal panorama.
    Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The company looks to do the same inside the T1's rough-around-the-edges trailer box, carving out a 360-degree panorama of windows complemented by a wide, breezy French door entry.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Detectives closed the highway north of NW 72nd Street Friday evening to conduct their investigation and canvass for evidence.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The campaign runs Spanish phone banks six days a week, has weekly Spanish translation events and launches Spanish canvasses on the weekends.
    Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • His frescoes, such as The School of Athens and The Transfiguration, epitomize the ideals of the Renaissance, blending classical harmony with Christian themes.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The thermal baths are also connected to a banquet room decorated with elaborate frescoes that was announced last spring.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Art and home décor from her Santa Ynez estate, such as a Richard MacDonald bronze sculpture and her own watercolor paintings, add a personal touch to the collection.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The watercolor paintings Boy and Girl at a Well (1879) and Boy and Girl on a Swing (1879) were consigned to the auction house and sold after being appraised on the popular PBS program.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But the transcendence never quite ports over to his paintings of this era.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Catherine’s collection soon ballooned as the empress amassed 4,000 paintings, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, and 16,000 coins and medals.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • One of them was watercolor and one of them was done with opaque gouache — The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, all of these are gouaches.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
  • Her works are softly abstract; powdery colors form cloud-like shapes that might be superimposed with free-handed linear strokes in acrylic, gouache, oil stick, oil pastels, and graphite.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024

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