Example sentences for: paintings

How can you use “paintings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who spent three years on Princess Mononoke and is reported to have done 70 percent of its paintings himself, seems to work from the outside in: to begin with the curve of the earth, then the mossy hills, the watercolor foliage, the nubby stones, the whorls on the wood, the meticulous carvings on a teacup.

  • Ever since the mythological paintings, he had aimed somehow to go beyond painting, to plug into the inner recesses of the soul.

  • Portuguese artists from the 15th to the 20th centuries are well represented, including paintings by Josefa de Óbidos and sculptures by Soares dos Reis.

  • He might actually be considered a great neglected photographer, although this neglect is only a consequence of the fame of his combine paintings and prints ("combine paintings" is Rauschenberg's own term for works that include both oil and objects on canvas).

  • A raw leg of mutton in the foreground of one of the paintings matches the couple's tired flesh while a stove burns brightly--Stanley's repressed desire, perhaps--in the background.


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