Example sentences for: decentered

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

  • Degas' manipulations of perspective, decentered compositions, and so on were always latent in the practice of Western painters; he merely pushed them further than anyone else had.

  • Sometimes the desire to work out an idea--as in the large-scale panel picture According to What (1964), which presents a series of Johns' customary images in a deliberately decentered composition--produces a flaccid surface.

  • The extraordinary landscapes that Soutine painted around 1921 in the provincial town of Céret, with their swirling wreaths of thick paint and decentered structure, could easily be mistaken for early de Koonings.

  • She extended the net patterns of the flowers across huge canvases, creating the white-on-white "Infinity Net" paintings that remain among her most beautiful creations and, along with color variants, were favorably compared at the time to the decentered, "allover" paintings of Jackson Pollock (., 1960).


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