Example sentences for: harnett

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

  • There was space in that little white chapel at the start of the show to include an example of the trompe l'oeil American masters William Harnett and John Peto, contemporaries of Cézanne's, who are just as much founders of modern still life as Cézanne, and whose more playful spirit is just as tangible in the works at MoMA.

  • After all, the title of the show perfectly fits the objects Harnett and Peto assembled: dollar bills, snapshots of loved ones, jewel-studded pistols.

  • Harnett's practice of inserting newspaper headlines among his tacked-up objects turns up in Braque and Juan Gris, their way of asserting both the up-to-dateness of their art and the background noise of World War I.

  • As one ventures deeper into the 20 th century, from Dadaism to Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, it is Harnett one thinks of more often than Cézanne.


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