Example sentences for: moma

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  • Léger saw the city of the 1940s through a 1920s temperament, reworking a drawing of 1924 into his appealing oil The Three Musicians (1944), a particular hit of the MoMA show.

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)

  • So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.

  • In 1968, she staged well-publicized nude-ins at MoMA's sculpture garden and at such Vietnam War-era hotspots as the Board of Elections.

  • In MoMA's beautiful of 1932, the little dog keeping vigil seems like a stand-in for Bonnard.


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