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Example sentences for: painting
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The buyer of "Portrait of an Artist Without His Beard" is not known, but the tidy sum represents nearly three times the painting's estimated price and the third-highest amount ever paid for an auctioned artwork.
When you enter the current show at the Museum of Modern Art, titled "Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life," you find yourself in a small white room with only one painting on the wall, Cézanne's Still Life With a Ginger Jar and Eggplants (1890-94).
Here even the bridges — connecting lake isles to the palace shores — wouldn’t be out of place in a Ming or Qing scroll painting, particularly the celebrated Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqi Kong Qiao), 150 m (492 ft) long and built of white marble.
Sole drawback: Spurling is "not an especially penetrating commentator on painting" (Kenneth Baker, the San Francisco Chronicle ). (Read the first chapter, courtesy of the New York Times .)
Only Linda Nochlin (whose contribution to the catalog of the Chicago show is an overview of Impressionist portraiture with almost nothing on Renoir) used the Art in America occasion to say something serious and illuminating about Renoir's art, noting that Renoir's men--in such idylls as Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) and Dance at Bougival (1883) (both great paintings, which blur the distinction between portrait and genre painting, are in the Chicago show)--offer a masculine ideal counter to the male predators and businessmen of Degas and Manet: "Tough and tender at once," these men "are luscious, peachy-skinned and downy-haired, with heavy-lidded eyes and yearning red mouths."
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