Example sentences for: painting

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

  • A painting (1988) by Andrew Festing of about 156 of the 290 Members of Parliament who had earlier been omitted from a portrait of Members, drawn by lot, who had been immortalized in 1987 by June Mendoza.

  • The Tower of Mist and Rain (Yanyulou), a two-story lakeside pavilion in the southern style, was favored by emperors for its foggy views resembling those of an old Chinese painting.

  • Von Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (The Iron Foundry, 1875) is a striking portrayal of industrial labor, and Oskar Kokoschka’s painting, Pariser Platz (1926), recalls the bustle around the Brandenburg Gate during the twenties.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • Television -- Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (PBS);


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