Example sentences for: paintings

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

  • Rustic Poland excels at folk art and handicrafts, including hand-carved wooden (usually religious) figures; leather goods from the Tatra mountains; embroidery and lace; hand-painted eggs (especially at Christmas); and colorful naïve art and glass paintings, especially that of Zakopane.

  • He realized that the weird birds and body parts and eyes added nothing to his paintings.

  • 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.)

  • It continues the momentum of the 1998 acquisition of 101 paintings and prints by Paul Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, and the 1999 announcements of the promised gifts of the Glick Collection of contemporary glass and the Clowes Collection of 100 works by European Old Masters.

  • (The paintings are from the Met's collection but are ordinarily scattered around the museum.)


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