diptych

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Recent Examples of diptych Around 2013, Kalu also began creating distinctive circular drawings — whirlpools of overlapping ink, acrylic pen, graphite or oil pastel that are frequently presented as diptychs and triptychs. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025 Season one was already a stunner, but season two turned the whole enterprise into a striking diptych, inverting Cassian’s original arc of awakening by reframing him as one small part in a larger collective struggle. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 Her trademark spectacles and no-nonsense Prince Valiant haircut, along with the electrifying diptych Two Sunflowers (1980), completed the scene. Simon Chilvers, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2025 The exhibition is physically structured around five diptychs, each on a podium, juxtaposing five sculptures and five video installations. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diptych
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Noun
  • Cove, 2025, the right panel of a triptych, appears at first to be a pastoral scene of boatmen on a tropical shore.
    James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • In Atlanta, the SCAD FASH exhibition features some 75 looks, including ephemera from André’s home and rare archival photographs — arranged in a triptych of time and tone of red, white and black.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Roldán noted that Musk cut humanities funding through the Department of Government Efficiency last year, but now funds nationwide murals.
    Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • One of our neighbors, who's an artist, actually, did one of the murals.
    Jermont Terry, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Both dramas from Asia offer a panorama of a family rocked by unexpected circumstances and grappling with the mundane realities of an economic life mismatched to their goals.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Schmiede offers a rear window and ensuing 270-degree panorama optionally.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Although inspired by ancient techniques, the original fresco was only painted 25 years ago.
    Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The diocese of Rome addressed the controversy in press releases, noting that the fresco was being restored in a project.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Scrolling through the results, Benning then selected a diverse set of reference images and turned these into digital collages on an app on their phone, finally executing them on paper through the highly personal and painstaking medium of watercolor.
    Alex Bacon, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Patchwork prints, especially done up in watercolor hues, are a refreshing way to dial up the saturation in the bathroom without settling on any one solid hue.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The process of making those larger paintings has a little bit of an assembly-line aspect to it.
    Alex Bacon, Artforum, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There will be shopping, rides, henna and face painting.
    Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Made with gouache and pencil on paper, the work depicts a guitar and several everyday objects, including a bottle and a folded sheet of paper, arranged on a table in soft brown and gray tones.
    Dragana Jovanovic, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • With an airbrush borrowed from his job at an ad agency, Man Ray would blast droplets of gouache onto board or heavy paper and use stencils to organize the spray.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are already stickers with this texture that just stick to the surface, but nail experts can also do it from scratch by first applying nail polish and then a layer of clear acrylic.
    Paola Zamarripa, Glamour, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Equipped with radar, sensors, flashing lights that glint off the rotating acrylic cubes and real-time artificial intelligence that initiates dialogue with the viewer, the artwork is anything but static.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026

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“Diptych.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diptych. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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