How to Use art historical in a Sentence

art historical

adjective
  • But that is why she was rejected by the art historical canon.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2022
  • On an art historical Bechdel test, this gallery would earn a very rare A.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • First, to restore women to their rightful place in the art historical canon.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2019
  • One is that Liu’s work appears to be packed with art historical references.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Piñar says that once widely applied, her team’s technique could play a crucial part in art historical research.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Internes is a 6-foot-by-8-foot who’s who of cartoon, comic book, video game and art historical icons.
    — Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • There are different types of curators, some are very art historical and very formal.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In the third gallery, self-portraits by Jon Key skew the art historical canon in a different way.
    — Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • But in the last 25 years, the paintings have undergone a visual and art historical sea change.
    — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Part of what the artists in this show are undermining is the old art historical track that posits this monoculture of excellence in art.
    — Dallas News, 23 June 2022
  • The origin and spread of that equation is the show’s subject, which is a relatively new field of art historical scholarship.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Kiely, a painter, conjures women from art historical sources, studying sketches of artists’ models and self-portraits by women.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Still, along with 12 other white male artists whose dominance went on to influence the modern art historical canon.
    — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • There are, no doubt, references to art historical tropes, perhaps to images that remind of us of the brevity of life, or even penitence.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • His style of painting is the result of exposure to several art historical precedents.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
  • In the art world, the bridge from academia into museums means that art historical categories were brought over into museum culture.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Duchamp’s work is highly sought-after on the market, due both to his art historical importance and the limited amount of his art still available for purchase.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, two major exhibitions will plumb the depths of Modernism’s art historical canon.
    — John Zotos, Dallas News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Do the paintings in the new exhibition refer more to personal memories or art historical ones?
    — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
  • And that this glaringly obvious fact had been studiously ignored in almost all the art historical commentary on his work.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Potts said only that the consensus of art historical study, once divided, now leans against its authenticity.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This recycling adds another layer of art historical refusal; the works literally turn the great masters to the wall.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Her art blends societal issues, such as overconsumption and climate change, with knowledge of art historical content.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • So many of the references are of this very Eurocentric art historical tradition.
    — Stephanie Shih june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
  • The exhibition at Regen Projects will premiere a new video work and will feature paintings inspired by the art historical trope of the bather.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
  • There are plenty of art historical references here, as Black Cube points out in its supporting literature.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Satan is as much part of the art historical canon as Jesus, from Renaissance Hellmouths to Milton.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The work in this book, in particular, is very much in dialogue with painting and art historical conventions surrounding both portraiture and still life images.
    — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Below are some of the most important art historical and archaeological discoveries of the year.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The show is a terrifically important addition to our art historical knowledge of the era, as lively and absorbing as its descriptive but rather dry title is not.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 July 2018

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