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Recent Examples of odalisque
Mickalene Thomas gets a whole room for her paintings of Black odalisques, and Derrick Adams gets an entire wall of his male nudes.
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Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 19 through March 12 In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
One of our first glimpses of the young performer, played by Austin Butler, is from behind, draped against some flotsam at a carnival like a country-boy odalisque, his beauty evident even from the partial view.
—Vulture, 24 June 2022
These women, usually sitting or lying, provide the base for each chaise longue’s form—turning the image of an odalisque into the furniture itself.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
Displayed as a conventional odalisque — a reclining nude — in an unexpectedly static five-minute video shot.
—Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
Baker figures elsewhere as a cheerful odalisque, eloquently emulating a motif from Matisse.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Each includes a reclining odalisque, two seated women around a hookah, and a female Black servant.
—Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2 July 2021
Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 19 through March 12 In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
One of our first glimpses of the young performer, played by Austin Butler, is from behind, draped against some flotsam at a carnival like a country-boy odalisque, his beauty evident even from the partial view.
—Vulture, 24 June 2022
These women, usually sitting or lying, provide the base for each chaise longue’s form—turning the image of an odalisque into the furniture itself.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
Displayed as a conventional odalisque — a reclining nude — in an unexpectedly static five-minute video shot.
—Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
Baker figures elsewhere as a cheerful odalisque, eloquently emulating a motif from Matisse.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Each includes a reclining odalisque, two seated women around a hookah, and a female Black servant.
—Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for odalisque
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Queen of the Night is a big juicy epic about the many travails of an opera singer and courtesan in 18th-century France, her many enemies, and her many lovers.Constance Grady, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024
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The title character was a French commoner turned courtesan (a polite term for high-class prostitute) who lived from 1743 to 1793.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2024
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So perhaps Ammon does have a few intrepid bondsmen on his tail.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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In Georgia, bail bondsman Scott Hall was charged in relation to the alleged breach of voting machine equipment in the wake of the 2020 election in Coffee County.Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The future outlook, unfortunately, is cloudy for lovers of the morning cup o’ Joe.Alicia Wallace, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
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While the 2024 Golden Vines pulled out all the stops for wine lovers who gathered from around the world, Miami is set to one-up one of the great wine weekends of the year.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
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Instead, her cruel masters decide to punish their slave for being sick by burying her alive.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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President Andrew Johnson pardoned former Confederate leaders and restored to political power many of the old Confederate elites who proceeded to keep their former slaves poor, controlled, and powerless.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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In this scene, Romy and her paramour, Samuel (Harris Dickinson), were alone in a cheap hotel room in Manhattan, attempting to define their new dynamic.Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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The drama is largely relational, as the Koubek brothers and their paramours wrestle with the conventions that pervade their lives.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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To this day, she’s drawn to the bruise of blue that belies the kittenish blush, the tension between the girl next door and the demimondaine, who are not so far apart, who may even be one.Susan Dominus Photographs by Joshua Kissi Styled by Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs by Collier Schorr Styled by Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs by Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
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The object of Christian’s adoration is Satine, a nightclub chanteuse and demimondaine, almost past her prime and riddled with consumption.Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 July 2019
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This led to the development of a particular type of housing structure known as chattel houses in countries such as Barbados.Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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According to a jury verdict form dated Sept. 19, 2024, Campus Advantage was found liable for the conversion of chattels of Postell's property and for breach of contract with Postell.Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Odalisque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odalisque. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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