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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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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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Since 1766, its intimate salons have served as an elegant house of pleasure, where courtesans entertained their wealthy aristocratic patrons.Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 28 Sep. 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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Most wine lovers know that the word Sauvignon comes from the French word sauvage and the word blanc simply means white, but most people don’t know the reason is because when untrained vines of the variety have a distinctly unkempt appearance.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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The opera follows the doomed lovers and their coterie of artist friends chasing happiness against impossible odds.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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During this period of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly 300,000 enslaved persons were transported in slave ships from African ports to mainland North America and more than 3.4 million disembarked in the British and French West Indies.Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Marvel’s Moon Knight Director Mohamed Diab has revealed fresh details about his new feature Lion, starring Egyptian megastar Mohamed Ramadan in a role inspired by Ancient Rome rebel slave Spartacus.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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If her ostensible paramour was marked by sadness and an inability to relate, Molly connects more with places and things.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Throughout season 33, there has appeared to be nothing but well wishes and support between the two former paramours.EW.com, EW.com, 23 Oct. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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