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- noun Plural form of
triptych .
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Examples
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He sometimes worked with tape, chromium steel and mirrors instead of paint, and he bought bolts of single-colored factory-dyed cotton and stretched it unaltered as diptychs and triptychs.
Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011
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It has been expanded for the New York show to include new items, such as a never-before-shown film of Ms. Meière making portable triptychs for military field chapels during World War II.
Recalling Art Deco Stylist Who Defined City Jennifer Maloney 2012
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I have always liked triptychs and three-part works, as well as square or nearly square formats, so playful number 60 stood out.
Friends of the Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library Art Show, Stony Creek, Conn. 2009
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WHY: Andy Warhols body of work has been combed over by everyone from patrons to amateurs - his brightly colored triptychs to the Campbell's soup can and Brillo soap pads have been lauded and reproduced year after year.
PHOTOS: Andy Warhol's Famed Polaroids On View In NYC Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2011
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No, from the complex triptychs of his previous two books, Cunningham has moved to a svelte story with just a touch of actual plot about an art dealer feeling cramped by his own smallness.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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He sometimes worked with tape, chromium steel and mirrors instead of paint, and he bought bolts of single-colored factory-dyed cotton and stretched it unaltered as diptychs and triptychs.
Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011
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I have always liked triptychs and three-part works, as well as square or nearly square formats, so playful number 60 stood out.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Rothko's 14 paintings—three triptychs and five separate panels, some of which are 15 feet tall—were completed in April 1967.
An Interior of Spiritual and Artistic Subtlety Willard Spiegelman 2011
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No, from the complex triptychs of his previous two books, Cunningham has moved to a svelte story with just a touch of actual plot about an art dealer feeling cramped by his own smallness.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010
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His enormous watercolors can suggest a cross between the bird illustrations of John James Audubon, the 19th-century American naturalist, and the fantastical triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch.
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