diptychs

noun

plural of diptych
as in triptychs

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  1. murals
  2. panoramas
  3. paintings
  4. canvases
Noun
  • Talladega College Founded in 1867 by former slaves, Talladega's campus is home to celebrated murals by Hale Woodruff depicting the 1839 Amistad slave ship rebellion.
    — Asia Alexander, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Her college-going daughter Sonali, who is good at art, painted murals on the walls.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of murals
Noun
  • In general, seek a perch with clear panoramas—such as a hilltop or open field instead of a thick forest.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
  • At the top of the residence, a rooftop deck offers 360-degree panoramas stretching from the Santa Monica Pier and Catalina Island to the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 July 2026
Definition of panoramas
Noun
  • Done at a large scale, at times measuring more than 8 feet wide, Urgessa begins his paintings by drawing them out on the floor before introducing oil to the canvas via a long brush.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Nothing of this reality is visible in the paintings themselves, whose facture is immaculate.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of paintings
Noun
  • At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Her own method is to paint directly onto wild-cotton canvases, without any preliminary drawings.
    — Gabriella Angeleti, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of canvases
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