Leonora
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“None of them are interested. When I mentioned it to Leónora, she laughed, because she’s such a city girl, and they need us in the countryside, where there may not be electricity or plumbing. Plus she said her family is thinking about moving to Miami. Lots of people are talking about leaving Cuba.”
From Literature
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In the last segment, “Magic Art”—highlighting lackluster pictures by Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Victor Brauner and Enrico Donati—“Dreamworld” loses its footing.
Leonora Carrington’s grandmother is making tortillas in Milan.
The scene recalls the judgment of Edward James, the eccentric Englishman and great patron of the Surrealist movement: “The paintings of Leonora Carrington are not merely painted. They are brewed. They sometimes seem to have materialized in a cauldron at the stroke of midnight.”
That canvas hangs in the final gallery of “Leonora Carrington,” the artist’s first full retrospective in Italy.
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