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sofa painting
n. (context pejorative English) A painting that is acquired to match a color scheme or match a sofa.
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Sofa painting
Sofa painting is a pejorative term for paintings that match a color scheme or match a sofa.
However, a 2002 exhibition of sofa art, entitled "A Painting for Over the Sofa (that’s not necessarily a painting)," showed that art made to go over the sofa could also communicate highly charged artistic messages. The exhibition, organized by the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, Florida, debuted at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Usage examples of "sofa painting".
She made him clean the house, and would sit on the sofa painting her toes, listening to him in the hallway, ringing out each task he did: 'Duh-ddinnn, now,' he'd warble.