Oeuvre can refer to a single work of art, but it's much more commonly used to refer to everything they've ever done—especially when discussing or analyzing the major themes or styles they've focused on throughout their career.
How do you use the word oeuvre?
Oeuvre in a Sentence ?
- The painter's oeuvre includes over forty paintings and is characterized by the artist's vivid depiction of nature.
- Since the memorial concert will feature numerous hits from the singer's oeuvre, it is going to last for several hours.
What does oeuvre mean?
: a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer a catalogue of Rembrandt's oeuvre scrupulously examines Dickens' oeuvre in order to demonstrate how his convictions helped to determine the shape of his novels— G. J. Worth.
