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painting
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[ noun ] (fine art) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
Synonyms Examples "a small painting by Picasso" "he bought the painting as an investment" "his pictures hang in the Louvre" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Paintings and drawings by Marie_Moore of St._Thomas , Virgin_Islands , are shown thru Nov. 5 at the Meadows_gallery , 3211 Ellis_Ave. , week_days , 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. , Sundays 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. , closed Mondays . An exhibition of Evelyn_Cibula 's paintings will open with a reception Nov. 5 at the Evanston_Community_center , 828 Davis_st. . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The `` projection '' time of painting and sculpture is highly subjective , varying from person to person and even varying for a given person on different occasions . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911 , when he glued a piece of imitation caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas . It was because of this chain-reaction as_much_as for any other reason - that_is , because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape - that the identity of depicted_objects , or at_least parts of them , re-emerged in Braque 's and Picasso 's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there - but only as flattened silhouettes - than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913 . |
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[ noun ] (fine art) making a picture with paints
Examples "he studied painting and sculpture for many years" Used in print (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He observed the Florentine vase in the hall , the Renoir painting in the library , as_well_as the long shelves of well-bound volumes ; the pattern of the Oriental rug , the delicate cut-glass chandelier . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)That is why our creative people give their time to literature , not to painting or sculpture '' . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form : his models , drawings , ten foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days , and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as_though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac . |
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[ noun ] (work) the act of applying paint to a surface
Examples "you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)In we 're painting at our garage strong stress on at indicates that the job being done is not real painting but simply an effort at painting . In we 're painting at our garage strong stress on at indicates that the job being done is not real painting but simply an effort at painting . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)`` Did n't you have an old pair of painting overalls in the garage ? `` I 've never owned any painting overalls . Related terms application spatter finger_painting finger-painting spray_painting paint |
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[ noun ] (work,housing,business) the occupation of a house painter
Synonyms Examples "house painting was the only craft he knew" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)The interior_designer , then , must first be an artist but also understand carpentry and painting and lighting and plumbing and finance . Related terms |
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