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Painting (1946) is an oil-on-linen painting by the Irish -born artist Francis Bacon . It was originally to depict a chimpanzee in long grass (parts of which may be still visible); Bacon then attempted to paint a bird of prey landing in a field. Bacon described ...
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n. 1 (lb en countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s). 2 (lb en uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface. 3 (lb en uncountable) The same activity as an art form. vb. (present participle of paint English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paint \Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting .] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. pi[,c] to adorn. Cf. Depict , Picture , Pigment , Pint ...
Usage examples of painting.
And with the painting finished, Brigit had spent the day at Akasha, tending to the plants that had been a bit neglected these last few days.
In spite of his hunger, Alec found it difficult to draw his eyes from the paintings.
Let him take it for granted in the fashion of the strictly aesthetic commentator who writes in sympathy with a Fra Angelico painting, or as that great modernist, Paul Sabatier, does as he approaches the problems of faith in the life of St.
Though Ther-midorian stories of sans-culottes playing skittles with the bones of the Valois and the Bourbons were probably apocryphal, a painting by Hubert Robert, that connoisseur of ruins, certainly shows coffins being lifted from their graves and stones being overturned and removed.
Venetian rose of old brocades and velvets, of weathered, sun-faded aquarelle paintings.
His voice crackled, screeched like a powered metal-cutter, as if it had been enhanced, his mouth a black hole, the painting of a scream of rage and pain.
Armand and entrust him with something as delicate as authenticating a painting?
When he saw the Bathers he felt exactly as I had: that this was a different world of painting, that one had to start over.
It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
She was in her biaxial period, and her strange light paintings were beginning to find a wider audience.
In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.
Her father was out in the back painting the kennel that one of his pals from the bookies had made for Hooves.
For all that, Marvell has excelled himself with his verse though I have chid him for some ugly rhyming and the childlike brickbats it does cast against the art of painting.
Their fully carpeted parlor was suited with a brand-new matching satin brocatelle settee and parlor chairs, their curtains were black Chantilly lace, and their walls were covered with paintings of peaceful wooded and mountain landscapes.
It was about that time that my brother Jean came to Venice with Guarienti, a converted Jew, a great judge of paintings, who was travelling at the expense of His Majesty the King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony.