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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Painting is the practice of applying paint , pigment , color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush , but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes , can be used. Painting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "that which is painted, a painting," verbal noun from paint (v.). From mid-15c. as "art of depicting by means of paint."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a painting hangs in a gallery ▪ Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada. a writing/painting/dancing etc competition ▪ Greg won the school public-speaking competition. baroque music/architecture/paintings ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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)
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.