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/pˈeɪntɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of applying paint to a surface
you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush -
the occupation of a house painter
house painting was the only craft he knew -
graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
he bought the painting as an investment
his pictures hang in the Louvre
a small painting by Picasso -
creating a picture with paints
he studied painting and sculpture for many years
How To Use painting In A Sentence
- Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
- A good example of such a costly vessel incorporating the figure of Neptune with his trident is shown in the Kalf painting in Plate XI.
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum
- The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
- To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
- Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
- There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.