daub
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- noun
- /dɔb/
:
pintarrajo
- The art critic dismissed the exhibition as full of poor quality daubs that lacked any real technique.
Examples
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Daubs of color glimmer against dark backgrounds in works like Still Life With a Bouquet.
Blog text (9) -
It's the ugliest and most off-putting daub of a portrait I've ever seen, German Expressionists notwithstanding.
Blog text (31) -
It's an awful daub really.
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Yes, I sent her to Oxford to get an education, and all she comes back with is a passion for donkey-tailed daubs and modernistic music.
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Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs.
Academic text (2001) -
During our mid-year at art college, Howard and I rented a whitewashed daub and thatch cottage from Mrs. Eileen O'Connor.
Fiction book (2002) -
Everyone laughed at the child's daub on the canvas, which looked more like a messy scribble than a masterpiece.
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Although the gallery featured several stunning pieces, one daub stood out for its careless brushwork and lack of detail.
Synonyms
A rough, badly made painting or a thick smear of paint
Antonyms
Compounds
How Skillful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Daub comes from an old French word meaning 'to smear', so imagine a careless painter who daubs paint on a canvas; like a big dab, it becomes a sloppy picture.