painting
- noun
- /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/
- At the gallery, I admired a stunning painting that depicted a vibrant sunset.
- a landscape painting
- paintings and sculptures
- prints and paintings
And upon first glance, the painting looks fairly good.
- And upon first glance, the painting looks fairly good.
- And but they sold prints of the painting at the auction.
- And sadly, this painting proved to be a forgery.
- I dream my painting and then I paint my dream
- And I'll never forget you had just had all the paintings taken down.
- Every single painting was just black.
- You know, you, you see a painting that brings you to your fucking knees.
- She looks like the corner painting of a beautiful church.
- I don't think that would have any effect on the painting, right, Callum?
Examples
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Fruits and vegetables are featured in many of Aertsen's later paintings with market subjects.
Academic text (2011) -
That was my dadi's favorite painting.
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Every single painting was just black.
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We sign at the top of the painting, while they sign at the bottom.
Academic text (2013) -
I want to see your paintings, your most recent ones.
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Are those both paintings on those shelves?
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I'll add a few new paintings to my gallery.
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One of his paintings just got in the Element City Museum's permanent collection.
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And sadly, this painting proved to be a forgery.
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He couldn't sell a painting while he was alive, and now they're worth $30 million.
Synonyms
An image like a drawing or photograph that shows something
A picture made by hand with a pen or pencil
A painting made directly on a wall or ceiling
A painting or sculpture that shows an artist's idea
A painting done on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling
A picture made with oil paint on canvas or panel
A painting that uses shapes and colors instead of realistic pictures
A picture made directly on a wall as decoration
A picture that shows natural scenery like hills, trees, and rivers
A picture made by arranging fine colored sand on a flat surface
A style of abstract art in which artists drip or pour paint onto a canvas
A painting that shows a naked person as the main subject
A way of painting using fingers to spread paint or a picture done that way
A decorative painting that hangs above a sofa to match the room
A kind of art that shows ordinary people doing everyday activities
A painting made with bright, strong colors that looks lively
Compounds
Work that covers the inside or outside of a house with color to protect and decorate it
- Specialized
A style of abstract painting where the artist moves and applies paint in big, energetic movements
- Neologism
A digital image made by software to look like a picture painted with oil paint
How Finished
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Painting comes from the word paint, which means 'to put colour on something' and over time the same word also came to mean the picture made with paint. So a painting is a picture or artistic composition created by applying paint to canvas, paper, or a wall.