painter
IPA: pˈeɪntɝ
noun
- An artist who paints pictures.
- A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
- (obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
- (nautical) A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
- (Southern US) A mountain lion.
- A surname transferred from the common noun.
- A town in Accomack County, Virginia.
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Examples of "painter" in Sentences
- Well, if the painter hath not dissembled in it -- the _painter_?
- The painter is still in her beginning and has never had an exhibition.
- Bouguereau was a French painter from the 19th Century; very academic, very traditional, very romantic.
- IRMA STERN "Bahora Girl," 1945, Estimate: $950,000 to $1.4 million Ms. Stern's skill as a portrait painter is evident here.
- This Dutch post-Impressionist painter is probably best known, by the general public, as the deeply depressed man who sliced off his ear and sent it to a prostitute that he was in love with.
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
- I've always admired Neel for pursuing portraiture in an age when representative art was deemed irrelevant, when everyone was chasing after Abstract Expressionism, when it was claimed the camera had "freed" the painter from the "tyranny of realism."
- But I _particularly_ and _expressly request_ that it be kept in a private room to be shown _only_ to friends and relations, and that I _may never be mentioned as the painter; _ and, moreover, that no _artist_ or _miniature painter_ be allowed to see it.
- The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements.
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