painting
IPA: pˈeɪntɪŋ
noun
- (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
- (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.
- (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.
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Examples of "painting" in Sentences
- The tagline under the painting translates as 'evidence of hell' - faithmouse [at] yahoo (dot-here) com
- "BREEZY DAY" is the title painting in a news series of paintings by Julia Waco that will be on display Portland's Attic Gallery Feb. 5-March 5.
- The title painting, "Only Gods could survive" 2006 which depicts what looks like a Tarzan figure facing a mountainous past, or future, reminds me a little of William Blake.
- Some people believe the lady in the painting is the wife of Florence banker, some believe she is the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, or some believe that she is a man in disguise.
- Take, for example, the term painting "plein air," a French expression meaning "open air" and used colloquially by the French for camping and outdoor sports that refers to creating a work of art outside.
- I felt it a totally inappropriate choice by the publishers given the girl in the painting is about the same age as Lolita (much younger than her 14 years in the movie adaptation) and is cropped down version of a painting which originally included a cat.
- The rule is so stern that all delight in mere incidental beauty, which painting often triumphs in, is wholly forbidden to sculpture; -- for instance, in _painting_ the branch of a tree, you may rightly represent and enjoy the lichens and moss on it, but a sculptor must not touch one of them: they are inessential to the tree's life, -- he must give the flow and bending of the branch only, else he does not enough "see Pallas" in it.
- The rule is so stern, that all delight in mere incidental beauty, which painting often triumphs in, is wholly forbidden to sculpture; -- for instance, in _painting_ the branch of a tree, you may rightly represent and enjoy the lichens and moss on it, but a sculptor must not touch one of them: they are inessential to the tree's life, -- he must give the flow and bending of the branch only, else he does not enough 'see Pallas' in it.
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