English > painting: 4 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface. |
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| Examples | - "a small painting by Picasso"
- "he bought the painting as an investment"
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| Synonym | picture |
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| Narrower | abstraction | An abstract painting |
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| cityscape | painting depicting a city or urban area |
| daub | An unskillful painting |
| distemper | A painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder |
| finger-painting | A painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
| icon, ikon | A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel |
| landscape | painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery |
| miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) |
| monochrome | painting done in a range of tones of a single color |
| mural, wall painting | A painting that is applied to a wall surface |
| nude, nude painting | A painting of a naked human figure |
| oil painting | A picture painted with oil paints |
| pentimento | The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age / age) |
| sand painting | A painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho) |
| seascape, waterscape | A painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) |
| semi-abstraction | A semiabstract painting |
| still life | A painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers |
| tanka | A Tibetan religious painting on fabric |
| trompe l'oeil | A painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality |
| watercolor, water-color, watercolour, water-colour | A painting produced with watercolors / watercolors |
| Broader | graphic art | The arts of drawing or painting or printmaking |
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| Spanish | cuadro, imagen, lienzo, pintado, pintura |
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| Catalan | pintura, quadre, tela |
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| Verbs | paint | make a painting / painting of |
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| paint | make a painting / painting |
