| 单词 | painting |
| 释义 | painting (once / 153 pages) n If you want to study painting, go to art school. If that doesn’t work out, maybe you can get a job painting houses. Then you can paint a house purple or paint a picture, which is called a painting. Slapping a coat of paint on your apartment walls is painting, but so is creating a masterpiece like Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or maybe even C.M. Coolidge’s “Dogs Playing Poker.” The picture that results from your painting experiments is also called a painting. The Latin root of painting, pingere, means "to paint," but also "to stain, embroider, or tattoo." WORD FAMILYpainting: paintings+/paint: paintable, painted, painter, painting, paints, repaint/paintable: unpaintable/painted: unpainted/painter: painterly, painters/repaint: repainted, repainting, repaints USAGE EXAMPLESThis work, painted in 1618, is really about the visual puzzle it presents, but this is packaged in the guise of a religious painting. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) A Chinese immigrant, Mr Wong's vibrant paintings captured Walt Disney's eye and became the basis of the film's distinct style. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) A lot of intricate craft pieces, artwork, paintings. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1n creating a picture with paints he studied painting and sculpture for many years Hypo|Hyper distemper a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery frescoa durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster impastopainting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible oil paintingthe art or method of painting with oil paints water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercolourthe art or technique of painting with watercolors art, artistic creation, artistic production the creation of beautiful or significant things beaux arts, fine artsthe study and creation of visual works of art 2n the act of applying paint to a surface you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush Hypo|Hyper spray painting applying paint with a sprayer spatter, spattering, splash, splashing, splatteringthe act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface finger-paintingpainting by using the fingers to spread the paint application, coating, covering the work of applying something 3n graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface a small painting by Picasso he bought the painting as an investment Syn|Hypo|Hyper picture abstraction an abstract painting cityscapepainting depicting a city or urban area dauban unskillful painting distempera painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder finger-paintinga painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers icon, ikona conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church landscapepainting depicting an expanse of natural scenery illumination, miniaturepainting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) monochromepainting done in a range of tones of a single color mural, wall paintinga painting that is applied to a wall surface nude, nude paintinga painting of a naked human figure oil paintinga picture painted with oil paints pentimentothe reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age) sand paintinga painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background seascape, waterscapea painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) semi-abstractiona semiabstract painting still lifea painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers tankaa Tibetan religious painting on fabric trompe l'oeila painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality water-color, water-colour, watercolor, watercoloura painting produced with watercolors canvas, canvassan oil painting on canvas fabric frescoa mural done with watercolors on wet plaster gouachea watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum wash, wash drawinga watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other graphic art the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking 4n the occupation of a house painter Syn|Hyper house painting craft, trade the skilled practice of a practical occupation |
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