Definition of Painting

Paint´ing
n.1.The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
2.(Fine Arts) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
3.Color laid on; paint.
4.A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.


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acrylic painting, aquarelle, calcimining, canvas, coating, coloring, covering, drawing, easel-picture, enameling, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, finger painting, flower painting, fresco, fresco painting, genre painting, gilding, glazing, glossing, gouache, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, grisaille, illumination, impasto, japanning, monochrome, mural painting, oil, oil painting, photography, picturization, portraiture, poster painting, priming, printing, printmaking, relief-carving, shellacking, staining, stippling, tempera, the brush, undercoating, varnishing, wash, wash drawing, water, whitewashing

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