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Another word for painting

painting Synonyms

painting

n.

A work of art
oil painting, water color, abstract design, landscape, cityscape, seascape, composition, sketch, portrait, portrayal, picture, likeness, representation, art work, canvas, mural, depiction, delineation; see also art 3.
Schools of painting include: primitive, Romanesque, Medieval, Florentine, Sienese, Flemish, Venetian, Mannerist, Dutch, Spanish, French, tableau de genre (French), pre-Raphaelite, Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Neoimpressionism, plein air (French), Realism, Fauvism, primitivism, Naturalism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, pop, op.
The act of applying paint
enameling, covering, coating, varnishing, decorating, calcimining, daubing, splashing, brushing, airbrushing, the brush*; see also art 2.

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High, on the walls of which are the original painting, by William Henry Powell (1823-1879), of O.
Rogers, the first president; Boston University (chartered in 1869; Methodist Episcopal; co-educational); the New England Conservatory of Music (co-educational; private; 1867, incorporated 1880), the largest in the United States, having 2400 students in 1905-1906; the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy (1852); the Massachusetts Normal Art School (1873); the School of Drawing and Painting (1876) of the Museum of Fine Arts; Boston College (1860), Roman Catholic, but open to all denominations; St John's Theological Seminary (1880), Roman Catholic; Simmons College (1899) for women, and several departments of Harvard University.
I didn't want you to see the painting until it was done.
Evelyn's gaze fell to the painting again.
The beginnings of a school of wall painting also go back to the Middle Minoan period, and metal technique and such arts as gem engraving show great advance.

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