Definitions for PAINTINGS
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1. paintings

   Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature (as in Artivism). A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by religious art. Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, to scenes from the life of Buddha (or other images of Eastern religious origin).

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1. paintingsnoun

   Plural noun of painting.

   The art gallery displayed a variety of different style paintings by different artists.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on June 21, 2016  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'PAINTINGS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2960

How to pronounce PAINTINGS?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PAINTINGS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PAINTINGS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of PAINTINGS in a Sentence

1. Melania Trump:

   Paul Cézanne's work is a celebration, it was perfect timing to have these exquisite paintings in Washington while Brigitte Macron on a outing was in town.

2. Marsha Trattner:

   I forged wheat stalks using various industrial steel types so it became a fun game of reinvention, and I also used images of Van Gogh’s wheat field drawings and paintings as inspiration for creating the whole unit.

3. Josephine Meckseper:

   The flag is a collage of an American flag and one of my dripped paintings which resembles the contours of the United States, i divided the shape of the country in two for the flag design to reflect a deeply polarized country in which a president has openly bragged about harassing women and is withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol and UN Human Rights Council.

4. Matthias Wivel:

   They're touchstone paintings in the development of European painting, they were incredibly famous in their day and indeed inspired artists for generations.

5. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings