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

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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. Rudolf Staechelin:

   It is one of the paintings Gauguin made when he went to Tahiti for the first time, it was a happy painting.

3. Ammar Abu Shamalla:

   We wanted to display our paintings to the public in vital places... Amid the coronavirus, we also wanted to make living.

4. Geoff Kelly:

   These thieves were not sophisticated criminals, as evidenced by the fact that two of the paintings were cut out of their frames, the significant value of the stolen artwork seems to have elevated the status of the thieves to master criminals but that's a specious assumption.

5. Tom Ruggio:

   It's pretty fascinating. So, not only do we get a strong -- pretty much as I call a slam-dunk -- attribution because of the connecting paintings, but we also get a look at its process.

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