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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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  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. Addison:

    A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.

  2. Andrew McClellan:

    Any other museum would simply paper over the loss and take down the frames and put something else up, at the Gardner, it's a haunting presence that will only ever be healed by the return of the paintings.

  3. Antonio Paolucci:

    Because I got to see the Sistine Chapel like I had never seen it before, this light allows you to see every little detail of the paintings and at the same time it allows you to grasp and experience the Sistine Chapel as a whole, in its entirety.

  4. Tania Mastrapa:

    I encourage people to seek their property ... but finding movable items like paintings or jewelry is particularly difficult.

  5. Vincent Van Gogh:

    Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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