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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. Eric Carle:

   I was used to pretty paintings with a mountain in the background. Although I was shocked, I always carried that day in my heart.

2. Silvano Vinceti:

   We have used all the paintings in which Leonardo used Salai as a model and compared them to the 'Mona Lisa' and certain details correspond perfectly; so he used two models and added creative details which came from his own imagination, i believe that this goes with a long-time fascination of Leonardo's, that is, the subject of androgyny. In other words, for Leonardo, the perfect person was a combination of a man and a woman.

3. Walls Joby Barron:

   These paintings are valuable, museum quality, and part of our national treasure.

4. Sebastien Allard:

   This is an exceptional work, legendary in Rembrandt's repertoire. This type of full-body portrait did not exist in Holland in the 17th century. they are among the most valuable paintings of the era.

5. Andre Magnin:

   These artists, who had begun as billboard painters, decorators and illustrators, had set up their studio on the busy streets of Kinshasa so that their canvases would be seen by everyone, i was struck by the freedom, variety, humor, and beauty of the paintings that were passing before my eyes.

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings