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单词 painting
释义
paintingpaint‧ing /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ ●●● S3 W2 noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • painting and decorating
  • a painting of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto
  • an exhibition of paintings by French artists
  • an oil painting of Columbus
  • Dali did several paintings of his wife.
  • Gaugin is famous for his paintings of native women on the Pacific island of Tahiti.
  • He's taking a class in drawing and painting.
  • The museum has an impressive collection of early 20th century American paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I always regret those paintings very much.
  • I try to avoid objects which limit a painting in space and time.
  • If it rains, the programme will be aerobics, papiermâché mask making, craft work and painting etc.
  • The sight before him was reminiscent of a modernistic painting of Hell.
  • This painting has become a veritable obsession and he has returned to it repeatedly over the past thirty years.
  • This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like: · a picture of a horse· He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc: · We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
a picture that is drawn quickly: · I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
a picture made using paint: · The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.· Picasso did several paintings of her.
a picture of a person: · The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains: · Constable painted mainly landscapes.
a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: · A cartoon in the New York Times showed the president talking to Osama Bin Laden.
a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story: · Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way: · He is famous for his caricatures of politicians.
a picture in a book: · The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration: · old movie posters· There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture: · a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you: · He produced some memorable images.· a beautiful image· Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine: · We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.
Longman Language Activatora picture that you paint or draw
a painting or drawing: · Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' is one of the most famous pictures in the world.· an early picture by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monetpicture of: · There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall.somebody's picture (=a painting or drawing of someone): · The house belonged to the Duke of Wellington, and his picture hangs in the hall.draw/paint a picture: · I didn't know the word in Japanese so I drew a little picture.do a picture spoken (=draw or paint a picture): · Daisy did a lovely picture of a cat at school today.
a picture that someone has painted: · an exhibition of paintings by French artists· The museum has an impressive collection of early 20th century American paintings.painting of: · a painting of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto· Gaugin is famous for his paintings of native women on the Pacific island of Tahiti.do a painting: · Dali did several paintings of his wife.
a picture that has been drawn using a pen or pencil: · The classroom was bright and cheerful, with childrens' drawings on the walls.drawing of: · On the wall was a drawing of a woman's head by Matisse.do a drawing: · Degas did a series of drawings of dancers at the ballet school in Paris.
a picture consisting of a few lines drawn quickly with a pen or pencil: sketch of: · I thought your sketches of the garden were very attractive.do/make a sketch: · The architect did a sketch of how the building will look when it's finished.quick/rough sketch (=a sketch done very quickly): · Gabriella did a quick sketch of her baby daughter.
a picture in a book, which shows people or events that have been mentioned in the book: · The new encyclopedia is full of color illustrations and photographs.· Who did the illustrations for the book? They're lovely.
a very large picture or photograph printed on paper, which you put on a wall for decoration: poster of: · Anna's bedroom wall was covered in posters of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person: portrait of: · A full-length portrait of the Queen hung on the wall.paint a portrait: · The artist Hans Holbein was best known for painting portraits.self-portrait (=a picture of the artist done by the artist): · Rembrandt's "Self-portrait with feather in cap"· A series of 43 self-portraits by Greek-born American Lucas Samaras (b. 1936) have been donated to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
a painting or photograph showing an area of countryside: · "What kind of photographs do you take?" "Mostly landscapes, and some portraits."landscape painter/artist/photographer: · Constable is probably England's most famous landscape artist.
a small detailed drawing, especially one which is done in order to prepare for a larger picture, or as part of a series of drawings of the same kind of subject: study of: · Renoir did several studies of small plants and flowers.study for: · The exhibition includes a series of studies by Picasso for his painting Guernica.
a picture of someone without any clothes on: · To be honest, I prefer his flower pictures to his nudes.· a nude by Picasso
WORD SETS
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Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Can you help me hang this painting (=put it on a wall)?
British English
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
· Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Several large abstract paintings shout at her.· The foyer and staircase are hung with Mondrian-inspired abstract paintings.· His hatred of abstract painting - even of people like Jackson Pollock and Nicholson.· The seating was low and yielding, the decoration largely subordinate to a vast abstract oil painting on the longest wall.· A good abstract painting is an experiment I don't have to conduct because some one has done it for me.
· I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings.· Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.· A duvet cover which looks like a contemporary painting, plain bright curtains and the whole effect softened with swooping net drapes.· I am going to be very interested to see whether this exhibition has an influence on contemporary painting.· The influence of Cézanne on contemporary painting was renewed and strengthened by two enormously important exhibitions held in 1907.
· This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent.· Braque who had been responsible in 1908 for the introduction of musical iconography into Cubist painting was furthermore seriously interested in music.· They have recently exhibited paintings which they call Cubist paintings.· In the work of Picasso and Braque it ushered in a new phase of Cubist painting.· The Demoiselles is not, strictly speaking, a Cubist painting.· They mark also the final phase of the first period in Cubist painting.
· He ritually destroyed his early paintings - a cremation at a mortuary, no less - in 1966.· His audiences seemed delighted with the new game of discovering the errors in earlier paintings.· Acquired by bequest in 1921, it used to be considered one of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest early Northern paintings.· Here there are some fine early sacred paintings.· In the early 70s his paintings were the kind of thing everyone bought as a poster.· Green introduced some novel ideas perhaps reminiscent of pan pipes in earlier painting.· Dear Anne Collins, ten years younger than me, taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there.
· The result is very fine painting, the product of a finely-tuned sensitivity.· Though illustrated in colour throughout with many fine paintings by the author the book is nevertheless a touch expensive at £17.99.· Later, he did a fine painting of his three sisters.· Inside there are three naves, as there were in the original church, and several fine paintings.· Dotted with antiques and fine paintings this hotel has the feel of a private home.· Here there are some fine early sacred paintings.· A high-arched entrance leads on to a vast grand salon impressively furnished with velvet drapes, fine paintings and classic furniture.· Elsewhere, there are several fine Verrio ceiling paintings, some exquisite parquet flooring and works by Van Dyck and Reynolds.
· Several large abstract paintings shout at her.· The large silk-screen paintings of the 1960s come very close to the hand-made artifact being composed almost entirely of ready-made images.· But what held his attention was a large oil painting propped on a chair and fronting the door.· Cliff Benjamin taps large paintings to portray minutiae and outer space panoramas, all connected to images in the natural world.· These illustrations then acted as reference material for large oil paintings which were shown in galleries.· Then in the 1960s Picasso gave an important collection to the city and Miró a large donation of paintings and sculptures.· He has brought his largest paintings to Monde de l'Art, along with some works specially painted for this particular gallery.
· There was very little clutter in the room; one bold modern painting on the wall.· This is true for abstract modern theatre, painting, avant-garde music, literature and so forth.· I know nothing of modern painting, I have seen so little, and it was her passion.
· For this new publication, Scully has created eight monochromatic etchings which will be shown with related studies and four new paintings.· This was a new idea in painting.· Coat with clear preservative, then prime the new timber before painting the whole of the sill.· Perhaps by now they've asked some other budding young artist to do a new painting for that wall.
· She felt dirtied in her old jeans, and her old student painting smock.· In other words, the dangers of the Internet are as old as cave paintings.· Richard Philp, Old Master paintings, drawings and works of art.· Fine old paintings, marble columns and period furnishings add charm.· One in the former University Museum, a large neo-classical room, houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes.· Along the staircase of the Legislative Council building are old paintings of water buffalo and bamboo paddies.· There were old paintings on the walls.· This sale of 430 Old Master paintings will concentrate on Venetian works of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
· In no more than 25 words explain what an original Keith Hill painting would mean to the winner.· We asked them to send in their original paintings and songs.· The original paintings are surrounded by the prints and photographs that derived from them.
NOUN
· November 28 also sees the close of Michael Biberstein's exhibition of recent landscape paintings at the Montenay.· I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings.· A personal viewpoint Landscape painting provokes intensely important issues for me.· John Barrell pursues a similar insight more cautiously in relation to landscape painting and poetry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.· Richard Wilson, the genius of landscape painting, has a place of honour.· The result is a satisfying blend of Bonington retrospective and survey of landscape painting in the 1820s.· By the end of the century landscape painting for its own sake was established.
· Richard Philp, Old Master paintings, drawings and works of art.· One in the former University Museum, a large neo-classical room, houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes.· This sale of 430 Old Master paintings will concentrate on Venetian works of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.· The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings.
· The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings.· This was the start of my oil painting.· Side by side were two well-executed oil paintings of the same man.· Watercolours are easy - they dry; but oil paintings need time.· But what held his attention was a large oil painting propped on a chair and fronting the door.· It is a method not unlike scumbling in oil painting.· Still life inspired by oil paintings of the Old Masters.
· Buildings were consolidated and where necessary roofed, and wall paintings for the first time left in place.· Part of a wall painting here, a bit of a fresco there.· Portal sculptures, wall paintings and mosaics created in each church a pictorial record of the Bible stories and teaching.· It faintly illuminated the interior wall paintings that surrounded them.· Elizabethan wall paintings and fine Jacobean plasterwork.· The wall paintings under the cornice are c.1370.· The tombs are rock hewn chambers, many beautifully decorated by wall paintings in rich colours.
VERB
· His work affects me the same way - which is why I bought that painting a few years ago.· And although he would borrow happily enough to buy painting materials or drinks, he had his own sense of honour.· Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells.· Anyone interested in buying a painting should contact the artist directly at the telephone number given.· As well as buying paintings, furniture and porcelain, Sir Ralph was a keen book collector.· He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties.· I've always wondered why some one like Madonna would want to buy one of the paintings in the last show.
· The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames.· The tombs are rock hewn chambers, many beautifully decorated by wall paintings in rich colours.· The downstairs restaurant where breakfast is served, has walls decorated with paintings of people dressed in traditional local costumes.
· The current exhibition includes one hundred paintings, drawings, prints, books and manuscript illuminations.· It includes drawing, painting, design, sculpture and textiles.· The exhibits will include paintings, graphics, masks, photographs and sculptures by more than 200 prominent and emerging artists nationwide.· The sides of the casket are richly ornate in artistic enamel work and includes cameo paintings of the Kenilworth and Larne clubhouses.· Illustrations include many paintings by the pre-eminent, or at least inescapable, Civil War artist Mort Kuntsler.· These options include drawing and painting skills, two-dimensional design, ceramics, fabric crafts, and fashion.· The ambitious show includes paintings in oils and acrylics, and monotypes on paper.
· Zborowski took his words literally and was alarmed that Modi had sold his paintings himself.· Dan, have you sold any paintings this week?· In 1846 he set up Goupil, Vibert et Compagnie, which sold prints, paintings and drawings.· Mrs Ruben, a Washington area resident since 1962, displayed and sold paintings at local galleries.· And Mr Sullivan says he has no plans to sell the painting ... for at least the time being.· Mr Cross also denied that Mr Bond was trying to sell the painting himself.· But I didn't sell my first painting you know until 1975.· Then he went on to complain that even business was bad, as he had sold only two small paintings.
· Raab is showing key paintings of the last two years until 9 January.· She showed me her recent paintings.· Throughout the month, the Galerie Beaubourg is showing twelve paintings by François Boisrond.· Margarett showed thirty paintings and a group of watercolors and pastels.· Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover, Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale.· The photo reproduced here shows how perfectly the painting was aged by the artist.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounpaintpainterpaintingrepaintverbpaintrepaintadjectivepainterly
1[countable] a painted picture that you put on a wall for people to see:  a collection of valuable paintingspainting of There was a large painting of his father on the wall. Can you help me hang this painting (=put it on a wall)? oil painting2[uncountable] the act or skill of making a picture, using paints:  Degas’ style of painting the Cubist school of painting (=a particular style used by a group of people)3[uncountable] the work of covering a wall, house etc with paintpainting and decorating British English
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