noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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abstract
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But the abstract painters don't want to produce decoration, they want to produce High Art.
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Nadler, a serious abstract painter , displays a small gem at Davis Dominguez.
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The fourth dimension also played a part in uniting a number of abstract painters and sculptors in the inter-war period.
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Sean Scully is one senior abstract painter whose work is both personal and ostentatious.
amateur
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The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success.
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Indeed, he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends.
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He is also known as an amateur painter .
contemporary
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The market in modern art was not yet developed and contemporary painters rarely had a one-man show.
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Over at Etherton Gallery, three contemporary painters provide three widely divergent interpretations.
famous
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Yet Lowry was a popular hero who, when he died in 1977, was the most famous painter in Britain.
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He was a famous painter once more now, not simply a local eccentric to encounter on the beach.
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The most famous painters , musicians and writers chose to live and work in Venice above all other cities.
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In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters, famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers!
great
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Would they stop a great painter painting just because his eyes were going and his brushwork wasn't as good?
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The great nature painter John James Audubon agreed.
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She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister.
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Bloomsbury said that Cezanne is a great painter .
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In this way modern analytical techniques are providing the basis for greater appreciation of some of the world's greatest painters .
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The progress has been as dynamic, and certainly more precise, than anything produced by those great painters .
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She was not destined to be a great painter but she had the confidence and luck to be a successful one.
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The city was and is home to many great painters , sculptors, poets and composers ... a city of romance.
other
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We've just had a week painting with a group of other painters .
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And no other painter was such an important influence in the formation of Cubism.
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It was terribly interesting to see other painters in action - painters whose work we're familiar with.
young
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A lot of the young painters here started painting very big works because that was the fashion coming from the States.
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It is without my knowledge that certain young painters have made use of my latest researches.
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This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
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landscape
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He's a landscape painter , he's a good influence.
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I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter .
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She shooed it off, vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession.
portrait
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The problem for a portrait painter is the incisiveness of your observation - how deeply you choose to look into your subject.
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She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.
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When this ended, he set himself up first as a portrait painter .
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No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter , his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate.
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This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
■ VERB
become
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As well as looking after your daughters and your home, she has also become a painter .
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How can I ever become a good painter when I know so little geometry and mathematics?
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Mary became a painter , Grace a mathematician.
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In fact, I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college.
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She became a painter and decorator on a government scheme for a year.
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She shooed it off, vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession.
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Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical.
work
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In the evenings after the two painters had been working , they would often stroll towards the café.
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Other painters have worked collaboratively as well.
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Or what if the painter works for other people in his free time in return for cash?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a house painter
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a landscape painter
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Adolf Hitler worked as a house painter in Austria before becoming involved in politics.
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Michelangelo, sculptor, painter , architect, and poet, died in 1564.
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Sir Henry Raeburn, the famous Scots portrait painter
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The painters are upstairs painting the offices at the moment.
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This is by the great Spanish painter , Goya.
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Turner was probably the greatest landscape painter that England has ever produced.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was the chief architect in charge of the then-burgeoning rapid transit system - and it turns out he was also a painter .
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How dare, Lamb demanded, these mere painters inflict their visions of Juliet and Rosalind upon the public?
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Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid.
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One painter says to use latex finish paint.
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The great nature painter John James Audubon agreed.
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Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim.