noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a painting hangs in a gallery
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Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a writing/painting/dancing etc competition
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Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
baroque music/architecture/paintings etc
oil painting
wall painting
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abstract
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Several large abstract paintings shout at her.
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The foyer and staircase are hung with Mondrian-inspired abstract paintings .
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His hatred of abstract painting - even of people like Jackson Pollock and Nicholson.
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The seating was low and yielding, the decoration largely subordinate to a vast abstract oil painting on the longest wall.
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A good abstract painting is an experiment I don't have to conduct because some one has done it for me.
contemporary
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I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings .
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Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
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A duvet cover which looks like a contemporary painting , plain bright curtains and the whole effect softened with swooping net drapes.
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I am going to be very interested to see whether this exhibition has an influence on contemporary painting .
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The influence of Cézanne on contemporary painting was renewed and strengthened by two enormously important exhibitions held in 1907.
cubist
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This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent.
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Braque who had been responsible in 1908 for the introduction of musical iconography into Cubist painting was furthermore seriously interested in music.
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They have recently exhibited paintings which they call Cubist paintings.
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In the work of Picasso and Braque it ushered in a new phase of Cubist painting .
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The Demoiselles is not, strictly speaking, a Cubist painting .
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They mark also the final phase of the first period in Cubist painting .
early
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He ritually destroyed his early paintings - a cremation at a mortuary, no less - in 1966.
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His audiences seemed delighted with the new game of discovering the errors in earlier paintings .
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Acquired by bequest in 1921, it used to be considered one of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest early Northern paintings .
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Here there are some fine early sacred paintings .
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In the early 70s his paintings were the kind of thing everyone bought as a poster.
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Green introduced some novel ideas perhaps reminiscent of pan pipes in earlier painting .
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Dear Anne Collins, ten years younger than me, taught early Renaissance painting and was just about my only real friend there.
fine
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The result is very fine painting , the product of a finely-tuned sensitivity.
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Though illustrated in colour throughout with many fine paintings by the author the book is nevertheless a touch expensive at £17.99.
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Later, he did a fine painting of his three sisters.
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Inside there are three naves, as there were in the original church, and several fine paintings .
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Dotted with antiques and fine paintings this hotel has the feel of a private home.
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Here there are some fine early sacred paintings .
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A high-arched entrance leads on to a vast grand salon impressively furnished with velvet drapes, fine paintings and classic furniture.
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Elsewhere, there are several fine Verrio ceiling paintings , some exquisite parquet flooring and works by Van Dyck and Reynolds.
large
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Several large abstract paintings shout at her.
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The large silk-screen paintings of the 1960s come very close to the hand-made artifact being composed almost entirely of ready-made images.
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But what held his attention was a large oil painting propped on a chair and fronting the door.
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Cliff Benjamin taps large paintings to portray minutiae and outer space panoramas, all connected to images in the natural world.
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These illustrations then acted as reference material for large oil paintings which were shown in galleries.
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Then in the 1960s Picasso gave an important collection to the city and Miró a large donation of paintings and sculptures.
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He has brought his largest paintings to Monde de l'Art, along with some works specially painted for this particular gallery.
modern
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There was very little clutter in the room; one bold modern painting on the wall.
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This is true for abstract modern theatre, painting , avant-garde music, literature and so forth.
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I know nothing of modern painting , I have seen so little, and it was her passion.
new
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For this new publication, Scully has created eight monochromatic etchings which will be shown with related studies and four new paintings .
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This was a new idea in painting .
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Coat with clear preservative, then prime the new timber before painting the whole of the sill.
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Perhaps by now they've asked some other budding young artist to do a new painting for that wall.
old
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She felt dirtied in her old jeans, and her old student painting smock.
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In other words, the dangers of the Internet are as old as cave paintings .
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Richard Philp, Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art.
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Fine old paintings , marble columns and period furnishings add charm.
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One in the former University Museum, a large neo-classical room, houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes.
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Along the staircase of the Legislative Council building are old paintings of water buffalo and bamboo paddies.
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There were old paintings on the walls.
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This sale of 430 Old Master paintings will concentrate on Venetian works of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
original
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In no more than 25 words explain what an original Keith Hill painting would mean to the winner.
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We asked them to send in their original paintings and songs.
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The original paintings are surrounded by the prints and photographs that derived from them.
■ NOUN
landscape
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November 28 also sees the close of Michael Biberstein's exhibition of recent landscape paintings at the Montenay.
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I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings .
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A personal viewpoint Landscape painting provokes intensely important issues for me.
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John Barrell pursues a similar insight more cautiously in relation to landscape painting and poetry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Richard Wilson, the genius of landscape painting , has a place of honour.
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The result is a satisfying blend of Bonington retrospective and survey of landscape painting in the 1820s.
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By the end of the century landscape painting for its own sake was established.
master
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Richard Philp, Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art.
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One in the former University Museum, a large neo-classical room, houses the Torrie collection of old master paintings and bronzes.
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This sale of 430 Old Master paintings will concentrate on Venetian works of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
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The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings .
oil
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The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings .
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This was the start of my oil painting .
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Side by side were two well-executed oil paintings of the same man.
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Watercolours are easy - they dry; but oil paintings need time.
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But what held his attention was a large oil painting propped on a chair and fronting the door.
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It is a method not unlike scumbling in oil painting .
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Still life inspired by oil paintings of the Old Masters.
wall
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Buildings were consolidated and where necessary roofed, and wall paintings for the first time left in place.
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Part of a wall painting here, a bit of a fresco there.
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Portal sculptures, wall paintings and mosaics created in each church a pictorial record of the Bible stories and teaching.
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It faintly illuminated the interior wall paintings that surrounded them.
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Elizabethan wall paintings and fine Jacobean plasterwork.
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The wall paintings under the cornice are c.1370.
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The tombs are rock hewn chambers, many beautifully decorated by wall paintings in rich colours.
■ VERB
buy
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His work affects me the same way - which is why I bought that painting a few years ago.
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And although he would borrow happily enough to buy painting materials or drinks, he had his own sense of honour.
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Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells.
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Anyone interested in buying a painting should contact the artist directly at the telephone number given.
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As well as buying paintings , furniture and porcelain, Sir Ralph was a keen book collector.
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He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties.
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I've always wondered why some one like Madonna would want to buy one of the paintings in the last show.
decorate
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The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames.
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The tombs are rock hewn chambers, many beautifully decorated by wall paintings in rich colours.
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The downstairs restaurant where breakfast is served, has walls decorated with paintings of people dressed in traditional local costumes.
include
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The current exhibition includes one hundred paintings , drawings, prints, books and manuscript illuminations.
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It includes drawing, painting , design, sculpture and textiles.
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The exhibits will include paintings , graphics, masks, photographs and sculptures by more than 200 prominent and emerging artists nationwide.
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The sides of the casket are richly ornate in artistic enamel work and includes cameo paintings of the Kenilworth and Larne clubhouses.
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Illustrations include many paintings by the pre-eminent, or at least inescapable, Civil War artist Mort Kuntsler.
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These options include drawing and painting skills, two-dimensional design, ceramics, fabric crafts, and fashion.
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The ambitious show includes paintings in oils and acrylics, and monotypes on paper.
sell
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Zborowski took his words literally and was alarmed that Modi had sold his paintings himself.
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Dan, have you sold any paintings this week?
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In 1846 he set up Goupil, Vibert et Compagnie, which sold prints, paintings and drawings.
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Mrs Ruben, a Washington area resident since 1962, displayed and sold paintings at local galleries.
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And Mr Sullivan says he has no plans to sell the painting ... for at least the time being.
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Mr Cross also denied that Mr Bond was trying to sell the painting himself.
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But I didn't sell my first painting you know until 1975.
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Then he went on to complain that even business was bad, as he had sold only two small paintings .
show
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Raab is showing key paintings of the last two years until 9 January.
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She showed me her recent paintings .
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Throughout the month, the Galerie Beaubourg is showing twelve paintings by François Boisrond.
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Margarett showed thirty paintings and a group of watercolors and pastels.
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Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover, Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale.
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The photo reproduced here shows how perfectly the painting was aged by the artist.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
he's/she's no oil painting
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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painting and decorating
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a painting of the Grand Canal in Venice by Canaletto
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an exhibition of paintings by French artists
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an oil painting of Columbus
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Dali did several paintings of his wife.
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Gaugin is famous for his paintings of native women on the Pacific island of Tahiti.
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He's taking a class in drawing and painting .
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The museum has an impressive collection of early 20th century American paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I always regret those paintings very much.
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I try to avoid objects which limit a painting in space and time.
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If it rains, the programme will be aerobics, papiermâché mask making, craft work and painting etc.
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The sight before him was reminiscent of a modernistic painting of Hell.
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This painting has become a veritable obsession and he has returned to it repeatedly over the past thirty years.
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This perhaps explains the strident colors which characterize his paintings as certainly it suggests the source of their extreme verisimilitude.