oil painting

noun

1. the art or technique of painting with oil colors.
2. a painting executed in oil colors.

oil painting

noun

1. a picture painted with oil paints
2. the art or process of painting with oil paints
3. he's no oil painting informal.
   he is not good-looking

Other Words From

• oil painter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of oil painting¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

What Norman Rockwell was to oil painting, Archie Andrews was to comic books.

From The Daily Beast

The two-day pop-up auction, which concludes Thursday evening, has the price for the "vandalized" oil painting at over $310,000.

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The cuffs had flecks from every good or bad oil painting I did.

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We see flashes of a marble bust, a tasteful oil painting, and a modest lamp.

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Take, for example, the Magritte nail I got from Raquel, which was a complete replica of the artist's oil painting The Son of Man.

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At one end was the head of a girl, that they called "Emeline," and at the other was an oil-painting of a cat.

From Project Gutenberg

That this is not a necessary attendant on oil-painting, we have abundant instances in more modern painters.

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It was a small oil painting, dark with dirt and age, and much of the detail lost in a general blackness.

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Andrea del Sarto is seen here in his highest glory of oil-painting.

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Oil painting in the Amsterdam Exchange building representing Mercurius.

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Related Words

• art
• canvas
• composition
• depiction
• landscape
• mural
• picture
• portrait
• sketch