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noun
the art or technique of painting with oil colors.
a painting executed in oil colors.
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Origin of oil painting First recorded in1775–85
OTHER WORDS FROM oil painting oil painter, noun
Words nearby oil painting oil of the sick ,
oil of turpentine ,
oil of vitriol ,
oil of wintergreen ,
oil paint ,
oil painting ,
oil palm ,
oil pan ,
oilpaper ,
oil patch ,
oil-plant
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Words related to oil painting art ,
canvas ,
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landscape ,
mural ,
picture ,
portrait ,
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How to use oil painting in a sentence They were also replicated, in several series of frankly undistinguished oil painting s that have turned up all over Europe, and more appealingly in other media too.
On the other hand, original art is non-fungible because you can exchange an oil painting of a donut for a Photoshop painting of a cat and have two completely different items.
Specialized microbes have been set loose on everything from centuries-old frescoes to oil painting s to massive cathedral walls, all in an effort to clean and restore the original glory of these pieces of cultural heritage.
One—a small oil painting on a wood panel depicting the profile of an old man in a hat and cloak—made its way to South Africa in the late 1950s.
The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.
Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.
There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.
Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
Movement to know that she was attired in appropriate costume—short frock, biped continuations and a mannish oil-skin hat.
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British Dictionary definitions for oil painting
noun
a picture painted with oil paints
the art or process of painting with oil paints
he's no oil painting informal he is not good-looking
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