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's no oil painting 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

They were also replicated, in several series of frankly undistinguished oil paintings that have turned up all over Europe, and more appealingly in other media too.

From Time

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.

From Essence.com

Specialized microbes have been set loose on everything from centuries-old frescoes to oil paintings to massive cathedral walls, all in an effort to clean and restore the original glory of these pieces of cultural heritage.

From Popular-Science

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.

From Quartz

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Oil painting in the Amsterdam Exchange building representing Mercurius.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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