painting

Roget category 556

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› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
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#556. Painting

noun

painting — depicting — drawing etc. v. — design — perspective, sciagraphy^†, skiagraphy^† — chiaroscuro etc. (light) 420 — composition — treatment.
historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting — landscape painting, marine painting — still life, flower painting, scene painting — scenography^†.
school, style — the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture — ornamental art etc. 847.
monochrome, polychrome — grisaille [Fr.].
pallet, palette — easel — brush, pencil, stump — black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel — paint etc. (coloring matter) 428 — watercolor, body color, oil color — oils, oil paint — varnish etc. 356.1, priming — gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass — enamel — encaustic painting — mosaic — tapestry.
photography, heliography, color photography — sun painting — graphics, computer graphics.
picture, painting, piece [Fr.], tableau, canvas — oil painting &c. — fresco, cartoon — easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft — pencil drawing &c., water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink — sketch, outline, study.
photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph — daguerreotype, talbotype^†, calotype^†, heliotype^† — negative, positive — print, glossy print, matte print — enlargement, reduction, life-size print — instant photo, Polaroid photo.
technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome — Polaroid.
portrait etc. (representation) 554 — whole length, full length, half length — kitcat, head — miniature — shade, silhouette — profile.
landscape, seapiece^† — view, scene, prospect — panorama, diorama — still life.
picture gallery, exhibit — studio, atelier — pinacotheca^†.

verb

paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up — color, dead color, wash, varnish — draw in pencil etc. n. — paint in oils etc. n. — stencil — depict etc. (represent) 554.

adjective

painted etc. v. — pictorial, graphic, picturesque.
pencil, oil etc. n..

adverb

in pencil etc. n..

phrase

fecit [Lat.], delineavit [Lat.] — mutum est pictura poema [Lat.].

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