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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. informalhe is not good-looking

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of oil painting1

First recorded in 1775–85
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You learn all of it — art drawing, oil painting, mixed media.

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Turner's first ever exhibited oil painting is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years.

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But he doesn’t bother to mount most of his oil paintings, leaving them stacked against the walls of his 16th century palazzo like dollar records at a flea market.

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In the front hall oil paintings stacked against a wall, waiting to be hung.

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Edward Hopper gave us the disquieting 1957 oil painting “Western Motel.”

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