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Painting

of Paint

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Narrower term 20

Abstraction 76% connected

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

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Daub 76% connected

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Distemper 76% connected

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

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Fresco 76% connected

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.

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Icon 76% connected

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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Illumination 76% connected

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

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Impasto 76% connected

The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors a…

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Landscape 76% connected

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

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Miniature 76% connected

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

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Monochrome 76% connected

A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

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Mural 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

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Nude 76% connected

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

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Seascape 76% connected

A picture representing a scene at sea.

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Spatter 76% connected

To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat;…

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Spattering 76% connected

of Spatter

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Splash 76% connected

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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Splashing 76% connected

of Splash

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Stereochromy 76% connected

A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion o…

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Tanka 76% connected

A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

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Waterscape 76% connected

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.

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Broader term 6

Application 76% connected

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Art 76% connected

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the endi…

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Coating 76% connected

of Coat

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Covering 76% connected

of Cover

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Derivationally related 2

Paint 74% connected

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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Paint 74% connected

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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Containing whole 2

Building 70% connected

of Build

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Construction 70% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Synonym 1

Picture 92% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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