as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
hung a beautiful oil painting of the bay on the living room wall
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Recent Examples of oil painting
Past the violin was an oil painting of the child Mozart entertaining nobles at the Maison du Temple.
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
There remained his oil paintings and the many books marked by his handwriting in the margins—now mere traces of him.
—Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
The 10 oil paintings, which are on the 18-meter-high (60-foot-high) ceilings of the renowned Burgtheater in Austria’s capital, are being restored because of water damage.
—ABC News, 5 May 2026
Oil Landscapes Few things add warmth and a bit of history to a space the way that an antique oil painting does, and that’s exactly why Mississippi designer Melanie Bryant searches for them.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
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Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
There remained his oil paintings and the many books marked by his handwriting in the margins—now mere traces of him.
—Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
The 10 oil paintings, which are on the 18-meter-high (60-foot-high) ceilings of the renowned Burgtheater in Austria’s capital, are being restored because of water damage.
—ABC News, 5 May 2026
Oil Landscapes Few things add warmth and a bit of history to a space the way that an antique oil painting does, and that’s exactly why Mississippi designer Melanie Bryant searches for them.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oil painting
Noun
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Baer beautifully evokes paintings inspired by the work of outsider artist Henry Darger.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Adam and Eve After Cranach, 1971, an acrylic diptych modeled on Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1526 painting of the titular couple.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The Scolding, 1965, a claustrophobic portrait of jaundiced and blotchy figures watching a contretemps, has some of the unsettling atmosphere of James Ensor’s 1890 canvas The Intrigue, in which a clutch of masked figures presses in on the viewer.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Undoubtedly Oslo’s most attractive contemporary hangout for summer, watching color-shifting cloudscapes and islands blur like a Munch canvas from the rooftop terrace.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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“Oil painting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oil%20painting. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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