Synonyms of paintings

paintings

noun

plural of painting

as in canvases

a picture created with oil paint

the Mona Lisa is a haunting painting of a woman with a most mysterious smile

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canvases
• murals
• frescoes
• watercolors
• oils
• drawings
• panoramas
• masterpieces
• oil paintings
• etchings
• sketches
• acrylics
• gouaches
• diptychs
• pastels
• aquarelles
• triptychs
• finger paintings
• temperas
• distempers
• showpieces
• pièces de résistance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of paintings

The open-air rock shelters and towering sandstone cliffs are living canvases of ancient paintings from the Upper Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic (50,000–8,000 bce). — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

The consignment is expected to anchor the upcoming auction season and includes paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

She is additionally charged with stewarding the museum’s holding of paintings and drawings, including the Fisher Collection, and will work to foster the museum’s audience and community engagement. — News Desk, Artforum, 13 Aug. 2026

Also, the figurative paintings hanging in the ground-floor corridor, by Portuguese artist Leonor Trindade Sousa, are for sale. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026

And while museums are bursting at the seams with paintings of naked women, real women are thrown out of museums for wearing too little (a low-cut dress) or too much (a niqab). — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Roth says the purpose of the piece was to meld with the paintings. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026

There are antique lighting fixtures, handmade wooden carvings of wild cats, myriad conch shells, and paintings of seemingly every size and artistic style imaginable. — Sarah Jackson valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026