as in canvases
a picture created with oil paint
the Mona Lisa is a haunting painting of a woman with a most mysterious smile
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Recent Examples of paintings
In store, local shoppers can also browse the plein air paintings by Central Virginia artist Leah Doise.
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Brennan Long, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Noir is a quaint coffee shop where white walls are a canvas for paintings by a rotation of local artists.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Make a beeline for the Pinacoteca di Brera, the venerable art museum containing paintings by masters like Raphael and Caravaggio.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
There’s biodiversity in the different areas, from the Sumi-e ink wash paintings to foraging for mushrooms and fish to the Ainu culture.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Soon, though, Shahn began to doubt whether such pleasant, inoffensive paintings sufficed.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
This receptiveness led to Ockenfels’ favorite pictures from their partnership — inspired by the facial distortions in the paintings of Francis Bacon — in which bendings of glass were employed to warp Bowie’s likeness.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Housing a collection encompassing six decades of Husain’s practice, including paintings, films, tapestries, photographs, poetry, and installations, the museum will be the world’s first and largest devoted to the artist’s work.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The exhibition presents paintings, installations, sculpture, ceramics, and films from several of the university’s departments, including vitrines from the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Brennan Long, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Noir is a quaint coffee shop where white walls are a canvas for paintings by a rotation of local artists.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Make a beeline for the Pinacoteca di Brera, the venerable art museum containing paintings by masters like Raphael and Caravaggio.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
There’s biodiversity in the different areas, from the Sumi-e ink wash paintings to foraging for mushrooms and fish to the Ainu culture.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Soon, though, Shahn began to doubt whether such pleasant, inoffensive paintings sufficed.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
This receptiveness led to Ockenfels’ favorite pictures from their partnership — inspired by the facial distortions in the paintings of Francis Bacon — in which bendings of glass were employed to warp Bowie’s likeness.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Housing a collection encompassing six decades of Husain’s practice, including paintings, films, tapestries, photographs, poetry, and installations, the museum will be the world’s first and largest devoted to the artist’s work.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The exhibition presents paintings, installations, sculpture, ceramics, and films from several of the university’s departments, including vitrines from the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paintings
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While the figures in some of the larger canvases are reminiscent of Lucian Freud’s twisting and turning sitters, Daushvili’s strongest work is not monumental but small and intimate.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Within days, though, the posters became protest canvases.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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So far this year, artists have painted murals that include two of the city's basketball icons and sculpted a shining celebration of water's life-giving properties.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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Don’t leave the city without taking a Mural Arts Philadelphia tour to view buildings transformed by imaginative murals.—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Paintings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paintings. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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