Meaning of painter in English

painter

noun [ C ]

/ˈpeɪn.tər/ us

/ˈpeɪn.t̬ɚ/

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someone who paints pictures

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someone whose job is to paint surfaces, such as walls and doors

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J.M.W. Turner is one of Britain's best-known landscape painters.
a portrait painter
a firm of painters and decorators
an Impressionist painter
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painter

noun [ C ]

/ˈpeɪn·tər/

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an artist who uses paint to create pictures, or a worker whose job is to cover parts of buildings with paint

(Definition of painter from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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For much of the eighteenth century the predominant mode is landscape, in which the subjectivity or point of view of landowner, painter, and audience coalesces.

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These pictures subsequently provided art-market painters with tremendous inspiration for making - and faking - paintings.

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The work by painters tends to be unconvincing in its resolution of volume; the work by architects tends to neglect surface.

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So he concludes that perspective, however important, was mainly recommended for painters and stage-set designers.

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She begins the novel in the assumed persona of a young widowed painter who moves into a crumbling pile in an isolated village.

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For these workers, recruited from the rest of the pottery, were too ingrained in their ways to become first-rate painters and modellers.

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For instance, the concept of water is viewed dierently by a thirsty person, a plumber, a chemist, and a painter.

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The most he would say is that he identified the painter as a kindred spirit, dealing in his own sphere with analogous creative problems.

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Through the ages, painters have experimented with paint (trying new pigments or oils, for instance) and with concepts such as perspective and light.

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The final sample comprised 687 self-portraits by 506 painters.

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As a practising painter, he brings insider knowledge to the paintings themselves in the first and most voluminous of the book's three sections.

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They are mostly plants, a rare subject for either engraver or painter.

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It means 'painter', which would seem to be fairly apt for a brand of brushes (even if they are intended for dusting and cleaning purposes).

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The bias has selected painters who achieved maturity, success and maybe greater longevity.

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Indeed, the output of algorithms can be likened to a river's flow whose ever-changing waves inspire the painter, the poet or the musician.

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abstract painter

Predominantly an abstract painter whose individual paintings cross the boundaries between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, gestural painterliness and flat monochrome blocks of colour.

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accomplished painter

Best known as a sculptor, she was also an accomplished painter in her later years.

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amateur painter

His interest in art has already been mentioned, but he was also a distinguished amateur painter and did much service for our galleries.

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