Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 556 (Painting)

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#556. Painting. -- N. painting; depicting; drawing &c. v.; design; perspective, sciagraphy[obs], skiagraphy[obs]; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420 composition; treatment.

historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography[obs].

school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art &c. 847.

monochrome, polychrome; grisaille[Fr].

pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint &c. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish &c. 356a, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry.

photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting; graphics, computer graphics.

picture, painting, piece[Fr], tableau, canvas; oil painting &c.; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil &c. drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.

photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype[obs], calotype[obs], heliotype[obs]; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo.

technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid.

portrait &c. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.

landscape, seapiece[obs]; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life.

picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca[obs].

V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil &c. n.; paint in oils &c. n.; stencil; depict &c. (represent) 554.

Adj. painted &c. v.; pictorial, graphic, picturesque. pencil, oil &c. n.

Adv. in pencil &c. n.

Phr. fecit[Lat], delineavit[Lat]; mutum est pictura poema[Lat].