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painter¹ Definition

painter (pānt′ər)

noun

  1. an artist who paints pictures
  2. a person whose work is covering surfaces, as walls, with paint

Etymology: OFr peintour

painter² Definition

painter (pānt′ər)

noun

a rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it as to a dock or for towing it

Etymology: LME paynter < OFr pentour, ult. < L pendere, to hang: see pend

painter³ Definition

☆ painter (pānt′ər)

noun

Dialectal cougar

Etymology: altered < panther

painter Synonyms

painter

n.

  1. A house painter

    interior decorator, calciminer, dauber*, paint-slinger*; see worker.

  2. An artist

    craftsman, artisan, illustrator, landscapist, portrait painter, miniaturist, draftsman, etcher, sketcher, cartoonist, artificer, animator, dauber; see also artist 1.

    Major painters include: Cimabue, Giotto, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel (the elder and the younger), Hans Holbein (the elder and the younger), Frans Hals, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco, Correggio, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, J.S. Copley, William Hogarth, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Eugène Delacroix, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, James Whistler, Winslow Homer, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Walter Sickert, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Henri (""le Douanier'') Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keefe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein.

painter Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • portrait: Category: Artist Medium: Pastel Location: Crediton, Devon Clicks: 17 Philip Gunn Philip is a painter of portraits.
  • landscape: He was also a painter of landscapes and did exceptional drawings of flowers.
  • century: The John Piper Gallery John Piper was one of the greatest English painters of the 20th century.

Converse of object

  • marry: Later she married the Spanish painter José Maria Sert, and it is as Misia Sert that she is chiefly remembered.
  • inspire: Not surprisingly, it has inspired painters, potters and jewelers to set up studios and shops here.
  • bear: For Geraint Evans, a Swansea born painter now based in London, the journey has taken eight years.
  • become: He retired in 1984 to become a full time painter.
  • appoint: In 1804 he was appointed historical painter to the Tsar of Russia, an appointment which was to influence the course of his life.

Adjective modifier

  • figurative: Only the best figurative painters do us this favor.
  • Pre-Raphaelite: An architect, he was perhaps the leading apostle of Victorian medievalism, along with William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite painters.
  • Flemish: We have always adored the Dutch and Flemish master painters who pictured still life food so beautifully and so realistically.
  • Dutch: In around 1560 Pieter Bruegel, a Dutch painter, painted a picture which shows lots of children playing lots of different games.
  • accomplished: He was I think one of the most accomplished British painters of the second half of the 19 th century.
  • surrealist: But he is really better known as a surrealist painter, and has had numerous exhibitions.

Noun used with modifier

  • impressionist: Giverny - Vernon: Impressionist gardens - The garden belonged to the French impressionist painter, Claude Monet.
  • portrait: Election to membership of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters is based solely on the quality of an artist's work.
  • watercolor: He was a keen fly fisherman, watercolor painter and enthusiastic at DIY: he built a sailing dinghy and a dry-stone wall!
  • expressionist: Brett Dean is thinking of writing his BCMG work for voice and ensemble, setting poetry by Egon Schiele, the famous Expressionist painter.
  • mural: Whilst painting is, at present, a serious hobby she also works as an illustrator and mural painter using a variety of media.
  • realist: Williams has earned a reputation as one of Britain's foremost realist painters.
painter Quotes

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to actörather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or 'express'an object, actual or imagined.What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

—Rosenberg, Harold

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

—O'Keeffe, Georgia

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

—Brillat-Savarin,Jean Anthelme

Every good painter who aspires to the creation of genuine masterpieces should first of all marry my wife.

—Dal|¤  , Salvador

Le style, pour l'e¤  crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

—Proust, Marcel

Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

—Allen, Henry Southworth

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto.Love and delight are better teachers of the Art of Painting than compulsion is.

—Du« r er, Albrecht

   Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

—Klee, Paul

A life passed among pictures makes not a painteröelse the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself.

—Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill

If mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.

—Wordsworth,William

   No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

—Ruskin,John

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head†everything he paints is both an homage and a critique.

—Motherwell, Robert

A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter harder, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs.

—Leonardo daVinci

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.

—Winner, Langdon

   I do not find any difference between painting and sculpture except that the sculptor pursues his work with greater physical fatigue than the painter and the painter pursues his with greater mental fatigue.

—Leonardo daVinci

All the others translate: the painter sketches Avisible world to love or reject.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

The painter who draws by practiceand judgement of the eye without the use of reason is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without knowledge of the same.

—Leonardo daVinci

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.

—Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair

With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

   The subject is to the painter what the rails are to a locomotive. He cannot do without it.

—Rivera, Diego

Dire au peintre qu'il faut prendre la nature comme elle est, vaut de dire au virtuose qu'il peut s'asseoir sur le piano. Telling a painter that he must take nature as it is is like telling a virtuoso that he can sit on the piano.

—Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane

   It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

—Renoir, Pierre Auguste

To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.

—Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill

Mr Lewis'spictures appeared, as averygreat painter said to me, to have been painted bya mailed fist in a cotton glove.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa