oil painting
Noun
Meaning
the art or method of painting with oil paints
a picture painted with oil paints
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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for "women and the lazy.” His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.