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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: painter

1	n	an artist who paints
2	n	a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
3	n	large American feline resembling a lion

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: painter

n an artist who paints

Examples:: show 130 examples...; hide 130 examples...; Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472); Vanessa Stephen
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961); Thomas Hart Benton
United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975); William Blake
visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827); Georges Braque
French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963); Paul Cezanne
French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906); Marc Chagall
French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985); Giorgio de Chirico
Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978); John Constable
English landscape painter (1776-1837); John Singleton Copley
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815); Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875); Gustave Courbet
French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877); Salvador Dali
surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989); Honore Daumier
French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879); Jacques Louis David
French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825); Stuart Davis
United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964); Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French impressionist painter (1834-1917); Willem de Kooning
United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997); Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
French romantic painter (1798-1863); Andre Derain
French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954); Raoul Dufy
French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953); Max Ernst
painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976); Jean Honore Fragonard
French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806); Roger Eliot Fry
English painter and art critic (1866-1934); Thomas Gainsborough
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788); Paul Gauguin
French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903); Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966); Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828); Duncan James Corrow Grant
Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978); Jaun Gris
Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927); Frederick Childe Hassam
United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935); Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849); Winslow Homer
United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910); Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French classical painter (1780-1867); Wassily Kandinski
Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944); Rockwell Kent
United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971); Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German expressionist painter (1880-1938); Paul Klee
Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940); Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918); Franz Joseph Kline
United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962); Lee Krasner
United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984); Sir Thomas Lawrence
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830); Fernand Leger
French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955); Roy Lichtenstein
United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997); Laurence Stephen Lowry
English painter (1887-1976); Rene Magritte
Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967); Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Russian abstract painter (1878-1935); Edouard Manet
French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883); Andrea Mantegna
Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506); Reginald Marsh
United States painter (1898-1954); Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954); Jean Francois Millet
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875); Joan Miro
Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983); Amedeo Modigliano
Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920); Claude Monet
French impressionist painter (1840-1926); Samuel Finley Breese Morse
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872); Anna Mary Robertson Moses
United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961); Robert Motherwell
United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991); Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863-1944); Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter (1617-1682); Georgia Okeeffe
United States painter (1887-1986); Maxfield Frederick Parrish
United States painter (1870-1966); Pablo Picasso
prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973); Jackson Pollock
United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956); Sir Joshua Reynolds
English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792); Mark Rothko
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970); Le Douanier Rousseau
French primitive painter (1844-1910); John Singer Sargent
United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925); Georges Pierre Seurat
French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891); Benjamin Shahn
United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969); David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974); Chaim Soutine
French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943); Frank Philip Stella
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936); Gilbert Charles Stuart
United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828); Thomas Sully
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872); Yves Tanguy
United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955); Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian painter (1696-1770); Mark Tobey
United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976); Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901); John Trumbull
American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843); Joseph Mallord William Turner
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851); Maurice Utrillo
French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955); Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890); Viktor Vasarely
French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997); Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574); Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842); Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958); Jean Edouard Vuillard
French painter (1868-1940); Andy Warhol
United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987); Max Weber
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961); Benjamin West
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820); James Abbott McNeill Whistler
United States painter (1834-1903); Grant Wood
United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942); Andrew Wyeth
United States painter (born in 1917); Josef Albers
United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976); Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch painter (1450-1516); Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi
Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510); Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569); Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610); Giovanni Cimabue
painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302); Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534); Albrecht Durer
a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528); Domenikos Theotocopoulos
Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614); Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441); Giotto di Bondone
Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337); Frans Hals
Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666); William Hogarth
English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764); Holbein the Elder
German painter of religious works (1465-1524); Holbein the Younger
German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543); Georges de La Tour
French painter of religious works (1593-1652); Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519); Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469); Filippino Lippi
Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504); Michelangelo Buonarroti
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564); Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944); Jose Clemente Orozco
Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949); Nicolas Poussin
French painter in the classical style (1594-1665); Raffaello Sanzio
Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520); Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
influential Dutch artist (1606-1669); Pierre Auguste Renoir
French impressionist painter (1841-1919); Diego Rivera
socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957); Sir Peter Paul Rubens
prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640); Jan Steen
Dutch genre painter (1626-1679); Jacopo Robusti
Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594); Tiziano Vecellio
old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576); Sir Anthony Vandyke
Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
Spanish painter (1599-1660); Jan van der Meer
Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675); Paolo Veronese
Italian painter of the Venetian school (1528-1588); Jean Antoine Watteau
French painter (1684-1721)

Types:: show 20 types...; hide 20 types...; abstract artist, abstractionist
a painter of abstract pictures; colorist
a painter able to achieve special effects with color; cubist
an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism; dauber
an unskilled painter; distortionist
a painter who introduces distortions; Fauve, fauvist
a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism; genre painter
a painter of scenes from everyday life; impressionist
a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism; landscapist
someone who paints landscapes; miniaturist
someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail; muralist
a painter of murals; oil painter
a painter who uses oil paints; old master
a great European painter prior to 19th century; pointillist
a painter who uses the technique of pointillism; limner, portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer
a painter or drawer of portraits; Post-impressionist, Postimpressionist
an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism; realist
a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style; scene painter, scenic artist
an artist specializing in scenic subjects; watercolorist, watercolourist
a painter who paints with watercolors; suprematist
an artist of the school of suprematism

Type of:: artist, creative person
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

n a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; finisher
a painter who applies a finishing coat; house painter
a painter of houses a similar buildings; letterer
a painter of letters; scene painter
a painter of theatrical scenery; sign painter
someone who paints signs and billboards etc.; stippler
a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect); varnisher
someone who applies a finishing coat of varnish

Type of:: skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
a worker who has acquired special skills

n a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)

Type of:: line
something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible

n large American feline resembling a lion

Synonyms:: Felis concolor, catamount, cougar, mountain lion, panther, puma

Type of:: wildcat
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild

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