On the sixth floor, the Atelier studio recalls a painter’s workshop, melding brick walls with vivid rugs.—Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024 Gray was a Scottish writer and a painter who died in 2019 and thus was unable to enjoy the movie’s lush cinematography and many orgasms.—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024 The British painter Harold Cohen spent decades refining his artistic collaborator, an image-generating robot called AARON.—Will Heinrich, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 Now known as Entrée du port (Entrance to the Port), the mural might have been influenced by painters Claude-Joseph Vernet or Claude Lorrain, who depicted seaports in their work, as the Art Newspaper writes.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024 Then don’t touch the focus ring again — or secure it with painter’s tape, as mentioned in No. 8.
13.—Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2024 On the room’s south wall hangs the couple’s growing art collection, which features works by people in their social circle, including the painter Louis Fratino, Forsblom’s friend the painter Sophie Larrimore and Heimans’s brother, Ralph, a portraitist.—Max Berlinger, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 The remnants of a 64-square-foot mural created by Paul Cézanne have been discovered beneath layers of wallpaper and plaster in the painter’s idyllic home in France.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024 Photographers, plein-air painters and sightseers revel in this striking scene, especially in the Napa Valley, where wild mustard appears in abundance from January through March.—Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (2)
Middle English paynter, probably from Middle French dialect (Normandy) pentoir, penteur clothesline, from pendre to hang — more at pendant
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