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Meaning painting meaning
What does painting mean?
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Topics painting topics
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Simple sentences
Who painted this painting?
Do you have a hobby - for example, painting?
I've taken up painting recently.
His hobby is painting pictures.
Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.
I also like painting.
It's only a painting.
I asked him if he had finished painting the room.
I asked him whether he had finished painting the room.
Our firm deals with manufacturing of painting tools.
I have to finish painting the office by Friday.
David has a keen interest in aesthetics - the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.
I obtained the painting at an auction.
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
I'm going to France to study painting.
Finally, I finished a painting.
How did you obtain this painting?
The cathedral had a religious painting on its ceiling.
Even the experts took the painting for a genuine Rembrandt.
The painting is not worth the price you are asking.
The painting will cost at least 1,000 dollars.
The painting is all but finished.
The painter went to Paris with the object of studying painting.
If I had bought the painting then, I would be rich now.
The painting is the work of a Dutch master.
The cost of the painting is very high.
This is an exquisite little painting.
This is a painting.
This gate needs painting.
Movie subtitles
I'm afraid you'll have to finish your painting later.
That this painting is 200 years old?
Can you imagine this, they stole a painting!
That is the painting!
Meanwhile, Sandro's mother, seeking her son's salvation, gets into the art gallery, burns the dangerous painting and dies.
A painting of you shortly before the kidnapping.
The secrets of the painting.
The realism of a painting by Zurbaran or Ribera is nothing to reality itself.
Bandrika may have a dictator, but tonight we're painting it red.
Oh, it's my painting of you as the discus thrower.
We put the glass over the painting only a month ago.
We have not got the man and more important, the painting.
No, no, gentlemen it is my belief that the painting is still in Mendosa's keeping.
First we must announce to the world that the painting has been stolen.
In fact, all those hundreds of radar telescopes, that formed the Atlantic Wall, had dazzle-painting green.
For your first assignment, you will partner up to recreate a famous Renaissance painting, with you as the subject.
Why would you choose that painting?
And as all my winks, my furtive signs, my asking whether you possessed a painting or a rare sculpture to show me, as all this didn't help I had the idea.
Animals and men, trees and lakes. the sky, the light. but I like best painting souls.
Thus I was painting you, Signor Alviano.
Will you come to my studio so that I can complete the painting?
But, the painting's meaning?
I need your eyes for my painting.
By the way, what's the secret about the painting?
I copied that painting at art school a year ago.
If I had any brains, I'd give up painting and get a regular job.
But what if they don't like my painting?
You see that painting?
Go to the Prince immediately, and ask him to cancel the purchase of painting.
There's a painting to be done.
Why, John, if Jerry were to give up his painting I'd never forgive him.
And while you work for me you better let me do all the painting.
How long do you figure it's gonna take you to finish this painting?
Who cares? It'll be just another painting.
Painting -- the very idea! It's my only passion.
My employer asked me to price that painting.
Won't you finish your painting?
Straighten that painting.
I WAS STANDING RIGHT HERE LOOKING AT THAT PAINTING WHEN MY BUTLER HANDED ME A LETTER.
THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS PAINTING IN THE WORLD.
IT IS THE MOST VALUABLE PAINTING IN THE LOUVRE.
News and current affairs
Much has been written about the painting collections of hedge fund managers and private equity art funds (where one essentially buys shares in portfolios of art without actually ever taking possession of anything).
But if stopping global warming were this easy, I - and everybody I know - would be painting placards for the next round of direct action.
Pigments, probably used in symbolic activities such as tattooing or body painting, are found at Southern African sites since 300,000 years, but also at contemporaneous and more recent Neanderthal sites in Europe.
Music and painting are based in part on innate skills, but also on training and practice.
Drawing, painting, and sculpting, like singing or playing a musical instrument, are significant forms of self-expression, and our lives would be poorer without them.
Anti-Semitism nowadays is more subtle than spray-painting swastikas and other acts of vandalism.
As a result, the ECB risks painting itself into a corner, for the logic behind this week's interest-rate hike implies that more increases will follow - a series of policy mistakes that will cost the Eurozone economies heavily.
With his academic background and immense erudition, he succeeded in painting, on a wide canvass, the new directions of Turkey's policies under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) leadership.
Both Obama and Romney run the risk of painting themselves into a corner when it comes to China.
Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence.
It seems that the Syrian regime is painting itself into a dark and dreary corner, a development that could set the stage for a potential showdown with the US in the not-so-distant future.
LONDON - There is a marvelous painting by Brueghel in the Brussels art gallery.
The painting shows Icarus, his wings melted, plunging to a watery grave.
The BJP's strategy of painting the Congress as soft on terror and demonizing Muslims as an existential threat to India badly misfired.
They can't move workers from painting children's toys in Guangdong to building schools in Western China overnight.