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  • noun Plural form of painter.

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Examples

  • One of my favorite female painters is showing at the Hauser & Wirth Zürich gallery in Switzerland.

    May 2009 2009

  • It's disgusting, said one of the painters from the building site.

    Hit and Myth Newmania 2007

  • Several younger painters from the region have the same fierce independence, and if you have been to Oaxaca and traveled through its mist laden mountains and verdant villages bursting with color, you know it's the land speaking through these artists.

    Francisco Toledo 2006

  • Several younger painters from the region have the same fierce independence, and if you have been to Oaxaca and traveled through its mist laden mountains and verdant villages bursting with color, you know it's the land speaking through these artists.

    Francisco Toledo 2006

  • It explains why the two statements — that there are seven principal colors and that there are three colors that make all others — could coexist in painters 'treatises and encyclopedic works without conflict.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Painters designed gardens that became the subject of later landscape paintings; porcelain painters transferred these paintings onto a ceramic surface; finally, English potters studied Chinese wares in order to develop designs for their own ceramics.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • The Chinese porcelain painters responsible for these designs had borrowed extensively from the long tradition of landscape painting in China; they employed the same artistic conventions and possessed the same view of man in relation to the natural world.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • There are Mimosas in Syria; but no tree, save the fabled Zakhum, could produce the terrible apparatus with which certain French painters of the modern school have attempted to heighten the terrors of the scene.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Shall we call the painters that decorated the architecturally fantastic and airy walls of

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • In the Germanic Museum they fled to the Italian painters from the German pictures they had inspired; in the great hall of the Rathhaus the noble

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

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