painter
English Thesaurus
1. large American feline resembling a lion (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | wildcat, |
| definition | : | any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | felis, genus felis, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats (noun.animal) |
2. a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | line, |
| definition | : | something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible (noun.artifact) |
| domain category | : | boat, |
| definition | : | a small vessel for travel on water (noun.artifact) |
3. an artist who paints (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | artist, creative person, |
| definition | : | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | colorist, |
| definition | : | a painter able to achieve special effects with color (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | cubist, |
| definition | : | an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | dauber, |
| definition | : | an unskilled painter (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | distortionist, |
| definition | : | a painter who introduces distortions (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | fauve, fauvist, |
| definition | : | a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | genre painter, |
| definition | : | a painter of scenes from everyday life (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | impressionist, |
| definition | : | a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | landscapist, |
| definition | : | someone who paints landscapes (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | miniaturist, |
| definition | : | someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | muralist, |
| definition | : | a painter of murals (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | oil painter, |
| definition | : | a painter who uses oil paints (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | old master, |
| definition | : | a great European painter prior to 19th century (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | pointillist, |
| definition | : | a painter who uses the technique of pointillism (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | realist, |
| definition | : | a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | alberti, leon battista alberti, |
| definition | : | Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bell, vanessa bell, vanessa stephen, |
| definition | : | English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benton, thomas hart benton, |
| definition | : | United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | blake, william blake, |
| definition | : | visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | braque, georges braque, |
| definition | : | French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cezanne, paul cezanne, |
| definition | : | French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | chagall, marc chagall, |
| definition | : | French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | chirico, giorgio de chirico, |
| definition | : | Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | copley, john copley, john singleton copley, |
| definition | : | American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | courbet, gustave courbet, |
| definition | : | French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dali, salvador dali, |
| definition | : | surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | daumier, honore daumier, |
| definition | : | French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | david, jacques louis david, |
| definition | : | French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | davis, stuart davis, |
| definition | : | United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | de kooning, willem de kooning, |
| definition | : | United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andre derain, derain, |
| definition | : | French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dufy, raoul dufy, |
| definition | : | French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ernst, max ernst, |
| definition | : | painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fragonard, jean honore fragonard, |
| definition | : | French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gauguin, paul gauguin, |
| definition | : | French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | alberto giacometti, giacometti, |
| definition | : | Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gris, jaun gris, |
| definition | : | Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hokusai, katsushika hokusai, |
| definition | : | Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | homer, winslow homer, |
| definition | : | United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | kent, rockwell kent, |
| definition | : | United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | klee, paul klee, |
| definition | : | Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gustav klimt, klimt, |
| definition | : | Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | krasner, lee krasner, |
| definition | : | United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lawrence, sir thomas lawrence, |
| definition | : | English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fernand leger, leger, |
| definition | : | French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lichtenstein, roy lichtenstein, |
| definition | : | United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | magritte, rene magritte, |
| definition | : | Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | edouard manet, manet, |
| definition | : | French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andrea mantegna, mantegna, |
| definition | : | Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | marsh, reginald marsh, |
| definition | : | United States painter (1898-1954) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | joan miro, miro, |
| definition | : | Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | claude monet, monet, |
| definition | : | French impressionist painter (1840-1926) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | edvard munch, munch, |
| definition | : | Norwegian painter (1863-1944) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pablo picasso, picasso, |
| definition | : | prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jackson pollock, pollock, |
| definition | : | United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | reynolds, sir joshua reynolds, |
| definition | : | English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mark rothko, rothko, |
| definition | : | United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john singer sargent, sargent, |
| definition | : | United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ben shahn, benjamin shahn, shahn, |
| definition | : | United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | chaim soutine, soutine, |
| definition | : | French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | sully, thomas sully, |
| definition | : | United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | tanguy, yves tanguy, |
| definition | : | United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mark tobey, tobey, |
| definition | : | United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john trumbull, trumbull, |
| definition | : | American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | joseph mallord william turner, turner, |
| definition | : | English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | maurice utrillo, utrillo, |
| definition | : | French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gogh, van gogh, vincent van gogh, |
| definition | : | Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | vasarely, viktor vasarely, |
| definition | : | French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | giorgio vasari, vasari, |
| definition | : | Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andy warhol, warhol, |
| definition | : | United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | max weber, weber, |
| definition | : | United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benjamin west, west, |
| definition | : | English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | grant wood, wood, |
| definition | : | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andrew wyeth, wyeth, |
| definition | : | United States painter (born in 1917) (noun.person) |
4. a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | finisher, |
| definition | : | a painter who applies a finishing coat (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | house painter, |
| definition | : | a painter of houses a similar buildings (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | letterer, |
| definition | : | a painter of letters (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | scene painter, |
| definition | : | a painter of theatrical scenery (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | sign painter, |
| definition | : | someone who paints signs and billboards etc. (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | stippler, |
| definition | : | a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect) (noun.person) |
5. an artist who paints (noun.person)
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | make a painting of (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | make a painting (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | painterly, |
| definition | : | having qualities unique to the art of painting (adj.all) |
6. a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint (noun.person)
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | apply paint to; coat with paint (verb.contact) |
7. an artist who paints (noun.person)
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | make a painting of (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | make a painting (verb.creation) |
| derivation | : | painterly, |
| definition | : | having qualities unique to the art of painting (adj.all) |
8. a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint (noun.person)
| derivation | : | paint, |
| definition | : | apply paint to; coat with paint (verb.contact) |
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