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 Translation for 'oil painting' from English to Norwegian
NOUN1   an oil painting [picture] | oil paintings
NOUN2   oil painting [technique] | -
NOUN3   an oil painting | oil paintings
kunst
oljemaleri {n}
oil painting
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kunst
maleri {n}
painting
fargeskrin {n}painting set
arkeo.kunst
hulemaleri {n}
cave painting
fargeskrin {n}painting box
maling {m/f}painting [applying paint]
kunst
aktmaling {m/f}
nude painting [activity]
kunst
aktmaleri {n}
nude painting [painted picture]
å oljeto oil
olje {m/f}oil
oljekrig {m}oil war
miljø
oljesøl {n}
oil spill
unverified oljeterminal {m}oil depot
unverified oljeterminal {m}oil installation
gruve
leterigg {m}
oil rig
ind.
oljeterminal {m}
oil terminal
ind.
oljedepot {n}
oil depot
fyrings­olje {m/f}fuel oil
gastr.
vegetabilsk olje {m/f}
vegetable oil
oljebrønn {m}oil well
ind.
oljeraffineri {n}
oil refinery
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Usage Examples English
  • Frank Redelius' book, published in 2009, is titled "The Master Keys: A Painter's Treatise On The Pictorial Technique Of Oil Painting".
  • His oil painting "The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso" is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
  • Pablo Picasso's 1905 oil painting, "Au Lapin Agile" ("At the Lapin Agile") helped to make this cabaret world-famous.
  • As well as looking forwards, his art reinvigorates medieval subjects such as marginal drolleries of ordinary life in illuminated manuscripts, and the calendar scenes of agricultural labours set in landscape backgrounds, and puts these on a much larger scale than before, and in the expensive medium of oil painting.
  • Degas scholars have agreed that the sculptures were not created as aids to painting, although the artist habitually explored ways of linking graphic art and oil painting, drawing and pastel, sculpture and photography.

  • In February 2006, an oil painting of his controversial and iconic series "Le Bœuf Écorché" (1924) sold for a record £7.8 million ($13.8 million) to an anonymous buyer at a Christie's auction held in London—after it was estimated to fetch £4.8 million.
  • The 19th-century rustic oil painting on the front of the album was purchased from an antique shop in Reading, Berkshire by Plant.
  • He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color.
  • According to Vasari and other art historians including Ernst Gombrich, he invented oil painting, though most now regard that claim as an oversimplification.
  • During his final years, Lawrence renewed his serious interest in oil painting.

  • It soon became the subject of humour and satire, being referred to as "The Queen's Ass", and was the subject of an oil painting by George Stubbs in 1763.
  • Tempera grassa has some of the working properties of both egg tempera and oil painting and is a perfectly viable medium – however it is not the same as pure, homemade egg tempera and behaves differently."
  • In February 2011, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery announced that it had acquired an oil painting of Martínez for its collection.
  • The lands of Afghanistan have a long history of art, with the world's earliest known usage of oil painting found in cave murals in the country.
  • Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

  • In 16th-century Europe, oil painting on canvas arose as an easier method for mural painting.
  • At a 2007 Sotheby’s auction in New York, Feininger’s oil painting "Jesuits III" (1915) sold for $23,280,000.
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