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Collocations for painter - noun

1. person whose job is to paint buildings, walls, etc.

ADJECTIVE

self-employed
house
sign

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PHRASES

painter and decorator (BrE)
He now works as a painter and decorator.

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2. artist who paints pictures

ADJECTIVE

celebrated, distinguished, famous, great, leading, master, renowned, well-known
some of the great painters of the last century
the Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer
accomplished, good, talented
successful
amateur, professional
self-taught
contemporary, modern, modernist
an exhibition of works by contemporary painters
16th-century, etc.
court
Rudolf II's court painter
oil, watercolour/watercolor (esp. BrE)
abstract, animal (esp. BrE), figurative, fresco (esp. BrE), genre, landscape, miniature, portrait, realist, still-life
Cubist, Impressionist, Romantic, etc.

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