The Devil's Dictionary: Painting
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
PAINTING
-n.
The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
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