Icon vs Painting - What's the difference?
icon | painting |
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
(lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
(lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
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(lb) The same activity as an art form.
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As nouns the difference between icon and painting
is that icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion while painting is (lb) an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).As a verb painting is
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(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.