The phrase "a painting frame" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a frame specifically designed to hold or display a painting.
Example: "She carefully selected a painting frame that complemented the colors of her artwork."
Alternatives: "an artwork frame" or "a picture frame".
It looked like a painting, framed by a huge fig tree rising from one of the prettiest parks I think I'd ever seen.
If you have wallpaper, consider a painted frame that matches the pattern.
But the best of these essayists has to be Tony Zhou, whose series Every Frame A Painting launched in April 2014.
Mr. Quinones keeps the anti-authoritarian impulse of old-style street art alive in a figurative painting, framed as if for a baronial hall, of a wolf dressed in a red hunter's jacket and stalking the viewer through trees with dollar bills for foliage.
Music is like a great painting framed in time.
In 1738 he decorated the Alderman's Hall of the Old Town Hall of The Hague with a ceiling painting framed by allegorical putti (Freedom, Industry, Temperance, and Fortitude) done in grisaille in the four corners.
The idea of decorating a painting's frame with a poem was one Whistler had gotten from Rossetti, who had similarly pasted a golden paper with one of his poems on the frame of his 1849 painting The Girlhood of Mary.
It received the IGN Best Overall Game Award for 2012 and Ryan Clements of IGN described the game as "the most beautiful game of its time", saying, "each moment is like a painting, expertly framed and lit".
The bed, which comes with a mattress, has a painted steel frame and nickel-plate feet.
Fischinger anticipates op and psychedelic art, and his final masterwork, "Motion Painting No. 1" (1947), a 10-minute film painted frame by frame on plexiglass over a six-month period in a single, improvised "take," presages the spontaneity of Jackson Pollock's action paintings.
