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Unattractive artist's brief from Greta Thunberg? (2,3,8)

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I believe the answer is:

no oil painting

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'unattractive' is the definition.
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'artist's brief from greta thunberg?' is the wordplay.
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'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is located in the answer.
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(Other definitions for no oil painting that I've seen before include "description of watercolour?" , "rather unattractive" , "Portrait in water colours" , "that's inferior on the face of it" , "plain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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