Painterly Definition

pāntər-lē
adjective
Of or characteristic of a painter.
Webster's New World
Having qualities unique to the art of painting.
American Heritage
Characterized by those qualities related to a painter's techniques in applying colors in masses, esp. with a thick, rough surface texture, as distinguished from linear qualities that emphasize outline and contour.
Webster's New World

(of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes.

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Painterly Sentence Examples

  • I like the contradiction between the craft of working with metal, and the very painterly image which I aim to achieve on paper.

  • His surfaces might be worked to display an almost painterly plane that suggests refracted light, with a remarkable range of color.

  • Like club music, the work repeats, loops and returns over a rhythm of slapstick laced with formal, painterly considerations.

  • The painterly adaptations of her sources impede our ability to read the image as transparent; their surfaces are literally rendered opaque.

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