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UK
/pˈeɪntəli/
]
[ US /ˈpeɪntɝɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪntɝɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having qualities unique to the art of painting
How To Use painterly In A Sentence
- Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat.
- Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch. China's Rising Art Stars
- There is a spontaneity, a wonderful painterly quality that bridges several techniques and makes them unlike other mediums.
- Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via personalized line, color and brushstroke.
- The traditional painterly mediums of oil and watercolour remain the norm for the portraiture commissions.
- His pen-and-ink medium now includes heavy doses of watercolor, making painterly qualities more emphatic.
- Also striking was a realistic portrait from around 1970 of a woman with upswept hair seated in an ornate chair and another more painterly portrait of a faceless male figure against a background of abstract gestures.
- Color, often manipulated and used to painterly effect, is an important element in all of these works, with hues ranging from acidic yellows and oranges to stormy blues and greens.
- In each, he runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
- I believe he used ‘dots’ to create the image rather than traditional painterly styles.