How To Use Painterly In A Sentence
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Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat.
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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
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There is a spontaneity, a wonderful painterly quality that bridges several techniques and makes them unlike other mediums.
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Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via personalized line, color and brushstroke.
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The traditional painterly mediums of oil and watercolour remain the norm for the portraiture commissions.
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His pen-and-ink medium now includes heavy doses of watercolor, making painterly qualities more emphatic.
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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.
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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.
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In each, he runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
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I believe he used ‘dots’ to create the image rather than traditional painterly styles.
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Perhaps eyes painted without black pupils seem ghostly but the painterly dabs of umber tones definitely bring this woman back to earth.
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Here, being true to nature enables Shemesh to record a dazzling array of painterly gestures, some of them squarely within the tradition of Abstract Expressionism.
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Colours, space, light, and composition are used to masterly, painterly effect.
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With more than 400 works, including 275 paintings, 50 of the late paper cutouts and an assortment of sculptures, drawings and prints, the massive show has temporarily displaced the entire permanent collection from two floors of the museum It's like a long, languorous alfresco feast in the south of France, with course after course of the painterly equivalent of ripe fruit, creme fraiche, warm bread and the giddy intoxication of perfumy rose.
The Most Beautiful Show In The World
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He is certainly painterly in his style, building up a web of images yet leaving the reader to their own observations.
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Her painterly poetry is infused with jazzier, swingin 'elements.
Painting Music - Top 10 Albums
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They had in common the repudiation of such painterly qualities as expressive brush strokes and personalized facture.
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To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.
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It is kind of disillusioning to realize that even painterly paintings and other works that are considered entirely novel creations often involved analogous 'tracing' techniques rather than realistic forms just springing onto the canvas from a painter's mind's eye.
Archive 2006-08-09
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Foss here presents us with a summa of the painterly realist effort in her gentle abstracting of landscape form and color that goes for the soul.
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Venetian art was more painterly than the sculptural art of central Italy, and artists used light and colour more dramatically; Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese developed the expressive power and illusionism of oil painting.
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The phrase began as an art term, then, like "post-painterly abstraction.
The State Of Race
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Aware of the abstractions of Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Guston moved alongside them, exploring colour, space and painterly touch alone.
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Individual values were then augmented by the Zone System without risk of retracing the Pictorialist's penchant for broad painterly strokes.
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The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his "matter paintings" lent a moving solemnity - the critic John Russell referred to their "seignorial dignity" - to works that "seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals.
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His minimalist style of drawing and limited palette of colours are far from painterly, however.
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In the new work, Wachtel pays considerable attention to certain effects of painterly facture on the frictionless surfaces of wood panels.
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A section of chipboard becomes a painterly abstraction, with a faux bark edge as a frame.
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His paintings unfold either as installation or three - dimensional object – or as reworking of painterly problems.
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He unfurls a magnificent, painterly canvas, on which 1846 New York is reimagined as a hyperreal wild west of the east.
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Aware of the abstractions of Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Guston moved alongside them, exploring colour, space and painterly touch alone.
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If all this implies a kind of Vuillard-like intimism in her work that would give a quite false impression of the boldly artistic and intensely painterly means through which she chooses to explore such themes.
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Embodying abstract forms through both material and painterly means, Hogan created a fascinating body of work that should continue to be mined for its fresh ideas and directions.
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But maybe by this token Cooke is to be admired for his risk-taking and for bravely trying to revivify a painterly figurative tradition that stretches from Rembrandt through to Bacon.
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Holliday always appears to begin with feathery, illusionistic brushstrokes that suggest an expansive, cinematic space and then improvises over them with a repertoire of painterly conventions.
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It was like someone had dipped a paintbrush into the potato, wiped off the excess and then artistically brushed it over the plate in a painterly style, perhaps like early Picasso, or Van Gogh.
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The resulting painterly effects evoke old-master canvases as well as introductory chapters in the history of photography.
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The painterly naturalism that we see in these early genre scenes was indeed motivated by a vision of nature - that is, by a vision of human nature conceived in terms both biological and social.
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The kitchen's mahogany, ash, and aluminum are carried into the living room, where they're composed as a painterly fireplace wall.
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Here's a quiet little poem by one of my favorite poets, Eamon Grennan, which demonstrates, in its patient, painterly way, how an accumulation of sense-based details can develop a kind of revelatory momentum.
Archive 2007-11-01
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As a result, one is free to contemplate the pure painterly richness and depth of each work.
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On his return to Amsterdam by c. 1562, he became one of the earliest artists to introduce to the Netherlands the rich colours and painterly brushwork of Venetian painting.
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This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
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There is a painterly quality to the finish of the fruit, the sensuous surfaces sprayed and brushed in gradual layers from light to dark.
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Frankenthaler has returned to prints at many stages in her career, despite the fact that prints would seem to be the medium least sympathetic to her painterly style.
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Fresh painterly qualities enhance McFarlin's power to situate us in ‘Netherworlds.’
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Rainer encountered problems in attempting to translate the ‘literalness’ attributed to painterly and sculptural minimalism to live performance.
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The painterly realists who directly succeeded the Action painters in the '60s and '70s might seem like Brewster's natural neighbors.
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Mixed in with the rustic, crunchy tweeds, herringbones and plaids, were soft rose-print silks and an abstract, painterly print, particularly effective in drop-waist dresses with a bow-finished, pleated effect at the hip.
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Discovered at the end of the eighteenth century, lithography allows artists to make painterly expressive marks.
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From a few steps back the images, like Caravaggio, seem somewhat clear and tight; with your nose in the painting, the fluid painterly qualities come to the fore.
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The painterly quality of this popular art was often limited, but the artists were expected to understand the complexities of sails and rigging, and to depict it accurately.
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Manet's flower pieces and studies of such simple things as a ham on a dish restate 17th-century types with unequalled painterly freedom.
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Cleary is not a painterly artist; indeed, she goes to great effort to conceal her method of execution.
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It's a kind of existential revenge film that mixes some almost unwatchable scenes with superb camera movements, a disorienting plot and painterly compositions.
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Brawarsky's maximalism finally loses its punch in excesses of painterly verbiage.
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Hals makes his loose, gestural approach, termed "painterly" by the Swiss-German art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, look so effortless that it is often assumed that he worked quickly, making what would now be called "one shot" paintings; in fact, he built up his vibrant images with traditional layering techniques, trusting—just as Rubens, his near-contemporary and fellow master of the painterly, did—that his last flourishes would bring the result to vivid life.
Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
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Cornelius's works, essentially linear in the tradition of Dürer, avoid painterly composition or colour.
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Inspired by the client's guitar collection, the coruscating variations in colour and texture have a hypnotically intense, painterly quality.
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The expanse of its textured surface is unashamedly painterly, but the bold and sweeping brushstrokes to the left and right of the canvas are tempered by intricate central sections.
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The 29-year-old has an almost painterly approach to fashion and colour; she is her own canvas.
Times, Sunday Times
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By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings.
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The first painting, Figure 1, is particularly intriguing because of the contrast between the flat eggshell blue background and the more agitated and painterly brushstrokes describing the figure of a woman.
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The expanse of its textured surface is unashamedly painterly, but the bold and sweeping brushstrokes to the left and right of the canvas are tempered by intricate central sections.
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The one outstanding quality is a painterly use of light.
Times, Sunday Times
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Louise Fishman's recent exhibition reinforced her reputation as a painter unafraid to both carry on and challenge the traditions of painterly abstraction.
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His painterly interpretations of place and moment are bolstered by an alert formalism and a chromatic appetite that often induce him to take color harmonics to their limits.
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Today, he is well known for his vibrant color floral prints which have a painterly quality.
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The city is awash with stunning architecture, museums and art galleries and has a painterly quality that takes your breath away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several of the leaves morph into real green brushstrokes, one of numerous instances where photographic reproduction blends with a hands-on painterly touch.
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They had in common the repudiation of such painterly qualities as expressive brush strokes and personalized facture.
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What I ended up not liking, actually detesting with a burning passion, was the sheer wretchedness of the text in the piece and the excessive self-consciousness in which they made reference to the painterly/artistic process.
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The undulations of a wolf eel are mirrored in a wave, and a white-spotted boxfish is emphasized by painterly slashes of yellow.
Photo-Op: Deep-Hued Sea
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His use of the double exposure contributes to this painterly feel by rendering an outline of second colour, giving his photographs their depth and lustre.
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In these works she deals with mythical beasts who are used as symbols of the masculine and feminine in a painterly and expressive manner.
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Since platinum prints are made on uncoated fine art papers (such as watercolor paper), the image is embedded in the fibers resulting in a softer, more painterly look than other black-and-white processes provide.
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A good part of Foss's achievement over the years is to have developed a painterly realist style she can call her own.
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Both legs and abstract shapes contribute to an almost painterly overall compositional effect.
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They're legible but barely, approaching a very painterly monochromatic abstraction.
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There is an earthy, almost painterly, quality to Wright's mark-making.
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The film has a painterly eye.
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Young has a lively sense of gesture and motion; his painterly rhythms are rapid and syncopated, forming a dancing pattern.
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The most significant departure from this painterly orthodoxy is his shift from canvas to blocks made of plaster or wood.
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In each, Krahenbuhl runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
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The curators thus turn something of a cold shoulder to a generation that contains many fine painterly abstractionists - artists like Dona Nelson, Terry Winters, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman and Cora Cohen, to name just a handful.
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We see ageing, sympathetic human flesh and marvellous, unbelievable painterly skill both at once.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stieglitz began to talk of banishing the painterly poetic fog from photography.
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The following year Krasner abruptly changed direction, returning to a sensuous painterly style in which human, animal, and plant forms play prominent roles.
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Its dazzling chiaroscuro and painterly bravura surpass his earlier performances.
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The paint is always thick, and Spruell's painterly touch is rather blunt (to the point of being terse).
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This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
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There are also instructive parallels between Schneider's work and two photographers who explored painterly and imaginative renderings of the body.
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The artist used bravura painterly techniques to depict comic-book-style characters, many of whom had buck-toothed, doggish muzzles and half-rounded, Mickey-like eyes.
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Murray is adept at achieving an osmotic relationship of sorts between geometric and painterly abstraction.
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Her approach was more painterly, mine more narrative.
Times, Sunday Times
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It cannot be seen at face value, as merely the making of a valid work of art out of anything that is at hand, its graphic and painterly qualities notwithstanding.
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Showy but not slick, the work has a new painterly depth and dimension that take it beyond the surface.
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Trygve's compositions are concerned with painterly colours and a gradual shifting of texture.
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The painterly freedom of the Fauves and their expressive use of color gave splendid proof of their intelligent study of van Gogh's art.
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Saito prepares even grounds in pale though not pastel - colors, upon which he proceeds to work the time-honored alchemy of painterly expression.
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It's painterly, in fact - the correctness of the drawing and the looseness and liveliness of the assembly work together to make the sculptures live.
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She articulates the quirky contours of her subjects - products of design and childhood fantasy - with bold painterly effects.
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In the 1930s, Heliker made landscapes in a Cezannesque painterly style.
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Here, sweeping, gestural lines and painterly patches of color depicted a landscape of reclining, long-haired, bare-breasted girls, lop-eared rabbits and men in strange, chapeaus.
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Quintilian was one who credited Zeuxis with having established painterly principles of light and shade.
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In seeking to stay current, he ignored his greatest strengths - the expressivity of his drawn line and painterly touch.
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This extends both to its painterly but minimalistic tableaux and to the fluid dynamism of the stagecraft.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Streaking across the varnished canvases, the reflections reveal tiny cracks, vigorous brushstrokes and traces of impasto, and generate a tension between painterly substance and photographic flatness.
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In each, Krahenbuhl runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto, scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.
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All of them seem to have been through a battle to find the best painterly approach with which to suggest their bigger meanings.
Times, Sunday Times
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This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
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A section of chipboard becomes a painterly abstraction, with a faux bark edge as a frame.
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The images have a soft-focus painterly quality, bringing to mind the paintings of both Gerhard Richter and Chuck Close.
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As Denton and Une vie mystique illustrate, Cisse works in a theatrical painterly style, juxtaposing seemingly disparate subjects and images.
