painterliness

paint·er·ly (p

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adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic.

a. Having qualities unique to the art of painting.

b. Of, relating to, or being a style of painting marked by openness of form, with shapes distinguished by variations of color rather than by outline or contour.

painter·li·ness n.

painterly [ˈpeɪntəlɪ]

adj

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) having qualities peculiar to painting, esp the depiction of shapes by means of solid masses of colour, rather than by lines Compare linear [5]

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) of or characteristic of a painter; artistic

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Adj.

painterly - having qualities unique to the art of painting

beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art

aesthetical, esthetic, esthetical, aesthetic - concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; "the aesthetic faculties"; "an aesthetic person"; "aesthetic feeling"; "the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success"

Translations

painterly [ˈpeɪntəlɪ] ADJ [style, talents] → pictoricista

painterly

adj → malerisch; his painterly talents → seine Begabung als Maler; Magritte’s prosaic painterly style → Magrittes prosaischer Malstil; a painterly effect → ein gemalter Effekt

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linear Linearly	If you put all the best British artists of the 18th and 19th centuries into one genius — gave this Frankensteinian composite the satirical eye of Hogarth, the visionary imagination of Blake, the sensual portraitist's ease of Gainsborough and the painterliness of Constable and Turner — you still wouldn't produce a Goya. 1000 artworks to see before you die: Francisco de Goya by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk Not enough precision to rank them as hard-edged, painterliness to rank them as expressionist or subtlety to pass them off as a mock-Rothko; a perfect pitch of lacklustre painting. Brice Marden by Krishtalka, Sholem / C: International Contemporary Art Emerging in the 1960s amidst the work of a grand generation of transgressives that includes Mike Kelley, Charles Ray, and Bruce Nauman, McCarthy's anal-oriented performances and sculptures, with their manic embrace of bestiality and scat, their references (mayonnaise for sperm, ketchup for blood, chocolate for shit) to blood mysteries, and their unrepentant focus on the rectal, quickly became the incarnations of a new, socially acceptable painterliness harking back to Abstract Expressionism. Paul McCarthy: Maccarone Gallery by Pincus-Witten, Robert / Artforum International	paintbox paintbrush painted painted beauty painted bunting painted cup painted daisy Painted Desert Painted finch painted greenling painted lady painted leaf painted nettle Painted partridge painted sandgrouse painted terrapin painted tongue painted tortoise painted turtle painted wolf painted woman painted-leaf begonia painter Painter stainer painter's colic painterliness painterly Paintership painting Paintless paintpot Painture paintwork Painty pair pair bond pair creation pair formation pair of compasses pair of pincers pair of pliers pair of scissors Pair of stairs pair of tongs pair of tweezers pair of virginals pair off pair production pair royal pair trawling pair-oar	painted tongue painted tongue painted tortoise painted turtle painted turtle painted turtle Painted Wall Painted Walls painted wolf painted woman Painted! painted-leaf begonia painter painter painter Painter (disambiguation) Painter (disambiguation) Painter and decorator Painter stainer Painter Turtle Painter Turtle Painter Turtle painter's colic painter's colic painter's colic painter's putty painter's putty painter's putty Painter, Theophilus Shickel Painter, William painterliness painterly painters painters Paintership paintier paintier paintier paintier paintiest paintiest paintiest paintiest painting painting painting painting painting Painting and Coatings Industry Painting and Decorating Painting and Decorating Association Painting and Decorating Contractors of America Painting and Decoration Students Association of Ghana Painting as the Smallest Conserved Evolutionary Unit Segments Painting Contractor Certification Programs Painting Contractors and Decorators of America painting into a corner painting into a corner painting into a corner painting into a corner Painting Oil

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If you put all the best British artists of the 18th and 19th centuries into one genius — gave this Frankensteinian composite the satirical eye of Hogarth, the visionary imagination of Blake, the sensual portraitist's ease of Gainsborough and the painterliness of Constable and Turner — you still wouldn't produce a Goya.

1000 artworks to see before you die: Francisco de Goya by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Not enough precision to rank them as hard-edged, painterliness to rank them as expressionist or subtlety to pass them off as a mock-Rothko; a perfect pitch of lacklustre painting.

Brice Marden by Krishtalka, Sholem / C: International Contemporary Art

Emerging in the 1960s amidst the work of a grand generation of transgressives that includes Mike Kelley, Charles Ray, and Bruce Nauman, McCarthy's anal-oriented performances and sculptures, with their manic embrace of bestiality and scat, their references (mayonnaise for sperm, ketchup for blood, chocolate for shit) to blood mysteries, and their unrepentant focus on the rectal, quickly became the incarnations of a new, socially acceptable painterliness harking back to Abstract Expressionism.

Paul McCarthy: Maccarone Gallery by Pincus-Witten, Robert / Artforum International

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