painterly

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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9780754666776 The late paintings of Velazquez; theorizing painterly performance.

The late paintings of Velazquez; theorizing painterly performance by Reference & Research Book News

What we see is a series of ever more striking painterly bursts or insights that seem to expand the scope of film or momentarily pause the inevitability of film time.

The beautiful and the everyday in the films of Mark Lewis by Steiner, Shepherd / C: International Contemporary Art

The project, which is being shown this fall at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, consists of painterly interventions by van den Broek in a series of photographs (mostly of film sets) selected by Baldessari.

Koen van den Broek: Figge von Rosen Galerie by Davidts, Wouter / Artforum International

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