painterly

English

Etymology

painter +‎ -ly

Adjective

painterly (comparative more painterly, superlative most painterly)

  1. Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
    • 1982 August 28, Andrea Loewenstein, “Becker's Experience Talks Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 11:
      She always shows and never tells. For some poets, such a concentration on the concrete may imply a loosening of language and of perception, or an immersion into raw emotion. Instead, Becker clothes the everyday in a spare, painterly clarity of perception.
  2. (of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes.

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “having clear brush-strokes”): linear, plastic

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