painterly

[ peyn-ter-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
Fine Arts. characterized by qualities of color, stroke, or texture perceived as distinctive to the art of painting, especially the rendering of forms and images in terms of color or tonal relations rather than of contour or line.

painterly

/ ˈpeɪntəlɪ /

having qualities peculiar to painting, esp the depiction of shapes by means of solid masses of colour, rather than by lines Compare linear
of or characteristic of a painter; artistic

First recorded in 1580–90; painter ¹ + -ly

The ironic painterly stroke and the disembodied functional object are a perfect Pop pair.

Whatever else anyone may say about him, he had probably the most painterly eye of any movie director.

Together, they're a portrait of Hopper—an assortment of memories and places organized around his cinematic and painterly eye.

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