painterly
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.
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How to use painterly in a sentence
The ironic painterly stroke and the disembodied functional object are a perfect Pop pair.
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Monument Valley From the Eyes of a Krazy Kat and John Ford Fan | Malcolm Jones | February 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTogether, they're a portrait of Hopper—an assortment of memories and places organized around his cinematic and painterly eye.
British Dictionary definitions for 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 (def. 5)
of or characteristic of a painter; artistic
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