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

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adjective

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of painterly¹

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

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The line brings to life the garden’s delicate wildflowers and rippling fountains in playful, painterly prints, featuring blossoming orange poppies and deep purple lily pads.

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Adding to the mystique is a painterly palette of primary colors.

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Goode’s painterly retort — still lifes that held the abstract and the figurative in taut equilibrium — brilliantly neutralized that argument, while adding depth to the object/image dichotomy.

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The painterly technique would inform later generations of artists like Édouard Manet, Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent.

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You know you’re in for something different from the opening frames as the film’s painterly look is revealed.

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painter painter's colic

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