painterly
adjEtymology From painter + -ly.
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Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
- 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.1982 August 28, Andrea Loewenstein, “Becker's Experience Talks Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 11:
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Of a painting Having clear brush-strokes.
- Derived terms
- painterliness, postpainterly, unpainterly