Painterly
adjective
Copying or acting like a painter.
She has a painterly style of photographing landscapes.
Often appears as...
- painterly style
- painterly approach
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Artistic
adjective
Like a painting in richness or colorfulness.
The sunset tonight was particularly painterly.
Often appears as...
- painterly landscape
- painterly sunset
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Artistic
adjective
Copying or acting like a painter.
She has a painterly style of photographing landscapes.
Often appears as...
- painterly style
- painterly approach
Usage tips
Artistic
adjective
Like a painting in richness or colorfulness.
The sunset tonight was particularly painterly.
Often appears as...
- painterly landscape
- painterly sunset
Usage tips
Artistic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Imitating Art
Used when someone's work closely imitates traditional painting styles or techniques.
Her portrait has a distinctly painterly touch, reminiscent of the old masters.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Flair
Indicates an artistic and creative approach similar to painting in non-painting contexts.
The chef's painterly presentation of the dish made it a feast for the eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Expression
Highlights a method of expressing creativity that resonates with painting.
The dance performance was imbued with a painterly expression of emotion.
Pro Tip 1/3Imitating Art
Used when someone's work closely imitates traditional painting styles or techniques.
Her portrait has a distinctly painterly touch, reminiscent of the old masters.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Flair
Indicates an artistic and creative approach similar to painting in non-painting contexts.
The chef's painterly presentation of the dish made it a feast for the eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Expression
Highlights a method of expressing creativity that resonates with painting.
The dance performance was imbued with a painterly expression of emotion.
Pro Tip 1/3Imitating Art
Used when someone's work closely imitates traditional painting styles or techniques.
Her portrait has a distinctly painterly touch, reminiscent of the old masters.
Pro Tip 2/3Artistic Flair
Indicates an artistic and creative approach similar to painting in non-painting contexts.
The chef's painterly presentation of the dish made it a feast for the eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Creative Expression
Highlights a method of expressing creativity that resonates with painting.
The dance performance was imbued with a painterly expression of emotion.
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The Power of Photography...
dead grass it's almost a painterly effect and the Grand Tetons on a sidewalk
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The Power of Photography...
dead grass it's almost a painterly effect and the Grand Tetons on a sidewalk
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Quote examples
Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
American Dancer
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.
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Jerry Harrison
American Musician
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
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Frank Stella
American Artist
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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Jeff Giles
American Editor
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
American Musician
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
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Marlene Dumas
South African Artist
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
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Debi Gliori
Scottish Writer
Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
American Dancer
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.
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Jerry Harrison
American Musician
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
Quote examples
Frank Stella
American Artist
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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Jeff Giles
American Editor
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
Quote examples
Buffy Sainte-Marie
American Musician
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
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Marlene Dumas
South African Artist
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
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