Painterly a. : Like a painter's work.Example:Taxonomypainterly, painting, painterliness, brushstrokes, art, free encyclopedia, paint, watercolors, malerisch, art historians, three dimensionality, drawing, chromatic, tones, Swiss art, understanding of art, Abstract expressionism, viewer experience.Defination from the web:Painterly is a translation of the German term malerisch, one of the opposed categories popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864 ... An oil painting is "painterly" when there are visible "brush strokes", the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled manner, ...
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