Painterly

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having qualities unique to the art of painting.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or being a style of painting marked by openness of form, with shapes distinguished by variations of color rather than by outline or contour.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a painter. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Like a painter's work.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
  • adjective. Having clear brush-strokes.
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  • adjective. having qualities unique to the art of painting
    • Word Usage
    "But now rehabilitation is complete and we see Sargent as an exultant master of characterisation and empathy, of colour and light, of shadow and the contre-jour effect (the subject seen against the light), and of the fat substantial paint to which the word painterly properly belongs."
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