Painterly

Synonyms for "painterly" (20 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Adjective(2 words)
artisticartistic talent
Noun(1 words)
artistic technique

Strong matches (6)

Adjective(5 words)

Related words (10)

Noun(4 words)
gainsboroughimpressionist inspiredlandscape paintingportrait style
Determiner(1 words)
most visual-art

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries
artistic styledescriptive writingliterary stylevisual art

More specific

4 entries
impressionisticloose brushworklush proselyrical prose

Collocations

6 entries
painterly brushworkpainterly compositionpainterly qualitypainterly shadingpainterly stylepainterly texture

Inflections

2 entries
more painterlymost painterly

Derivations

1 entries

similar

4 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

His paintings are explosions of curving lines, shapes and colors. In his art you can see every movement that his arm made. You can see how he had to move his body around the canvas. Videos of Pollock painting show this process, which looks like a painterly dance.

Source: tatoeba (12244115)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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