Painterly

Synonyms for "painterly" (6 found)

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  • pentra adj (characteristic of a painter or paintings)

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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.

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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.

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