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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.
Jerry Saltz

Meaning of "painterly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PAINTERLY

painterly  [ˈpeɪntəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAINTERLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Painterly is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PAINTERLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Painterliness

Painterliness is a concept based on the German term malerisch, a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin in order to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art. It is the opposite of linear, plastic or formal linear design. An oil painting is painterly when there are visible brushstrokes, the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled manner, generally without closely following carefully drawn lines. Works characterized as either painterly or linear can be produced with any painting media, oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, etc. Some artists whose work could be characterized as painterly are Pierre Bonnard, Francis Bacon, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir, and John Singer Sargent. In watercolor it might be represented by the early watercolors of Andrew Wyeth.

Definition of painterly in the English dictionary

The definition of painterly in the dictionary is of or characteristic of a painter; artistic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAINTERLY


coincidentally
kəʊˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ
dentally
ˈdɛntəlɪ
developmentally
dɪˌveləpˈmentəlɪ
elementally
ˌelɪˈmentəlɪ
environmentally
ɪnˌvaɪərənˈmentəlɪ
frontally
ˈfrʌntəlɪ
fundamentally
ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəlɪ
governmentally
ˌɡʌvənˈmɛntəlɪ
horizontally
ˌhɒrɪˈzɒntəlɪ
incidentally
ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ
incrementally
ˌɪnkrɪˈmentəlɪ
instrumentally
ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəlɪ
judgmentally
dʒʌdʒˈmɛntəlɪ
mentally
ˈmentəlɪ
monumentally
ˌmɒnjʊˈmentəlɪ
ornamentally
ˌɔːnəˈmɛntəlɪ
parentally
pəˈrentəlɪ
sentimentally
ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪ
temperamentally
ˌtɛmpərəˈmɛntəlɪ
winterly
ˈwɪntəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAINTERLY

paintballing
paintbox
paintbrush
painted
Painted Desert
painted hunting dog
painted lady
painted woman
painter
painter and decorator
painter´s colic
painterliness
paintiness
painting
painting and decorating
paintpot
paintress
painture
paintwork
painty

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAINTERLY

bitterly
clouterly
daughterly
easterly
formerly
headmasterly
latterly
masterly
northeasterly
northwesterly
quarterly
sinisterly
sisterly
souterly
southeasterly
southwesterly
spinsterly
utterly
westerly
whoremasterly
writerly

Synonyms and antonyms of painterly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «painterly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAINTERLY

Find out the translation of painterly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of painterly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «painterly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绘画
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pictórico
570 millions of speakers

English

painterly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चित्रात्मक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تصويري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

живописно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pictórico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চিত্রশিল্পীর বা চিত্রের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pictural
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

malerische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

絵画的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Painterly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

họa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

painterly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चित्रकारपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tablomsu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pittorica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

malarski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

живописно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pictural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζωγραφικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skilderkunstige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

painterly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maleriske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of painterly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAINTERLY»

The term «painterly» is regularly used and occupies the 62.367 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAINTERLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about painterly

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5 QUOTES WITH «PAINTERLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word painterly.
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Marlene Dumas
There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
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Jerry Harrison
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.
3
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
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Jerry Saltz
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.
5
Frank Stella
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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAINTERLY»

Discover the use of painterly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to painterly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Painterly Approach: An Artist's Guide To Seeing, ...
This book focuses on abstract pattern rather than on actual objects, on relationships between shapes rather than on detail, and on provoking an emotional response rather than absolute realism.
Bob Rohm, 2008
2
Painterly Approach
Explains how to concentrate on the painting as a whole rather than on details and discusses pastels, oils, and subjects
Mary Beth Mckenzie, 1987
3
Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The ...
Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational ...
Charles Altieri, 1989
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Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, ...
"Kaufmann situates Maulbertsch as a fresco painter at a time of transition to easel painting, a colorist at a time when color was not fully appreciated by contemporary observers, and an interpreter of religious themes at a time when secular ...
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 2005
5
Painterly Perspective and Piety: Religious Uses of the ...
While the Renaissance is generally perceived to be a secular movement, the majority of large artworks executed in 15th century Italy were from ecclesiastical commissions.
John F. Moffitt, 2008
6
Monotype: Mediums and Methods for Painterly Printmaking
Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.
Julia Ayres, 2001
7
Painter X for Photographers: Creating Painterly Images Step ...
The only Painter book written directly for photographers!
Martin Addison, 2009
8
The Late Paintings of Velázquez: Theorizing Painterly ...
Knox presents a Velázquez who was much more aware of the art theory of his era than previously acknowledged, leading to his new interpretation of these works as representing together a polemically charged celebration of the handedness of ...
Giles Knox, 2009
9
Painterly Plants
Each chapter focuses on an enduringly popular plant and its most spectacular varieties, providing a history – including its artistic history – with plenty of lively anecdotal information, and a key botanical illustration that is ...
Clare Foster, 2012
10
Painterly Photography: Awakening the Artist Within
" To encourage the reader to become acquainted with his or her own "artist within, " the book clearly explains what cameras, instruments, and materials to use to follow Murray's technique.
Elizabeth Murray, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAINTERLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term painterly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Daredevil kicked off a wrongheaded trend in comic-book-movie …
Whatever Elektra's faults (and it has plenty), its approach to adapting comics characters is more painterly than Daredevil's, with effective use of ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
2
Haunted by the Present: Pedro Costa's 'Horse Money'
Shot digitally and printed onto painterly 35mm, the film was a revelation — at once a teeming, Brueghelesque work of social portraiture and ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
3
Tom Ford Makes Teal Shadow Cool Again
Painterly strokes of azure were stunning at Céline's Fall '15 show, as were the two-tone eyes at Karen Walker. And the graphic wings crafted by ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
4
The miracle of “The Black Stallion”
I had never seen anything like it – especially the first half with its painterly scenes between the boy and the horse – including a fiery opening ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Jul 15»
5
New Monuments Forget the Future at Birch Contemporary
A progressive journey toward painterly deconstruction can be seen in the works of Howard Lonn, in which architectural elements are ... «Canadian Architect, Jul 15»
6
Peter Saul mines taboos, vulgarity in antic works
In their gauche immediacy and painterly dash, they seem to anticipate Philip Guston's later figurative work. And it's hard to imagine that Saul's ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
7
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Ed Moses
His painterly vocabulary has incorporated grids, gestural marks, monochrome, polychrome, and sculptural objects. During our day together, ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
8
Watercolors Brought To Life
As she looked closely at “Upper Falls of the Reichenbach: Rainbow,” she pointed out precisely where in the painterly strokes of color making ... «New Haven Independent, Jul 15»
9
Anthony Caro: The shaping of a radical
Known as post-painterly abstractionists, they were reacting against the emotion of the Abstract Expressionists by using colour and form to say ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
10
Family portraits take center stage in home decor
The photo was manipulated to reflect a painterly technique that gives the image the sense of a one-of-a-kind work of art. For another photo ... «Visalia Times-Delta, Jul 15»

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