Definition of Painterly

1. Adjective. Having qualities unique to the art of painting.

Category relationships: Beaux Arts, Fine Arts
Similar to: Aesthetic, Aesthetical, Esthetic, Esthetical
Derivative terms: Painter

Definition of Painterly

1. a. Like a painter's work.

Definition of Painterly

1. Adjective. Characteristic of a painter or paintings. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Painterly

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Painterly

painted snipes
painted terrapin
painted tongue
painted tortoise
painted turtle
painted wolf
painted wolves
painter
painter's colic
painter's tape
painter's tapes
painteries
painterless
painterliness
painterlinesses
painterly
painters
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paintier
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painting
painting by numbers
painting out
painting rocks
paintinglike
paintings

Literary usage of Painterly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"Painterly alphabets: Theo Kurpershoek and Nicolaas Wijnberg The Amsterdam painters ... Other Salamander covers featured his own painterly illustrations, ..."

2. 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting by Linda S. Boersma (1994)
"Painterly Realism of a Football-Player - Colour Masses in the 4th Dimension 41. ... Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions 44. ..."

3. New Dictionary of South African Biography by E. J. Verwey, Nelson Mandela (1995)
"From the beginning, however, the outstanding painterly effects and sensitivity to colour were the most important characteristics of her work. ..."

4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1822)
"How finely coloured, how very rich, exuberant,and juicy—how well made up—how painterly ! This last tack has brought him nearer to the gorgeous port of ..."

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