painterliness

"To me this is painterliness, more so than Baroque art.

Then I understood those quick little shocks wouldn't kill my painterliness, they'd add to it.

Yet from the late 1980s, Oulton started to rein in her painterliness.

Much emphasis was placed on painterliness, technique and a renewed sense of spiritual purpose.

"I took away a lot of the painterliness just to deal more with the methodology of looking into the structure," he added.

The concept of 'painterliness' also has bearing on texture.

He revels in "writerliness" - like the "painterliness" an art critic might admire.

Even so, we respond to painterliness."

Spend a little time with them and these qualities are superseded, if not entirely dispelled, by a surprising fluidity and painterliness.

An image that is also a thing - a flag or target or map - is one way to subdue Expressionism while keeping painterliness.

Tiffany's favrile vases were simply one of the last stopping-off points before such painterliness entered the realm of painting proper.

She imbued their painterliness with a compositional and chromatic bravery that defiantly alarms us into grasping their beauty.

In recent years he has shifted to darker themes of disaster, disease and decapitation while retaining the consummate painterliness which is the hallmark of his work.

Known for the painterliness of his gardens, swamps and seascapes on canvas, Mr. Alexander shows here his forceful, old masterish drawing skills.

In painting it is painterliness, taking a liquid and putting it on with brush marks, and in sculpture it is the hardness of the stone.

Episodes of painterliness are important to these works, as in the Turneresque sky in "Spring," or the fireworks display of "The Picnic."

Explaining the painterliness of Impressionism as the sign of a diseased visual cortex, he decried modern degeneracy while praising traditional German culture.

The kitchen in which "Birthday" takes places is a kindred room, and Mr. DiGiovanni's painterliness lends itself very well to depicting peeling plaster.

Critic Clement Greenberg believed that flatness, or two-dimensionality, was an essential and desirable quality in painting, a criterion which implies rejection of painterliness and impasto.

Predominantly an abstract painter whose individual paintings cross the boundaries between the two dimensional and the three dimensional, gestural painterliness and flat monochrome blocks of colour.

In the 1960's, Mr. Held voted for geometry and cleaned up his paint handling, while Mr. Johns kept the painterliness and loosened up his compositions.

The bold painterliness of Mr. Brown's portraits, followed by others of James Cotton and John Lee Hooker, is intended to match the forthrightness of the music.

Willem de Kooning's vehement gestural abstraction had been exiled to art limbo, as had the work of Joan and others who sought to extend its painterliness, not rebel against it.

Abby Robinson, an American photographer, captures the painterliness of Indian culture at large, as found in architectural interiors featuring murals, vivid wall colors and decorations or simply clothes hung up to dry.

Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism, a style whose subtle painterliness reflects her attention to Manet and then to Cezanne, if not the Impressionists.