1. painterly - Adjective
2. painterly - Adjective Satellite
Like a painter's work.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity. Asger Jorn
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. Marshall McLuhan
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. Frank Stella
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. Buffy Sainte-Marie
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. Jerry Saltz