Painting. The quality or state of being thickly painted.

Lightness or distinctness of strokes in the composition of a painting, drawing, etc. Cf. touchy, adj. 4. Obsolete.

A style of painting in which the subject is a specific scene, situation, or moment in time, depicted in naturalistic and atmospheric detail…

The dislike of leaving empty spaces, e.g. in an artistic composition.

In the fine arts: The representation of the structure and minute moulding of a surface (esp. of the skin), as distinct from its colour: cf. 4b.

minute exactness as of a daguerreotype.

The fact or quality of being painterly.

Non-figurative work or technique.

The quality or fact of being simultaneous; occurrence at the same time. Also spec. in Art, the simultaneous representation of several views of the…

a style of abstract painting which came to prominence in the 1960s, characterized by sharply defined geometric shapes and blocks of bright colour…

The figurative style of painting. Cf. figurative, adj. 2b.

A style of abstract art typically featuring paintings having large expanses of unmodulated colour covering the greater part of the canvas. Also: a…