单词 | matière |
释义 | matièren. Chiefly Art. Matter, substance; (Art) paint viewed as imparting physical texture to a painting; the way in which paint is applied by an artist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints > quality given to pigment matière1915 1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting xiv. 320 De Vlaminck has a rich and compelling matière and an art sense which is almost coquettish. 1921 R. Fry in New Statesman 29 Jan. 503/2 In the Nature Morte..he [sc. Picasso] has gained a certain plastic quality by the extraordinary contrasts of matière. 1960 Times 12 May 10/5 Dubuffet has experimented with the potentialities of matière in his paintings. 1963 Guardian 29 Feb. 9/2 Kossoff struggles with his grotesquely sensual matiere like a Vietnamese trooper slurping in the mud of a rice paddy. 1971 Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 19 Lecture Four. The matiere of verse demonstrated further in Wallace Stevens. 1990 Friends of Wine Spring 29/1 To extract from the supple Merlot grape sufficient matière and structure for the finished wine to have real aging potential. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1915 |
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