painterlyadj.adv.
/ˈpeɪntəli/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)ərli/ rare before 20th cent.† B. adv.
A. adj.
1. Like, or relating to, a painter; characteristic of a painter; artistic. Also figurative and in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adjective] > characteristic of painter
painterlya1586
painter-like1611
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H7 It was a very white and red vertue, which you could pick out of a painterly glosse of a visage.
1822 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 261 How well made up—how painterly!
1837 H. Coleridge Let. Sept. (1936) 213 His poems..exhibit three distinct phases, not perhaps strictly distributable in order of time, yet capable of the painterly classification of first, second, and last manner.
1941 Times 14 May 7/4 He painted architectural subjects in a highly personal way, showing remarkable painterly gifts.
1950 Eng. Stud. 31 166 One should not forget the exciting Kiplingesque rhythm..or the painterly qualities of the dramatic, colourful poem of Cummerbund, the monster of India.
1978 P. Porter Cost of Seriousness 2 Masts for Woodbridge Crowd three degrees of the horizon, edging A painterly Dutch sky.
2002 New Republic 30 Sept. 40/1 It is perfectly possible to disagree with Garrard's ideas about Gentileschi's technique and her painterly psychology without being an apologist for the patriarchy.
2. spec. Of a painting or style of painting: characterized by qualities of colour, stroke, and texture rather than of contour or line. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > gradual passing from one to another
sfumato1847
painterly1932
malerisch1933
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles
plangent1666
dry1695
sticky1753
flat1755
spotty1798
touchy1809
definitive1815
edgy1825
painty1827
scratchy1827
unideal1838
tinglish1855
generalist1858
tinny1877
Christmas-cardy1883
tinty1883
surfacy1887
chocolate box1892
chocolate-boxy1894
Christmas card1895
juicy1897
candy box1898
pastose1901
busy1909
pompier1914
posterish1914
painterly1932
X-ray1940
illusional1942
all-over1948
figurative1960
hard-edge1961
1932 M. D. Hottinger tr. H. Wölfflin Princ. Art Hist. Introd. 3 In the painterly style [Ger. in dem malerischen Stil] of the Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century. [Note] Malerisch. This word has, in the German, two distinct meanings, one objective, a quality residing in the object, the other subjective, a mode of apprehension and creation. To avoid confusion, they have been distinguished in English as ‘picturesque’ and ‘painterly’ respectively.
1941 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 4 89 Fouquet's modelling..leaves the shading uncovered, open, in the manner of a free drawing... It is indeed a technique which foreshadows the painterly methods of Watteau and even the Impressionists.
1973 F. Taubes Painter's Dict. 176 Botticelli is a linear painter, whilst Rembrandt's work would be considered painterly.
1991 Photo Answers Feb. 85/4 Scotch Chrome 1000 [film] is great, especially when used with a diffuser, when it can give an almost painterly effect.
In a manner appropriate to a painter; artistically. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adverb]
pictorically1761
painterly1822
1822 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 248 A painterly arranged exclamation of this kind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.adv.a1586