单词 | paintingness |
释义 | paintingnessn. rare. (a) Pictorial quality. (b) The fact or condition of being a painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > capability of being painted paintingness1801 paintableness1885 1801 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 374 One cannot enough praise the expression and paintingness of the style. 1959 A. Eliot Sight & Insight xv. 162 In Braque's still-lifes, the fruits are intended to be seen as..parts of the painting itself... The apple's appleness is sacrificed, deliberately, to the painting's paintingness. 1996 M. Schor Wet (1997) iv. 174 The art-ness, the painting-ness of painting can be a viable language to speak current ideas. 2002 Korea Times (Nexis) 5 Mar. In Asia artists have tended to express the ‘inner essence’ of what is depicted, rather than its exterior form... It does seem as though Lee is attempting to nail down the ‘paintingness’ of painting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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