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单词 painterly
释义

painterly

[ peyn-ter-lee ]
/ ˈpeɪn tər li /

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
Fine Arts. characterized by qualities of color, stroke, or texture perceived as distinctive to the art of painting, especially the rendering of forms and images in terms of color or tonal relations rather than of contour or line.

Origin of painterly

First recorded in 1580–90; painter1 + -ly

Words nearby painterly

painted tongue, painted trillium, painted turtle, painted woman, painter, painterly, painter's colic, paint horse, painting, paint oneself into a corner, paint pot
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Example sentences from the Web for painterly

  • Whatever else anyone may say about him, he had probably the most painterly eye of any movie director.

    Monument Valley From the Eyes of a Krazy Kat and John Ford Fan|Malcolm Jones|February 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
  • Together, they're a portrait of Hopper—an assortment of memories and places organized around his cinematic and painterly eye.

    Dennis Hopper's Cinematic Art|Isabel Wilkinson|July 13, 2010|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for painterly

painterly
/ (ˈpeɪntəlɪ) /

adjective

having qualities peculiar to painting, esp the depiction of shapes by means of solid masses of colour, rather than by linesCompare linear (def. 5)
of or characteristic of a painter; artistic
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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