painterly
Word family (noun) paint painter painting repaint (adjective) painterly (verb) paint repaint
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Painting and drawingpainterlypaint‧er‧ly /ˈpeɪntəli $ -tər-/ adjective written AVPtypical of painters or painting painterly imagesExamples from the Corpuspainterly• Here we are given an insight into the painterly decisions - sacrifices - to which artists often feel driven.• In both, Gironella is exploring the characters of the sitters as suggested in their portraits rather than the formal, painterly qualities.