Painterly in a Sentence
  • I like the contradiction between the craft of working with metal, and the very painterly image which I aim to achieve on paper.
  • His surfaces might be worked to display an almost painterly plane that suggests refracted light, with a remarkable range of color.
  • Like club music, the work repeats, loops and returns over a rhythm of slapstick laced with formal, painterly considerations.
  • The painterly adaptations of her sources impede our ability to read the image as transparent; their surfaces are literally rendered opaque.