Brushwork

In the Christie 's painting, the brushwork is a bit busier, and David' s sweater is a lighter blue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He does exceptionally good figure work (full figured?) with a perfectly spartan but juicy brushwork and fairly unfettered backgrounds ... everything I do NOT do ... hmmm .. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Characterized by expressive brushwork, as seen in the jar above, buncheong's stoneware clay and decorative motifs were eclipsed in the late 16th century by more refined porcelain courtware. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Van Dyck's brushwork is rapid, especially for the horse's glazed whiteness. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

This touring exhibition presents his unusual full-scale oil sketches and studies, which are often credited with demonstrating an early avant-garde sensibility, due to his expressively broad and forceful brushwork. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And their manic brushwork, activating surface, not form, is more affected than purposeful. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

Painting fast and loose, she renounces exactitude to embrace clunky, restless brushwork that fuses painterly glee with exasperated rage, setting the explosions adrift from both their geographical and their political contexts. ❋ Sharon L. Butler (2010)

After all, Scully is one of those uncompromising painters who long ago hit on an aesthetic riff: there's the bold arrangements of vertical and horizontal bars, the earthy, muted and melancholic colours, and the soft-edged and seductive brushwork. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. O'Sullivan and I liked the plates with abstracted flower patterns overlaid with gilded outlines of Delftware vessels ($518), and the vases and bowls with overlapping streaks of denim-colored paint inspired by Chinese brushwork ($328 for a small fluted bowl). ❋ Julie Lasky (2012)

Their discoveries—including Bellini's compositional changes, surprisingly bravura brushwork, fingerprints and underdrawing, as well as the revelation that he anticipated some of the innovations attributed to his greatest students, Giorgione and Titian—are the focus of the Frick's boutique show "In a New Light: Bellini's 'St. Francis in the Desert.'" ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

Their compositions, activated by illusionistic plays of light and wet-on-wet brushwork, function as vessels for the movement of paint itself: for hue, viscosity, and the relationship between hand and medium. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

Combining blunt trauma with tender devotion, Mr. Kossoff wields bravado brushwork through viscous paint to weave, or bind, subject and environment. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

But we're equally engaged by the audacious, staccato brushwork with which the artist, Giovanni Battista Moroni, conjured up those emblems of wealth, contrasting the stabbing marks of costume and gems with the smooth rendering of face and hair. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

To see Caravaggio's brushwork up close, head to the Borghese Gallery. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2012)

And we haven't even rehung the artwork yet; Mom'll come by tomorrow to do a third coat on some of the places where finer brushwork was needed so coverage was more difficult. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At first glance, his 1945 "Whispering Rain at Dusk" seems like a Ming-era mountain scene, but its loose brushwork hews closer to action painting, the spontaneous style typically associated with abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)

Could it be that the reputation of Mr. Marin, whose subject matter is as American as his briskly improvisational brushwork, suffers from our nagging sense of cultural inferiority? ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

This is an art of meticulous and laborious brushwork, even when—as in the work of perhaps the best-known of these artists, Ed Paschke—there's the suggestion of airbrushed surfaces, along with the garish colors and scale that become part of the puzzle in deciphering what is elusive, if evident, imagery. ❋ Tom L. Freudenheim (2011)