Painterliness

For all that, Sherman's shots still trade on a kind of painterliness, the stiff poses and Her-Majesty-the-Queen gestures of her subjects as instantly recognisable an attribute of big bucks as palms and haloes are of martyrdom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the same time, Hals's celebration of the materiality of his medium is so seductive that sheer painterliness often overrides all other concerns, including the fact that his subjects are often blunt-featured, fleshy, self-satisfied types whose company you might not seek. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

But the best paintings here are meticulously constructed, adapting the atmospheric painterliness of the French impressionists to the dank industrial terraces of north-west England. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Beyond their technical curiosity (the painterliness of his color, the angles he achieved on certain outdoor shots), Miller's photos jar for their very familiarity, or their near-familiarity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Consistently working from photographic sources - some of them gently tweaked in Photoshop - McKenzie demonstrated formalist inclinations and a knack for alternating between visual clarity and painterliness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More and more, however, Sorolla pushed traditional portraiture toward abstraction by giving sheer painterliness the upper hand over likeness. ❋ Barbara Rose (2009)

By comparison to the sheer painterliness, richness and varied palettes of their East Coast Abstract Expressionist cousins (Joan Mitchell, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler), the colors of the California painters seem brighter, their lines sharper, and their edges cleaner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we look in vain for such passionate exponents of the figure as Fairfield Porter, Bob Thompson, Euan Uglow or Graham Nickson, all of whom, with differing ­degrees of painterliness, created fierce dramas out of concentrated scrutiny of the body. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bald plot caters to the first; style, wit of expression, truth of observation, vivid painterliness, brooding musicality, and all the commendable rest pay court to the second. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Love all the painterliness as usual too, always worth clinking for the enlargement. ❋ William Wray (2008)

"Dumb," I say, because whenever Freud renders mattress ticking, armchair leather, or floorboards (his daily vegetables: "My world is fairly floorboardish"), his brush naively falls in with the grain of the material; and that runs quite against the grain of the Old Master "painterliness" he is sometimes alleged to revive. ❋ Bell, Julian (2008)

Bellany apparently has a taste for the painterliness of the Scottish Colourists, Hunter and J. D.Fergusson, who invigorated Scottish painting in the early 20th century with their sense of colour inspired by the French post ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is most incredible about this dominating triptych, cracked and faded as it is, is the combination of its very painterliness (remember too that nothing like it would be seen in painting for thirty years) with its complete sense of finality; "Enough of painting … it is as useless as a church … it is time to build." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like the painterliness of the hills upon hills and the soft peach-yellow of the sky in this scene. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had always admired "Barry Lyndon" more than I actively loved it, until a gorgeous restored print at London's BFI Southbank earlier this year awakened me to the intricate painterliness of its compositions and near-hypnotic stateliness of its pacing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though painterliness was a quality disdained by most modernists, Bacon realized this was the element that would enable him to tweak the onlooker's senses into accepting and indeed enjoying a painful visual shock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sensation is not merely of Watteau's exquisite painterliness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I am making a very [painterly] style [rainbow]" "[the looks] very painterly" ❋ *pxstolla* (2020)

This [seashell] is [painterly]? .___. ❋ Killer Coffee (2020)

[Wow], that is [quite] [pAiNtErLy] ❋ Ellie The Freaking Potato Pie (2020)

The [mural] looked very [painterly] once it was [finished]. ❋ ElloLuvs (2020)

The [artist] [claimed] their art was "[painterly]." ❋ Cbg12345 (2018)

[Verb]: im feeling [painterly] [right now]! Noun: that looks painterly! ❋ {WhamBam-ItzCam} (2020)

His [painting] [skills] are very [painterly] ❋ Rainbows Rule (2020)

Wow! Look at my painting! [Isn't it] so.... uh....[ummm]........uh.....[painterly]? ❋ Sunny Weirdness (2020)

This is [vary] [painterly]. [I love how] my… looks painterly ❋ Seltra_001 (2022)

[The way] she [draws] seems very [painterly]. ❋ Artificial Carrot (2020)