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What does painterly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word painterly? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
  2. (of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes.
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They had in common the repudiation of such painterly qualities as expressive brush strokes and personalized facture.
Inspired by the client's guitar collection, the coruscating variations in colour and texture have a hypnotically intense, painterly quality.
This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images.
By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings.
Trygve's compositions are concerned with painterly colours and a gradual shifting of texture.
Stieglitz began to talk of banishing the painterly poetic fog from photography.

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