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An artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush
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brushwork
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By the time I had done the obligatory 20-minute brushwork on Vaquero, my arms ached. ▪ His expressionistic brushwork , scrapings in the paint and blurry edges endow the familiar bright land with an unfamiliar melancholy. ▪ In ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context painting English) The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
brushwork \brush"work`\ n. an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush.
Usage examples of brushwork.
Unlike the current style, in which the painter took pains to remove any trace of brushstroke from the painting, giving it a smooth glossy coat, Eleyna made her brushwork part of the texture of the painting.
The black cloak tore right down the middle and two mountainous clouds sailed sluggishly toward the brushwork, submerged and finally vanished in the motionless, rigid thicket.
The art is stark black and white, rendered with brush and ink in a style very reminiscent of Chinese brushwork, which would be apropos, since the story is based on a Chinese folktale.
A deft bit of brushwork revealed a rusted, rotten nineteenth-century umbrella, only its whalebone skeleton intact.
Even the tourist art was not all drudgery, because I learnt that working with representational paintings required a discipline of line, subject and brushwork that only increased the intensity of the tactile art I went to afterwards and which no one saw.
Martina's face, veiled by the hanging brushwork of her hair, inspected me from an upstairs window.
Muth's collaborator, John Kuramoto, has used words with the same stark simplicity as Muth's own brushwork and the book is a subsequent delight of understatement, both visually and in terms of its text.
In the morning, “Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael: Masterworks in the Louvre‘, and in the afternoon, ”Giorgione’s Concert Champetre and Titian’s Laura Dianti: The Cinquecento in Venice’, all to be accompanied by slides illuminating points of brushwork and technique.
Blue-black dados had dashing floral designs, painted with a sure hand and dramatic brushwork.