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brushstrokes

n. (plural of brushstroke English)

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Brushstrokes

Brushstrokes is a 1965 oil and Magna on canvas pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It is the first element of the Brushstrokes series of artworks that includes several paintings and sculptures. As with all of his Brushstrokes works, it is in part a satirical response to the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism.

Brushstrokes (sculpture)

Brushstrokes is a 1996 sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, installed at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. It is part of the Brushstrokes series of artworks that includes several paintings and sculptures whose subject is the actions made with a house-painter's brush.

by Roy Lichtenstein - Portland Art Museum (2013).JPG|Plaque

Usage examples of "brushstrokes".

These are elaborate mind pictures, lovingly rendered in brushstrokes of pink.

I listened to the brushstrokes, the Japanese music of her insides, the light whirr of silence.

A string of electric bulbs ran the length of the hall at either side and the bulbs were covered with paper bags that had been painted and the brushstrokes showed through in the light and the reds and greens and blues were all muted and much of a piece.

Each page was covered with fine brushstrokes, column upon column of neatly arranged characters.

But now behold the hot Lawrence with a hundredweight of hot horseflesh clenched between his thighs, with the fat and frightening Frieda on the next saddle along, thundering through the spark-shower and crimson brushstrokes of Popacatapetl .

The design on the wall, Kujira, was the Japanese word for whale, and the technique, the flowing, stiff-armed brushstrokes of ink, was called sumi.

And finally there is the matter of style, the requirement that the style employed -- the force, roughness, of refinement of the brushstrokes, etc.