(1) It was like someone had dipped a paintbrush into the potato, wiped off the excess and then artistically brushed it over the plate in a painterly style, perhaps like early Picasso, or Van Gogh.(2) The paint is always thick, and Spruell's painterly touch is rather blunt (to the point of being terse).(3) It cannot be seen at face value, as merely the making of a valid work of art out of anything that is at hand, its graphic and painterly qualities notwithstanding.(4) By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings.(5) As Denton and Une vie mystique illustrate, Cisse works in a theatrical painterly style, juxtaposing seemingly disparate subjects and images.(6) He is certainly painterly in his style, building up a web of images yet leaving the reader to their own observations.(7) Today, he is well known for his vibrant color floral prints which have a painterly quality.(8) To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.(9) In the 1930s, Heliker made landscapes in a Cezannesque painterly style.(10) Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via personalized line, color and brushstroke.(11) Cleary is not a painterly artist; indeed, she goes to great effort to conceal her method of execution.(12) Frankenthaler has returned to prints at many stages in her career, despite the fact that prints would seem to be the medium least sympathetic to her painterly style.(13) The most significant departure from this painterly orthodoxy is his shift from canvas to blocks made of plaster or wood.(14) Foss here presents us with a summa of the painterly realist effort in her gentle abstracting of landscape form and color that goes for the soul.(15) Louise Fishman's recent exhibition reinforced her reputation as a painter unafraid to both carry on and challenge the traditions of painterly abstraction.(16) They had in common the repudiation of such painterly qualities as expressive brush strokes and personalized facture.
