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brushwork

[ UK /bɹˈʌʃwɜːk/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹəʃˌwɝk/ ]
NOUN
  1. an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush

How To Use brushwork In A Sentence

  • These elements are set against a large field in shades of pink, swept with arabesques of grays and dashes of white, sometimes with light impasto in the brushwork.
  • Look at its Corot-esque, grey tonality and its fleeting brushwork.
  • Even as the animated brushwork makes them teeter on the edge of abstraction, these works have the natural light of 19 th-century plein-air paintings.
  • He also would have admired Swihart's recent paintings: callipygian female nudes, with no traces of visible brushwork. John Seed: Jon Swihart: Jean-Leon Gerome Is His Master
  • Hourglass repeats this brushwork in more, colors, including green and lavender, and with shorter, thinner strokes that in their numerousness convey a feeling of frenzy that's amplified by the uneven diagonal sides of the canvases.
  • Instead, he often chose subjects from the kitchen table and gave them their own character through expressive brushwork and bold colors.
  • The fine brushwork figure painting goes through a flexuous exploration process . 3.
  • A nocturnal theme is worked out in the flat but vigorous brushwork of a number of paintings included in all these exhibitions, and in the prints as well.
  • There is a guilty pleasure in looking at these paintings, which do things the old-fashioned way, providing the visual gratifications of color, light, brushwork and subject matter that we have been taught to dismiss.
  • The detailed work we did in those classes was admirably complemented by the broader brushwork of Patrick Gardiner's lectures on German Idealism.
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