Painterly in a sentence

A painterly visual style is impeccably animated, making for a steampunk spectacle that powerfully expresses the emotional turmoil of its heroine.

It was painterly, and presented compelling contrasts.

Shot with a clean, painterly style that calls to mind historical epics of the '50s and '60s, ’s cinematography is an undeniable triumph.

All the painterly details can make it a little hard to navigate, but I loved making my way through all of its gooey alien locales, which are rich with vibrant flora.

Davies’s skill at short story writing is evident in this painterly and uncluttered novel.

Falkenstein’s mural amply demonstrates the painterly skills of an artist better known as a sculptor (a fine wall relief and four less interesting sculptures are also on view).

Rebel Moon, Part 1: A Child of Fire features stunningly imaginative visuals, painterly cinematography, an elegant score by Tom Holkenborg and several thrilling action sequences.

Together, he and Lucas fill the film with graphic, painterly shots that not only mesmerize, but also reinforce the film’s themes of systemic corruption.

Her 2013-14 series of nudes of young black men, called “Visible Man,” is especially striking, with its use of greens, pinks, oranges and reds, all in the service of expanding upon a painterly definition of blackness.

The 27 canvases featured in the Zwirner exhibition were noteworthy for their painterly skill, quotidian beauty and quiet humanity.

The drum shaped shade is crafted from rich mustard velvet with painterly floral motifs and is finished with a chic mustard fringe.

I did a studio undergrad, but I'm not a printmaker: I'm too painterly in my process (read as sloppy).

Its generally slow pacing and painterly composition recall the work of Robert Wilson, and the sprinkling of acrobatic balances and contortion is a little cirque nouveau.

That was definitely something I was thinking about — making something that kind of felt like a painting, or painterly, and just being able to control the shadows on him.

Franck Thévenon’s painterly lighting enhanced the semirealistic sets.

He homes in on a real quality in Rembrandt: his painterly indulgence and extravagance.

Clement Greenberg became the voice of post-painterly Abstraction when he curated an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.

Contour and pattern are more in the province of the linear artists, while dynamism is the most common trait of painterly works.

From the 1970s onwards, Burhan Dogancay photographed urban walls all over the world; these he then archived for use as sources of inspiration for his painterly works.

He briefly adopted a colorful, painterly style in 1943–44, an interlude known as his " Renoir Period", as a reaction to his feelings of alienation and abandonment that came with living in German-occupied Belgium.