painterliness

8.4

Visible brush marks and thick paint that make a picture look made by hand

noun
/ˈpeɪntərliˌnəs/

Specialized

: pintoresquismo

The photographer's use of natural light added a beautiful painterliness to the portrait, making it look like a classic painting.

Examples

Many scholars have become interested in the question of Gutai's painterliness, arguing that even their performance work was ultimately a means to investigate the nature of painting.

Academic text (2013)
In the film, the director employs a unique painterliness to enhance the emotional impact of the scenes.
The artist's new exhibition showcases a stunning painterliness that draws viewers into the depth of each canvas.

Synonyms

brushwork

vspainterliness

4 7.1

The way an artist moves a brush to put paint on a surface

is about an overall painted appearance rather than only the application method

pictorialism

vspainterliness

Specialized

8.9

A style of photography that makes photos look like paintings

emphasizes visible strokes and texture rather than composition or general beauty

Antonyms

smoothness

1 2.6

How something works without pauses or problems

flatness

Specialized

1 4.2

A painting or surface with little shine and depth

How Painterly

painterliness

Specialized

8.4

dry brush

Specialized

1 5.1

brushwork

4 7.1

superrealism

Specialized

8.2

Surface Forms

painterliness singular

painterlinesses plural

Morphology

painterliness = painterly (transparent) = paint + er + ly + ness

Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ness' to 'painterly', so the noun straightforwardly denotes the quality of being painterly.

Etymology

Painterliness comes from paint, meaning 'to cover with color', and painter, a person who paints, plus the ending -ness, which means 'quality of'. So painterliness is the 'quality of' looking like a painting, with visible brushstrokes and rich texture.