brushwork
noun
brush·work
ˈbrəsh-ˌwərk 
: work done with a brush (as in painting)
especially
: the characteristic work of an artist using a brush
Examples of brushwork in a Sentence
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Another school celebrated color and open brushwork, emphasizing texture, touch and movement.
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Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
That analysis revealed the details of the original brushwork used to create the flower's 3D illusion, which is no longer visible to the naked eye.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
His brushwork was guided not by the workings of discreet blotches of color under relatively even light conditions but by gradations of light and dark.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
The little scene’s tender fragility is paradoxically held together by a muscularity of brushwork, familiar from Abstract Expressionist canvases of monumental scale.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
Careful brushwork revealed not one human skeleton but 90, along with pieces of more than 200 others, all dated to a little more than 5,000 years ago.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
In his portrait of the perfectly arrogant Jasper Schade, a Dutch politician, the brushwork on the face is tightly thatched and then, as if Hals has suddenly swallowed a caffeine pill, a whole taffeta sleeve bursts into a lightning field.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Vanilla light pours through a small window where the only visible brushwork appears in ruffled window curtains, as if this is where busy life continues while all else is suspended in twilight.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
On the surface, there is a tender reminiscence to the piece, her careful, sweeping brushwork obscuring the faces and giving the painting the look of something barely perceptible and out of reach.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
That analysis revealed the details of the original brushwork used to create the flower's 3D illusion, which is no longer visible to the naked eye.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
His brushwork was guided not by the workings of discreet blotches of color under relatively even light conditions but by gradations of light and dark.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
The little scene’s tender fragility is paradoxically held together by a muscularity of brushwork, familiar from Abstract Expressionist canvases of monumental scale.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
Careful brushwork revealed not one human skeleton but 90, along with pieces of more than 200 others, all dated to a little more than 5,000 years ago.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
In his portrait of the perfectly arrogant Jasper Schade, a Dutch politician, the brushwork on the face is tightly thatched and then, as if Hals has suddenly swallowed a caffeine pill, a whole taffeta sleeve bursts into a lightning field.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Vanilla light pours through a small window where the only visible brushwork appears in ruffled window curtains, as if this is where busy life continues while all else is suspended in twilight.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
On the surface, there is a tender reminiscence to the piece, her careful, sweeping brushwork obscuring the faces and giving the painting the look of something barely perceptible and out of reach.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
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“Brushwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brushwork. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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