brushwork

noun

brush·​work ˈbrəsh-ˌwərk How to pronounce brushwork (audio)
: work done with a brush (as in painting)
especially : the characteristic work of an artist using a brush

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Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024 Interior of a Restaurant appeared in the 1950s, but specialists determined that the brushwork didn’t resemble the original style and that the colors were not a match with the artist’s palette from this time, which includes a Manganese blue synthetic pigment patented in 1935. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024 Her brushwork palpably wants to get away from theory and into making, into experience, into building something. Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024 Another bold choice for several artists associated with Impressionism was the display of their process—not just in the loose brushwork that let viewers see the movement of their hands over the canvas but in the presentation of multiple approaches to a single scene or subject. Allison C. Meier, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for brushwork 

Word History

First Known Use

1755, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of brushwork was in 1755

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“Brushwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brushwork. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.

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