How to Use brushwork in a Sentence

brushwork

noun

• A lot of this portrait’s charge comes from Titian’s brushwork.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• This is in contrast with the very smooth fluid brushwork of the rest of the still life scene.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• All of this is done in brushwork that is precise but not fussy, a wedge of light here, a wedge of light there.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• All five were painted at speed and with remarkably free brushwork.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• That success is driven less by brushwork than by network.
  — Magnus Resch, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• They are rendered in brushwork so swift, broad and easy that the oils look like preparations for something else, rather than finished work.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• One story has it that his first brushwork involved tar, which was used on the family farm for patching roofs and fixing drains.
  — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Bush’s brushwork will be on display at the Florida park for one year, starting in June.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Painted on burgundy velvet, the texture adds a depth to the painting’s seeming rough brushwork.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• Through modulations in brushwork, the audience observes the artist in the act of painting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• All riotous color and ebullient brushwork, the piece is the artist at his most robust, an unrepentant claiming of space.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• But finding the face hardly altered the tightly wound drama of Auerbach’s brushwork.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• Her masses of brushwork harbor small images, some intentional, some in the eye of the beholder.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Stardrum’s brushwork, sounding like a steam engine at low speed, keeps things from falling apart, but doesn’t put anything together, either.
  — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026
• The beauty of the brushwork and the virtuoso modulation of color and surface must have something to do with it.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• It could be interpreted as an ode to the season with its energetic brushwork and springtime palette of pink, sage, aqua and gold.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• Ariel loves all artforms but her ability and confidence with watercolor and brushwork is far beyond her years.
  — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
• His later paintings adopted a hotter and more vibrant palette, and his brushwork became freer and more confident.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 July 2022
• In a swirl of nimble, pale brushwork, the artist conjures up a figure from behind, gazing in the mirror, confecting herself.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• These painters, mostly women, have reclaimed the potency of active brushwork and visible gestures, which for so long had felt played out.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• Her free brushwork was particularly inspired by place and by the variations of color and light in the natural world.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• About 30 of the artists will be on-site showing brushwork, ceramics, fashion, fiber art and installations.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2024
• But for the veteran painter, who has perfected a very specific method of brushwork, looking at his work on a screen just isn’t the same as looking at it in person.
  — Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2021
• Your eyes and mind enter them easily and roam through the different layers of brushwork and narrative suggestion.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• Many of her paintings include circular elements that echo the shape of the planet while colors and swirling brushwork invoke the rhythmic motion of the sea.
  — Jeannie Denholm, Orange County Register, 18 Dec. 2019
• Rita Lewi’s brushwork is calligraphic, but her mountain scenes inject bold color into a show that’s largely black and white.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• Over time, fishers began embellishing the prints with brushwork, adding details omitted by the cruder dip-and-stick method, such as eyes or extra colors on scales.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
• Newcomers will be gobsmacked by the enormous scale, her bold, vibrant colors, the expressiveness of her brushwork.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• Using textured brushwork and a spectrum of color, Alkaaby paints each piece to feel something like a journey, a dreamlike stroll at twilight.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• The resulting movie relied on traditional illustration practices in the form of ink-wash art, layered brushwork, and rich colors.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2025