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Brushwork   Listen
noun
brushwork  n.  An artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Brushwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... being a sweet and stupid swan (or a white rabbit) by the same sign that he is a noble and stupid greyhound. Be it an ancient or modern episode, the story could be told in the tone and with well-nigh the brushwork ...
— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay

... sympathy, and we all expect to find portraits which do not interest us, because the interpreter has been at fault, and has failed in his vision. With the born craftsman, who always gives us beautiful brushwork, we do not expect these inequalities, but with Mr. Yeats technical power is not the most prominent characteristic. He broods or dreams over his sitters, and his meditation always tends to the discovery of some spiritual or intellectual life in them, or ...
— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell



Words linked to "Brushwork" :   technique



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