How to Use brushwork in a Sentence

brushwork

noun

• This is in contrast with the very smooth fluid brushwork of the rest of the still life scene.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• But Munch knew how to put bones on his brisk brushwork.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• A lot of this portrait’s charge comes from Titian’s brushwork.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 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
• His brushwork in the 1950s was often thick and luscious.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 10 Apr. 2022
• Their brushwork is thin-skinned, and there is much else going on: thin lines often border these fields or cut through them.
  — Roberta Smith and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• All five were painted at speed and with remarkably free brushwork.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Does its brushwork contain some clue to hidden treasure, or a secret code?
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The art also nods to Davis’s smooth watercolor brushwork.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Bazille’s brushwork is beautiful — and very Manet-esque.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• From the adorable illustration of the foxes, to the detailed brushwork on the pumpkins, we're absolutely floored with this design.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her masses of brushwork harbor small images, some intentional, some in the eye of the beholder.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 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
• Or Eugène Delacroix, who wrestled color with brushwork like Jacob wrestling with the angel in Genesis.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
• 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
• The trompe l’oeil artist amplifies the illusion through the choice of subjects and the mastery of brushwork, light effects, foreshortening and other techniques.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Although Chardin’s style did not evolve consistently across the genres, passages of fluid brushwork—as seen in the creamy white cards—have led some to propose a later date on stylistic grounds as well.
  — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024