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
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