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brushwork

/bruhsh-wurk/US // ˈbrʌʃˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈbrʌʃˌwɜːk) //

笔法,笔触,画笔,笔画

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the use of a brush as a tool, as in painting.
    • : Fine Arts. the surface quality of a painting produced by the distribution of pigment with a brush.
    • : work for which a brush is used, as painting.

Examples

  • Now we can see the wonderful looseness of his brushwork as well.

  • The florid brushwork of a Constable gets hypertrophied in Freud, into a kind of gross exaggeration of what unleashed paint can do.

  • "Rejected Addresses," exhibited in 1870, has all Pettie's charm of colour and fluent brushwork.

  • Be it an ancient or modern episode, the story could be told in the tone and with well-nigh the brushwork of Van Dyck.

  • Vance is one of the few who unite gusto and patience, fancy and brushwork.

  • It is as indifferent to the kind of brushwork used by the painter, as to the variety of chisel handled by the sculptor.

  • His brushwork was so rapid and decisive that in scarcely any of his designs is there evidence of deliberation.