Debi Gliori

Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

Scottish Writer

Jerry Saltz

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

American Critic

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

American Dancer

Jerry Harrison

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

American Musician

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Frank Stella

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

American Artist

Jeff Giles

Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

American Editor

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

Marlene Dumas

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

South African Artist

Used when someone's work closely imitates traditional painting styles or techniques.

Imitating Art

Indicates an artistic and creative approach similar to painting in non-painting contexts.

Artistic Flair

Highlights a method of expressing creativity that resonates with painting.

Creative Expression

Refers to the visual impression that is strong and immediate, like looking at a painting.

Visual Impact

Highlights the intense or saturated quality of colors that make a scene look painted.

Painterly