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fundamental painting

fundamental painting noun: an approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.

Noun

fundamental painting (uncountable)

  1. An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.
    • De Keyser's work from this period can be unequivocally linked to the so-called Fundamental Painting that was prominent in the art world at the time.2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19
    • Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1

Questions about fundamental painting

What does fundamental painting mean?
Fundamental painting means an approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.
What part of speech is fundamental painting?
Fundamental painting is a noun.

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