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postpainterly

postpainterly adjective: moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.

Adjective

postpainterly (not comparable)

  1. Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
    • Here the airless, awkwardly shaped gallery is redeemed by several curiosities of postpainterly abstraction, among them Richard Kalina’s “Luquillo” (1970), a painting-sculpture hybrid made from polyester striped with acrylic and then folded, and Nicholas Krushenick’s neon-bright geometric...2008 April 25, Karen Rosenberg, “Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge”, in New York Times

Origin of postpainterly

From post- + painterly.

Questions about postpainterly

What does postpainterly mean?
Postpainterly means moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
What part of speech is postpainterly?
Postpainterly is an adjective.

Words near postpainterly in the dictionary

  1. postoxygenator
  2. postpachytene
  3. postpagan
  4. postpageant
  5. postpaid
  6. postpainterly
  7. postpalatal
  8. postpalatine
  9. postpaleolithic
  10. postpaludal
  11. postpancreatectomy

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