brushwork
noun
brush·work
ˈbrəsh-ˌwərk 
: work done with a brush (as in painting)
especially
: the characteristic work of an artist using a brush
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Velázquez’s vigorous brushwork is itself a demonstrable performance, designed to seduce and entertain the viewer.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Interior of a Restaurant appeared in the 1950s, but specialists determined that the brushwork didn’t resemble the original style and that the colors were not a match with the artist’s palette from this time, which includes a Manganese blue synthetic pigment patented in 1935.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Her brushwork palpably wants to get away from theory and into making, into experience, into building something.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Interior of a Restaurant appeared in the 1950s, but specialists determined that the brushwork didn’t resemble the original style and that the colors were not a match with the artist’s palette from this time, which includes a Manganese blue synthetic pigment patented in 1935.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Her brushwork palpably wants to get away from theory and into making, into experience, into building something.
—Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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“Brushwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brushwork. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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