Painterly in A Sentence

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    His surfaces might be worked to display an almost painterly plane that suggests refracted light, with a remarkable range of color.

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    I like the contradiction between the craft of working with metal, and the very painterly image which I aim to achieve on paper.

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    Like club music, the work repeats, loops and returns over a rhythm of slapstick laced with formal, painterly considerations.

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    The painterly adaptations of her sources impede our ability to read the image as transparent; their surfaces are literally rendered opaque.