Postpainterly

Quick meaning: Postpainterly is an adjective meaning Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.

Meaning

Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.

Example Sentences

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 silkscreens from the late ’60s.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include postdramatic, postsymbolic, depainted, preraphaelite, formalesque, pictorialist.

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