Painterliness

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Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, about 1633, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Eugenie Baizerman, Mother and Child, c. 1949

Painterliness is a concept based on

art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art
.

A painting is said to be painterly when there are visible

Abstract Expressionists
tended strongly to be painterly.

Painterly art often makes use of the many visual effects produced by paint on canvas, such as chromatic progression, warm and cool tones, complementary and contrasting colors, broken tones, broad brushstrokes, sketchiness, and impasto.

Linear art

The opposite of painterly is linear, plastic or formal linear design.[1] Linear could describe the painting of artists such as

three-dimensionality
by means of "modeling the form" through skillful drawing, shading, and an academic (rather than impulsive) use of color. Contour and pattern are more the province of linear artists, while dynamism is the most common painterly trait.

Other usage

Although painterly generally refers to a certain use of paint in art, it happens that some forms of sculpture make use of apparently random surface effects which, if not exactly resembling brushstrokes, contain the traits of painterliness.[2] The application of the term outside the realm of painting may help the viewer, or listener, experience more deeply the significance of Auguste Rodin's surfaces or Richard Strauss's flow of chromatic harmonies.

More recently, "painterly" is used to describe computer software, especially mobile apps, designed to create special effects on photographs, mimicking recognizable artistic media such as oils, watercolors, Japanese woodcuts, etc., or based on individual styles like

Monet, and so on. The resulting photographs, once transformed, are also called "painterly".[3]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ For further clarification of the meaning of malerisch read Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation by Gilles Deleuze.
  2. ISBN 9780486141763
    .
  3. ^ "5 Best Painting Apps That Turn Your iPhone Photos into Paintings". 21 May 2019.
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