She classified her work, with its rhythmical syntheses of coloured planes, as "Painterly Architectonics".
In the two decades that have followed, only two painters have won the Turner Prize and neither of those – Chris Ofili and Tomma Abts – can be counted as painterly in the sense that Scully is painterly.
It is an object, with a waxy solidity as much sculptural as painterly.
Christine Finn, travel writer Rouen cathedral appears as painterly fragments in works by Claude Monet.
Mr. Oliveira's movies are often described as painterly or theatrical.
Sure enough, two other Fragonards that came up immediately before and after fell unwanted, even though both are vastly superior as painterly achievement goes.
He speaks of his films — "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" from 1989 is the best known — as painterly.
Thanks to this new technique, however, he succeeded in developing a method of working that appears partly sketchlike, yet which could also be described as painterly.
The show opens with peacock feathers, which become a pervasive symbol as painterly backgrounds, feather fans and digital projections on the museum walls.
As painterly proof, there's Gustave Courbet's amazing canvas from1862 in the Petit Palais in Paris.
