postpainterly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ painterly

Adjective[edit]

postpainterly (not comparable)

  1. Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
    • 2008 April 25, Karen Rosenberg, “Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.