Meaning of detailist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.
2. An artist who produces highly detailed work.

Examples

“In cost⟳ department work⟳ ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work⟳ of making entries.”

“Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.”

“He is the scientist, not as particularizer and detailist, but as the forceful synthesizer of a truly vast amount of apparently unrelated objects, events, and structures.”

“The whole thing must have⟳ been rehearsed many times, for the detailist would overlook no detail.”

“The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw⟳ every flower that he saw⟳ : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get⟳ the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.”

“The detailist fills his canvas with work⟳ and interest⟳; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.”

“His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light⟳.”

“Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type⟳ has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look⟳ like⟳ a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle⟳ and every crack in the blade became apparent.”

“But when we come⟳ to examine⟳ the fundamental reasons for nature's supremacy over all art, even the noblest, we find⟳ it in the fact that nature is the transcendent detailist.”

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