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Meaning of postpainterly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

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

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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