postpainterly

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adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectivepostpainterly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMoving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
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    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.

    2008 April 25, Karen Rosenberg, “Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge”, in New York Times

Origin

From post- + painterly.

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postpainterly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpainterly

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“postpainterly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpainterly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postpainterly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpainterly.

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