Usage Note
Pinselstrich combines Pinsel (brush) and Strich (stroke). Critics praise an artist's lockerer Pinselstrich (loose brushwork); figuratively mit wenigen Pinselstrichen means sketching something briefly.
Examples
"Jeder Pinselstrich wirkte spontan und sicher."
Natural Translation
Every brushstroke seemed spontaneous and confident.
Literal Translation
Every brush-stroke seemed spontaneous and confident.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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