Also means
style of applying paint with a brush
Usage Note
Pinseltechnik describes the specific way an artist handles the brush — pressure, speed, and stroke direction. Eine lockere Pinseltechnik (loose brushwork) is praised in Impressionist criticism; exakte Pinseltechnik in academic realist painting.
Examples
"Seine Pinseltechnik verriet eine jahrzehntelange Übung."
Natural Translation
His brushwork technique revealed decades of practice.
Literal Translation
His brush-technique betrayed a decades-long practice.
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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