Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to color or coloring.
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- adjective art, music Of, pertaining to, or focused on
coloring or an enhanced use ofcolour
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surrounding these new works were solid interpretations of Liszt, Debussy and Granados ripe with coloristic variety and prodigious technical execution.
Donna Fish: Artists to Watch Donna Fish 2011
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Surrounding these new works were solid interpretations of Liszt, Debussy and Granados ripe with coloristic variety and prodigious technical execution.
Donna Fish: Artists to Watch Donna Fish 2011
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He also knocked off the considerable technical challenges in the Britten work, as well as in the vividly coloristic Five Pieces on Folk Themes by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze.
Amit Peled strikes a romantic mood Joe Banno 2011
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The wine-red field appears to bring intense coloristic pressure to bear on the central motif; and this pressure seems both to account for its ellipsoid shape as well as for its suspension at the heart of the field.
Archive 2010-01-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010
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The result is a perilous, constantly changing equilibrium that is at once coloristic and structural.
Archive 2010-01-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010
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The result is a perilous, constantly changing equilibrium that is at once coloristic and structural.
Michael Fried on Kenneth Noland EAGEAGEAG 2010
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The wine-red field appears to bring intense coloristic pressure to bear on the central motif; and this pressure seems both to account for its ellipsoid shape as well as for its suspension at the heart of the field.
Michael Fried on Kenneth Noland EAGEAGEAG 2010
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Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance.
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Only a rare reviewer aptly noted that Tina Blau had still not been fully appreciated: “She is the first among us who saw and made light and air modern at a time when even our most famous and well-known landscape painters stuck to certain traditional coloristic formulas” (Seligmann 1909).
Tina Blau. 2009
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Thus the biggest surprise of "Picasso: Mosqueteros" is its evidence of a coloristic metamorphosis that overtook the monochromatically inclined master in his supposed dotage.
The Late Show Filler, Martin 2009
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