Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plies the brush; a painter.
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Examples
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Do we really want to battle crowds in order to discover, once again, that Rembrandt's a half-decent brushman or that Renoir could handle color?
Blake Gopnik: Fall gallery season full of under-the-radar gems
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The prospect of painting sixty cavalry figures was rather daunting, even for a speedy brushman like Der Alte Fritz.
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The prospect of painting sixty cavalry figures was rather daunting, even for a speedy brushman like Der Alte Fritz.
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It was perhaps merely a contemptuous cleverness which had given him the name among his craft of being a "master brushman."
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He was the best brushman and colorist of the Florentine school.
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Fragonard (1732-1806) followed in a similar style, but was a more knowing man, clever in color, and a much freer and better brushman.
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Technically he was not strong as a draughtsman or a brushman, but he had a large feeling for form, great simplicity in line, keen perception of the relations of light and dark, and at times an excellent color-sense.
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As a brushman he was a superior man, but not equal to Titian.
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Henner (1829 -), fond of form and yet a brushman with an idyllic feeling for light and color in dark surroundings, are painters who may come under the semi-classic grouping.
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Degas stands quite by himself, strong in effects of motion, especially with race-horses, fine in color, and a delightful brushman in such subjects as ballet-girls and scenes from the theatre.
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