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  • noun Plural form of brushmark.

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Examples

  • He would stand inches away from the painting's surface investigating the small forms or small brushmarks and discuss how they enlivened the surface.

    John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011

  • He would stand inches away from the painting's surface investigating the small forms or small brushmarks and discuss how they enlivened the surface.

    John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011

  • Look at the brilliant array of brushmarks in Van Gogh's Garden With Path, each graphic variation applied to a different species shimmering in the Provençal sun.

    Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists 2010

  • It had brushmarks and everything, but the original is in a museum; it was very convincing!

    Easter at Eunice's! tragic_elegance 2007

  • Courbet came vividly alive, his forceful, assured personality embodied by his paintings 'refusal to be ingratiating; their audacity; and their varied, assertive, almost modern paint-handling -- delicate brushmarks, ferocious palette-knife work, suave transitions, abrupt slashes.

    Mesmerizing Museums 2008

  • A poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks.

    The Prevention of Literature 1946

  • "First Families of Virginia"; others were in a line of motors and heterogeneous horse-drawn vehicles, parked beside the course; and scattered through the gathering, like brushmarks on an impressionist canvas, one saw the brilliant color of pink coats.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • A poem is an arrangement of sounds and associations, as a painting is an arrangement of brushmarks.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Bed, a counterpane spattered with brushmarks playfully redolent of Pollock and co, gave the art world soiled sheets half a century before Tracey Emin.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • It is an odd amalgam of sculpture and painting - the wooden blocks like three-dimensional brushmarks, the ribbon and tape like splashes of colour.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

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