Another important difference in the setting: the painterly quality is a result of a decidedly 21st-century effect - digital manipulation.

Lighting was integral to filming and helped evoke the painterly quality of the landscapes in the film.

"The painterly quality is powerful, and it comes with a good price," Ms. Upright said.

He doesn't have a painterly quality or the things that are often attributed to great directors of photography.

Her work has the impressionistic, painterly quality of a bygone era, but it's refreshing.

Made late in the artist's career (1560-70), it has the kind of deftly worked painterly qualities that modern artists would later appreciate.

He is best known for his intensely manipulated prints that display a distinct painterly quality.

Randlett takes black and white photographs of northwest landscapes that often have wonderfully painterly qualities.

"They have a painterly quality, irregularities, and a given cycle never repeats itself in the Chinese wallpaper," he explains.

We will learn about the painterly and graphic qualities of calligraphy.