His leaded works, called "Compositions," together with later mixed media pieces and mosaics, have been described as symbolic, subjective narratives, rendered in a "painterly tradition."

Giotto, possibly influenced by Pietro Cavallini and other Roman painters, did not base the figures that he painted upon any painterly tradition, but upon the observation of life.

What unites them all is a kind of intimacy or immediacy of touch that speaks of an older painterly tradition.

You could say he chose the 'painterly' Venetian tradition of colore over classical disegno.

Mr. Caro's attention to the placement of flattened outlines within the sheet's borders is very much in the painterly tradition of Matisse.

Moving back and forth between these two extremes, Mr. Rand's paintings celebrate a musical tradition as elaborate as the painterly tradition he wants to be a part of.

Likely trained in Rome and became a follower of Scipione Pulzone and was influenced by the painterly traditions of Federigo Barocci.

These "lyrical abstractionists" sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting, and to revive and reinvigorate a painterly "tradition" in American art.

With these works, he breaks from a number of painterly traditions.

Otero's work is characterized by an interest in personal history, expressionistic abstraction, and Spanish Baroque painterly traditions.