The technique and visible marks created by an artist's use of a brush, especially in painting.
Compound of 'brush' + 'work' (Old English), term widely used in art criticism since the 1700s.
You can identify a painter by their brushwork the way you'd recognize handwriting—Van Gogh's visible, energetic brushstrokes are totally different from Rembrandt's smoother blending, and it reveals how they thought and felt.
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