Welles had a perfect intuitive sense of how to place the camera in order to obtain painterly compositions on screen.

Whatever their ultimate merit, seeing "Draughtsman" and "Zed" on DVD in their original widescreen versions gives viewers the chance to appreciate Mr. Greenaway's painterly compositions.

What had been nouvelle cuisine with small portions of light, subtle creations arranged in "painterly" compositions has become a more bistro-like menu of heftier portions.

To be sure, she uses vessel shapes, but she makes them part of painterly compositions in which perceptual tricks occur, among them a lively give-and-take between 2- and 3-D.

Noted for its precise, painterly compositions, meticulous editing and bold approach to sound design, Hopkins' debut is a lyrical and honest look at intersecting lives, loves and losses in rural England.

The simplicity and directness of The Snowy Day gave way to more complex and painterly compositions, such as the expressionistic illustrations in Apt.

While containing some specific information, the sketch indicates more a painterly composition than a design document.

In addition to being a rare, three-quarter length portrait of Dora Maar, the present work is also a generous and painterly composition with an extraordinary attention to detail.

His work crosses the lines between photography and painting and displays knowledge of painterly composition and color theory, coupled with content of modern science, psychology, primal cultures, and the environment.

Frank Lloyd Wright's produced glass windows considered by some as masterpieces not only of design, but of painterly composition as well.