postpainterly en · ADJ
Etymology
From post- + painterly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
Here the airless, awkwardly shaped gallery is redeemed by several curiosities of postpainterly abstraction, among them Richard Kalina’s “Luquillo” (1970), a painting-sculpture hybrid made from polyester striped with acrylic and then folded, and Nicholas Krushenick’s neon-bright geometric silkscreens from the late ’60s.
2008 April 25, Karen Rosenberg, “Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge”, in New York Times: