‖ matière
(matjɛr)
[Fr.]
The quality given to his pigment by an artist. Also fig.
| 1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting xiv. 320 De Vlaminck has a rich and compelling matière and an art sense which is almost coquettish. 1921 R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 62 In the Nature Morte..he [sc. Picasso] has gained a certain plastic quality by the extraordinary contrasts of matière. 1936 Burlington Mag. July 35/1 Though the matière is still heavy, the paint is applied in parallel oblique strokes. 1960 Times 12 May 10/5 Dubuffet has experimented with the potentialities of matière in his paintings. 1963 Guardian 29 Feb. 9/2 Kossoff struggles with his grotesquely sensual matiere like a Vietnamese trooper slurping in the mud of a rice paddy. 1971 Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 19 Lecture Four. The matiere of verse demonstrated further in Wallace Stevens; who isn't my poet. |