As I followed him, silently cursing, the barest brushstroke of a path materialised, a muddy, leaf-strewn depression.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

How could someone so great, able to summon the world with a brushstroke, be so inconsistent in style, and, on occasion, so awful?

NEWYORKER: Venetian Brass

In a Japanese episode, the characters enter a gorgeous brushstroke-style painting.

NEWYORKER: It��s Good Enough For Me

The motif of the "brushstroke, " painted and three-dimensional, as a goof on Willem de Kooning in 1960s and on graffiti by the 1990s, serves to unify the exhibition.

WSJ: Roy Lichtenstein | Cartoon Hero | By Richard B. Woodward

Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.

NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle

Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Claesz and Willem Heda, the masters of the masters, could paint with no sign of a brushstroke banquet tables displaying dozens of different surfaces and reflections of food, drink and tableware, vases overflowing with 30 varieties of realistic flowers from all seasons.

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