"painterly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982 August 28, Andrea Loewenstein, “Becker's Experience Talks Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 11:",
          "text": "She always shows and never tells. For some poets, such a concentration on the concrete may imply a loosening of language and of perception, or an immersion into raw emotion. Instead, Becker clothes the everyday in a spare, painterly clarity of perception.",
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        "(of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes."
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        "of a painting"
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