sketchlike

Young French painters, living at the Académie de France in Rome, adopted it to frame sketchlike prospects of the sunlit Italian campagna , as seen in Léon Cogniet's "The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome" 1817.

At the Threshold Between Art and Nature Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Escape from Guantanamo begins about an hour chronologically after the last movie ended, and, after a quick encarceration in Gitmo and a quick breakout, our heroes spend the rest of the movie on the lam (chased by insane G-man Rob Corddry, channeling his inner Jon Voight), finding themselves in brief sketchlike comedic situations.

Alex Remington: Harold & Kumar 2: Best War on Terror Movie Ever (Though That's Not Saying Much) 2008

The two quickly become one during short, sketchlike scenes, some without synchronized sound, that are meant to suggest a deepening of feeling.

NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2011

But combined with lively, sketchlike watercolor illustrations, the book's simplicity speaks volumes about the wonders of farm life to suburban and city-dwelling listeners.

NYT > Home Page By PAMELA PAUL 2011

The others are cartoons, plot devices for McDonagh's slender tale, which never quite moves beyond its sketchlike qualities.

Victorville Daily Press : Associated Press 2010

There's a sketchlike quality of impermanence that might be any of a thousand anonymous spaces downtown, filling according to invisible rhythms, empty one minute, crowded the next.

The New York Observer - 2010

Some are sketchlike and briefly notated, others more developed (like those in the Southern California section).

lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts Charley Parker 2010

Some are sketchlike and briefly notated, others more developed (like those in the Southern California section).

lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts 2010

Tuymans's crossfire confronted me with a visceral force when, at the show, I encountered for the first time a small, sketchlike painting from 1986 of what seemed to be a good-sized and fairly empty interior space.

The New York Review of Books 2010