lapidarian

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Johnson the Younger has an unfamiliar genius for color, the lapidarian technique of a jeweler and a devotion to evocative abstraction.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

Mr. Fratino’s main influence seems to be Dana Schutz, whose style he has compressed and miniaturized, distinguishing it with an extensive vocabulary of enlivening, lapidarian brushwork.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2016

Proyectos Ultravioleta from Guatemala City has painted its walls burned yellow and devoted them to the bright lapidarian collages of Elisabeth Wild, an artist born in Vienna in 1922.

From New York Times • May 14, 2015

Miss Gordimer's detachment competes with her lapidarian skill.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Few English writers have so lapidarian a style of writing as Mrs. Craigie, and few such a capacity for writing epigrams.”

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by Winter, John Strange