facture

noun

fac·ture ˈfak-chər

: the manner in which something (such as a painting) is made

Examples of facture in a Sentence

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Often created through a long, laborious procedure from organic materials such as hemp, copper, wood, and even entire trees, her careful, cogent works possess a grounding evidence of their facture that sets them apart from the typically sleek, industrial-looking work of her Minimalist peers. —

News Desk, Artforum, 5 Sep. 2024 The impression of freshness and immediacy is reinforced by the paint’s facture. —

Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021 In art, the inefficiencies of hand facture were understood as essential markers of meaning. —

Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021 These sensuous aspects — the painting’s facture, the colors’ intensity — are as important, in their way, as Mondrian’s organization of form and space. —

Washington Post, 12 May 2021 Her face, while more contoured than Eva’s, still quivers with facture, the tenderness of coming-to-be embodied in Kiely’s additions, erasures, and smudges. —

Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, "manner of making, shape," borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin factūra "working (of metal), make, fashion," from factus (past participle of facere "to make, do") + -ūra -ure — more at fact

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of facture was in the 15th century

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