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The handwriting of painting — proof a human, not a printer, was here.
means The visible manner and technique of how an artist applies paint, from invisible smoothness to bold loaded strokes.
from A plain English compound — brush plus work — that art critics adopted in the 1800s to praise the gesture, not just the picture.
Signature traitExperts identify forgeries by stroke rhythm alone.
ImpastoPaint so thick it casts its own shadows.
Hidden handVermeer left almost none, baffling imitators.