Collins assembles his cast with a painterly eye.

With a painterly eye for revealing detail, he constructs a nonsequential performance montage with layer upon layer of facts, images and inferences.

Before this, the aristocratism of Antonioni's painterly eye and the radicalism of his complex intellect often seemed to be at odds.

Ms. Akalaitis uses her painterly eye to illuminate motifs, but along the way there are a few questionable directorial choices.

Schor has a painterly eye and a keen ear, and in several poems she drops her armor of aestheticism and lets a range of emotions show.

Mr. Zhang's painterly eye for beauty is often balanced by a journalistic sense of realism.

His own films are acknowledged for his painterly eye and his non-linear story-telling style, which focus on the relationship between the artist and their connection to place.

The narrative would revolve around a few set-pieces, described with a painterly eye for detail; crisp, staccato, even elliptical, dialogue, pages of fastidious philosophical rumination.

"It's like that line, 'Sight is a faculty, seeing is a gift,' " said Conni Cross, a garden designer with a painterly eye.

In directing a film, he composed each shot carefully, with a painterly eye to detail, often drawing a scene by hand first.