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• a  not paintable especially not suitable for artistic representation on canvas
  the inexpressible, unpaintable `tick' in the unconscious

• But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable.

• paintable

Quotes

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• Theodore Robinson in The Australian
  I have nearly got rid ofthe desire to do 'American' things -- mostly because American life is so unpaintable -- and ahigher kind of art seems to me to exclude thequestion of nationality,wrote Theodore Robinson, who was studying at the Ecole...