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The definition of facture is how art is made, or the quality of how the art is made.

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An artist's process for making a painting including the canvas used is an example offacture.

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noun

the manner in which something, esp. a painting, is made or executed

Origin: ME < OFr < L factura < facere, to make, do

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noun

The manner in which something, especially a work of art, is made: “the gummy surfaces, spectral smudges and woozy contours that . . . appear in counterpoint to the clear, bright facture that had heretofore been [the artist's] hallmark” (Robert Shorr).

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Origin: French

Origin: , from Latin factūra, a working or making; see feature

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