Many of his photographic and painterly works flow into his functional graphic design. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. It is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. His affection for painting can be seen in the painterly style of his haiku. He is best known for his intensely manipulated prints that display a distinct painterly quality. Warmer colors started to dominate while he developed a bolder and more painterly technique. The game has been praised for its beautiful painterly art style. He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art. Thematically, his art was at times concerned with developing a painterly nationalism. In this later period Teniers also adopted a more painterly and looser style. His evolution as an artist was slow, and he was aware of his painterly limitations. Through a synthesis of styles she worked towards what she termed "painterly architectonics". With these works, he breaks from a number of painterly traditions. Hazlitt in the meantime had not forsaken his painterly ambitions.