La touche des peintres

En peinture, la touche est caractéristique d'un style, d'un artiste ou d'une de ses "périodes". Elle révèle l'âme du peintre.
In the visual arts, style is a "distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories" or "any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made". It refers to the visual appearance of a work of art that relates it to other works by the same artist or one from the same period, training, location, "school", art movement or archaeological culture: "The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of arts".

Sources :

Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Jean Mineraud – Les dessous du visible