Plural of daubery; instances of crude painting, smearing, or the work of daubers; often used dismissively to describe unskilled art.
From 'daub' plus the suffix '-ery' (an art, practice, or characteristic), creating 'daubery', then pluralized with '-ies' to indicate multiple instances or pieces.
Renaissance art critics used 'daubery' as an insult for any painting they considered crude or unskilled—it was a snobbish term that literally meant 'mere smearing' rather than true artistic technique.
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