Technique Name: Aquatint
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Brief Description: An intaglio, etching, and tonal printing process in which a porous ground allows acid to penetrate to form a network of small dots in the plate, as well as the prints made by this process. Aquatints often resemble wash drawings. Any pure whites are stopped out entirely before etching begins, then the palest tints are bitten and stopped out, and so on as in etching. This process is repeated 20 to 30 times until the darkest tones (de
Technique Name: Color Field Painting
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Barbizon School
Brief Description: A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s.
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Technique Name: Drawing - Contour
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Brief Description: Contour drawing is an extremely carefully observed outline drawing. In many ways it is the opposite of a gesture drawing. A gesture drawing is drawn quickly, but a contour drawing is very, very slowly.
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Technique Name: Drawing - Value
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Brief Description: When artists talk about value, sometimes they are referring to the monetary worth of an artwork, but often they are talking about the degree of light or dark that they see. For example, something light and bright is high value, and something dark is low value. Artists also use the word tone the same way.
Technique Name: Etching
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Brief Description: An intaglio printing process in which an etching needle is used to draw into a wax ground applied over a metal plate. The plate is then submerged in a series of acid baths, each biting into the metal surface only where unprotected by the ground. The ground is removed, ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed. Also, both the design etched on a plate and an impression made from an etched plate. Too often confused with engraving.
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Technique Name: Fresco
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Classicism
Neo-Classicism
Brief Description: In painting, the term fresco (pl. frescoes) comes from the Italian phrase buon fresco, ("really fresh") a technical term in opposition to in secco ("on dry surface").
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