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models, 3D art surrealism pictures paintings prints . Genre: French for 'type', 'variety'. small-scale painting which shows scenes from everyday domestic (often peasant) life rather than more exalted themes. for the benefit of middle-class patrons; also the word 'genre' means category or type of painting - for example landscape, marine or portrait - and has become an important word in the critic' s vocabulary . Gesamtkunstwerk: Genoan for 'total work of art'.artwork which seeks to unify many different branches of the arts into a total experience. Where the Baroque era is concerned the word has been applied to the unifying of architecture and sculpture (e.g. Bernini). And in the Romantic era to the unifying of music and visual art. Gesso: Absorbent ground (of chalk or gypsum) used as a base for tempera painting or some kinds of oil painting. Gilding: The application of gold leaf to the surface of a painting or other surface. Glaze: The application of a thin transparent layer of oil paint over a solid dry layer in order to modify the tone and colour and give a luminious effect. Sometimes, varnish which has become discoloured over the ages is confused with a glaze. ne word also. and separately. applies to the process of covering a painting with glass in order to protect it. Golden section: or cut or mean: See section on Proportion; geometrical proportion - going back to Plato and Euclid - often used by artists and architects consciously or unconsciously in the composition of their paintings and buildings. and interpreted as a 'universal law of hannony' in art and nature. ne proportion. basically, results from dividing a line so the shorter part is to the longer part as the longer is to the whole line (a ratio of approx. 5:8). Why this particular ratio should be so attractive. so widespread and so apparently superior to others is a mystery. Gothic art: Originally used to describe northern European architecture from the 12thC to the 16thC (a non-classical architecture). the term was extended. as a term of abuse. to apply to all the arts of that pre-Renaissance period. 'Gothic' was seen as the work of the Goths rather than 'the ancients' and therefore barbaric. An emphasis on verticals. such as pointed arches and rib-vaulting; carved decoration; elongation of form to express religious feeling; and brilliant colour - all were parts of the style. Above all. Gothic art was 'transcendental'. Dedicated to religious observance - and was thus downgraded by Renaissance humanists. Gouache: Watercolour paint mixed with white pigments. making the paint opaque and giving it more weight and body (almost like oil paint in its effect. only duller). Abstract page break: Free desktop wallpapers downloads, cool fantasy surreal magic collection. 3-D dimensional wall-papers screen-savers models, graphics pictures images animation. Pictures modern digital surreal life master, sexy erotic nude nature landscapes, Free 3D wallpapers screensavers models, 3D art surrealism pictures paintings prints. Graffito or sgraffito: Italian for 'scratching'. technique for decorating stuccoed walls, in which a layer of plaster is applied over a different coloured layer, and a design then scratched through the top layer. Popular in 16thC Italy. Ihe plural 'graffiti' applies to the drawing or scratching of words onto the surface of public walls - an illicit activity until the 1970s when. following the invention of the aerosol spray can, , graffiti' moved from public walls and New York subway trains into fashionable galleries. Ihen, when the art public rejected both the graffiti and the spray cans. it went back onto public walls again. Ihe best-known practitioner was New Yorker Keith Haring. Grand manner: The depiction of the human figure in a noble. heroic or explicitly symbolic way, often within an historical scene. Popular in 17thC France. Ground: ne basic primed surface of a painting. suitable for receiving pigment; usually has to be white. smooth and absorbent. Also. the wax or varnish spread over the metal plate before an etching is made. Guilds: See section on The Artist at Work: associations of tradesmen, craftsmen, artists or other professionals, organised for the regulation and control of apprenticeship and good practice. In the pre-Renaissance period. all painters had to belong to one. and be apprenticed to a master (unless they served the ruling prince). In Giotto's time, in F]orence. painters belonged to the Medici e Speziali (the Doctors. and Apothecaries. Guild). Only a master could set up on his own. and to qualify as a master. the apprentice had to submit a masterpiece. During the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo and Michelangelo reacted against the guilds, while defining their new role as that of a gentleman of learning rather than a tradesman or craftsman. Eventually, the guilds were superseded by academies. Gum Arabic: Binder used in watercolours made from the gum of the acacia tree (commonly associated with Arabia). West, in the late 1950s, 1%0s and 1970s. Abstract page closure: Free desktop wallpapers downloads, cool fantasy surreal magic collection. 3-D dimensional wall-papers screen-savers models graphics pictures images animations. Pictures modern digital surreal life master, sexy erotic nude nature landscapes, Free 3D wallpapers screensavers models, 3D art surrealism pictures paintings prints. |
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