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| Of a soft and delicate shade or color |
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| is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal |
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| A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink. |
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| The Salon (Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris), beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world. |
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| A photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor |
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| The process or technique of laying on paint or pigment thickly so that it stands out from a surface |
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| Steel frame usually refers to a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame. |
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| A physicist who published a theory of colour contrasts which influenced many art movements including the Impressionists, Post impressionists and Orphic cubism. |
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| Pure primary colors used in small touches in close juxtaposition so that they seem to merge, producing secondary colors. This effect was used in Impressionist art. |
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| law of simultaneous contrast |
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| the tendency of a color to induce its opposite in hue, value and intensity upon an adjacent color and be mutually affected in return |
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| girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
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| any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field |
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| "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors |
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| it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines. |
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