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Zoomorphism
Zoomorphism, from Greek zoon, meaning animal, and , morphe, meaning shape or form, refers to the representation of animal forms in ornaments, or to the representation of gods in the form, or with attributes, of non-human animals, and also to the transformation of humans into beasts.
Portraying people as animals in order to dehumanize them […]
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Zincography
Zincography a type of Chromotypograph is a relief printing process that uses zinc plates. It was a precursor of photography, and various Fin de Siécle French newspapers, such as Le Rire, used zincographic processes for their illustrations. The process was attractive to both printers and publishers as a competitive challenge to color lithography which […]
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Zanelle
A Zanelle is an artwork painted by a robot. It differs from other forms of machine made art such as Lithographs and Giclée, in that the artwork is made up of actual brush strokes and artist grade paints. Many Zanelles are indistiguishable from artist created paintings and pass an artistic equivalent of the Turing […]
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Xerox art
Xerox art (sometimes, more generically, called electrostatic art or copy art) is created by putting objects on the glass, or image area, of a copying machine, and by pressing “start,” making an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover the object, the image is distorted in some […]
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Woodblock printing
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and probably originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220, and from Eygpt to […]
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William Ivins, Jr.
William Mills Ivins, Jr. (1881 – 1961) was curator of the department of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from its founding in 1916 until 1946.
The son of William Mills Ivins, Sr. (1851 – 1915), a New York public utility lawyer, Ivins studied at Harvard College and the University of Munich […]
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Viscosity (printmaking)
Viscosity is a planographic printmaking technique. The process is based upon the property that water will not mix with oil; it extends this practice by creating tacky vs. oily ink surfaces. A tacky ink surface is rolled on a flat monotyping surface, it is then drawn into or wiped away. A second layer of […]
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Verism
Verism is the artistic preference of contemporary everyday materials instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; a form of realism. The word comes from Latin verus (true).
In Roman art
Verism was often used by the Romans in marble sculptures of heads. Verism shows the imperfections of the subject, such as warts, wrinkles […]
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Vanishing point
A vanishing point is a point in a perspective drawing to which parallel lines appear to converge. The number and placement of the vanishing points determines which perspective technique is being used.
* linear perspective is drawing with 1-3 vanishing points.
* curvilinear perspective is drawing with 5 […]
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Ubiquitous gaze
Ubiquitous gaze is an art term for the effect created by certain portraits which give the impression that the subject’s eyes are following the viewer. When such a painting is viewed from any angle, the subject’s eyes still appear to be looking straight into the viewer’s. This is an effect of perspective and may […]
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