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Trompe l’oeil
Trompe-l’œil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from (French for “trick the eye”, from tromper - to deceive and l’œil - the eye; IPA pronunciation).
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Tortilla art
Tortilla art refers to fine art that uses tortillas as a canvas. The tortilla(s) are baked, often coated with acrylic and painted. The purpose of tortilla art is to reflect the Chicano cultural roots of the artist.
According to tortilla artist Joe Bravo, “I use the Tortilla as a Canvas because it is an integral […]
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Texture gradient
Texture gradient is the size distortion closer objects have compared to objects further away. It also involves objects appearing denser together as they go further away. There are three main forms of texture gradient: density, perspective and compression of texture elements.
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Tenebrism
Tenebrism, from the Italian tenebroso (”murky”), (also called dramatic illumination) is a style of painting using violent contrasts of light and dark. A heightened form of chiaroscuro, it creates the look of figures emerging from the dark. The term is less used by Art historians in recent decades, and lacks a clear definition; it […]
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Surautomatism
Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking, or purporting to take, automatism to its most absurd limits.
In their 1945 statement Dialectique de la Dialectique, Romanian surrealists Gherashim Luca and Dolfi Trost wrote,
We have returned to the problem of knowledge through images… by establishing a […]
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Surrealist techniques
Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature utilizes numerous unique techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism.
The Surrealist movement has been a […]
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Surrealist automatism
Automatism is a surrealist technique involving spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship. Automatism in Surrealism has taken on many forms, from the automatic writing and drawing initially practiced by surrealists, to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz [1].
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Superimposition
Superimposition is a graphics term meaning the placement of an image on top of an already-existing image, usually to add to the overall image effect, but also sometimes to conceal something (such as when a different face is superimposed over the original face in a photograph)
This technique is used to produce photomaps by superimposing […]
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Stippling
Stippling is the technique of using small dots to simulate varying degrees of solidity or shading.
In a drawing or painting, the dots are made of pigment of a single color, applied with a pen or brush; the denser the spacing of the dots, the darker the apparent shade — or lighter, if the pigment […]
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Stencil
A stencil is a template used to draw or paint identical letters, symbols, shapes, or patterns every time it is used.
Stencils are formed by removing sections from template material in the form of text or an image. This creates what is essentially a physical negative. The template can then be used to create impressions […]
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