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  2. Surrealist automatism - Wikipedia

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    Ink on paper, 9 1⁄4 × 8 1⁄8 " (23.5 × 20.6 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York. Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. This drawing technique was popularized in the early 1920s, by Andre Masson and Hans Arp.

  3. Pointillism - Wikipedia

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    Pointillism. Pointillism ( / ˈpwæ̃tɪlɪzəm /, also US: / ˈpwɑːn - ˌ ˈpɔɪn -/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

  4. Surrealist techniques - Wikipedia

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    Aerography was innovative media used by Man Ray in a series of paintings over the period from 1917 to 1919. "Seguidilla" (1919) is one of these pictures. Both conceptually and technically the airbrush painting method presented a new point of departure from a traditional way of painting.

  5. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with ...

  6. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    A. Aerial perspective by Frans Koppelaar, Landscape near Bologna, 2001; distant objects are lighter, of lower contrast, and bluer than nearer objects. Airbrushing technique. Aerial perspective technique. Acrylic painting techniques. Aging (artwork) technique. Aquatint. Assemblage (art) technique. Animation (digital art)

  7. Six principles of Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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    The six elements that define a painting are: "Spirit Resonance" ( qiyun 气韵) or vitality ( shengdong 生动), and seems to translate to the nervous energy transmitted from the artist into the work. The overall energy of a work of art. Xie He said that without Spirit Resonance, there was no need to look further. "Bone Method" ( gufa 骨法 ...

  8. Encaustic painting - Wikipedia

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    One covered a method for treating beeswax so that its melting point was raised from 60 to 100 °C (140 to 212 °F). This occurred after boiling the wax in a solution of sea water and soda three successive times. The resulting harder wax is the same as the Punic wax referred to in ancient Greek writings on encaustic painting.

  9. Intaglio (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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    Intaglio ( / ɪnˈtælioʊ, - ˈtɑː -/ in-TAL-ee-oh, -⁠TAH-; [ 1] Italian: [inˈtaʎʎo]) is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. [ 2] It is the direct opposite of a relief print where the parts of the matrix that make the image ...