Wednesday, October 12, 2011

DEFINITIONS OF ART TERMS -- Part 5

MEDIUM - Any vehicle used to facilitate the union or mixing of colors.
MONOCHROME - Any graphic production executed in one color only.
MODEL - To interpret form by light and shade; also to mold in clay.
MANNERISM - Any marked manner or peculiarity adopted by a painter and constantly repeated in his work.
NUDE - Although the same word as naked, there is a shade of difference in its association with art which makes it preferable to the latter word. "The Nude" in art, refers merely to undraped figures.
OILING-OUT - The application of oil to a painting when dry, for the purpose of restoring its brilliancy of tone, and also to soften the surface so as to receive fresh color.
PASTICIIE - (Fr.) A term denoting an imitation or plagiarism of another's stele.
PIGMENT - The actual substance of which color is composed. The paint itself.
PORTE-CRAYON - Crayon-holder.
PRIMARY Col.oRs - Red, yellow and blue. These colors are those from which other colors may be made, but which no combination of other colors can produce. The colors directly produced from mixing these primary colors are called secondary colors.

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