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Rag painting or ragging is a glazing technique using twisted or bunched up rags to create a textural pattern. Sponging is a free-form finish achieved by applying glaze to the wall by dabbing a sea sponge, in various shapes to achieve either simple design (resembling the wall papers) and more sophisticated ones.
Wallpaper as Art Wallpaper can be just as artful as a painting itself. This one by Iksel Decorative Arts envelopes this living room full of Mediterranean charm in European seaside glamour.
The word fresco is commonly and inaccurately used in English to refer to any wall painting regardless of the plaster technology or binding medium. This, in part, contributes to a misconception that the most geographically and temporally common wall painting technology was the painting into wet lime plaster.
Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface (see wallpaper, Frescography) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.
Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art. [1] [2] [3] ... Wall paintings, (mural) Varanasi, India, 1974. Metalcut ...
The main historical techniques are hand-painting, woodblock printing (overall the most common), stencilling, and various types of machine printing. The first three all date back to before 1700. [1] Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity in Renaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry.