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Example of hatching (e.g., background) and cross-hatching in many darker areas (visible if viewed at full size). Detail of Veronica Hatching ( French : hachure ) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines .
Skiagraphia is often described as a hatching technique used to create the illusion of forms through shading. [1] The shading is created by the use of curved lines, either by the use of hatching or cross-hatching. Within this same approach, painters can use different colors to add shade to an area.
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right was made on a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 20.3 × 15.6 cm. It seems that several years after its creation, it was amputated by wide strips on all four sides, as evidenced by copies made by followers, such as the one preserved in the Albertina Museum in Vienna (dated between 1508 and 1513 and measuring 22.7 × 26 cm): it thus ...
Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.
The colour and hatching for zibeline is the same as the sable (black) tincture, and the colour and hatching of marten is identical with the gules (red) tincture. So, in some countries these tinctures are also held as furs (mainly in the Czech heraldic traditions, but not in real use, and sometimes also in the German heraldry, which is also not ...
Some art theorists have proposed that the attempt to define art must be abandoned and have instead urged an anti-essentialist theory of art. [9] In 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics' (1956), Morris Weitz famously argues that individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions will never be forthcoming for the concept 'art' because it is an ...
A version of the Zöllner illusion. The Zöllner illusion is an optical illusion named after its discoverer, German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.In 1860, Zöllner sent his discovery in a letter to physicist and scholar Johann Christian Poggendorff, editor of Annalen der Physik und Chemie, who subsequently discovered the related Poggendorff illusion in Zöllner's original drawing.
Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives like, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and ...