When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Picture frame - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_frame

   View of a frame-maker's workshop, oil on canvas, circa 1900 The elaborate decoration on this frame may be made by adhering molded plaster pieces to the wood base.. A picture frame is a container that borders the perimeter of a picture, and is used for the protection, display, and visual appreciation of objects and imagery such as photographs, canvas paintings, drawings and prints, posters ...

3. Reverse glass painting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_glass_painting

   Vassily Kandinsky Vassily Kandinsky, Komposition V, 1911. One of the main challenges of creating a reverse glass painting is how layers are applied when painting. [6] An illustration of this type is usually painted on the opposite side of the glass (the one not presented to the audience), following an opposite succession of layers of paint, applying the front most layer first and the ...

4. Conservation and restoration of painting frames - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and...

   A frame before and after treatment. The conservation and restoration of painting frames is the process through which picture frames are preserved. Frame conservation and restoration includes general cleaning of the frame, as well as in depth processes such as replacing damaged ornamentation, gilding, and toning. The purpose of painting frames ...

5. Robert Kulicke - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kulicke

   Robert Moore Kulicke (1924 – December 14, 2007) was an American artist, frame maker, and teacher.Though most influential for modernizing the design of picture frames, he was also a noted painter of small and delicate still lifes, as well as a jewellery maker credited with reviving the ancient goldsmithing technique of granulation.

6. Picture framing glass - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_framing_glass

   Due to the change in the refractive index, as a light beam travels from air (refractive index of about 1) into glass or acrylic (refractive index of about 1.5) and then back into air, these transitions cause part of the light to be reflected. While "anti-glare" (a.k.a. "non-glare" or matte finish) glass treatments focus on scattering the light ...

7. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(picture_framing)

   The passe-partout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the passe-partout is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The French word may also be used for the tape used to stick the back of the picture to its frame.