mother of pearl
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mother of pearl is the hard, pearly, iridescent internal layer of various kinds of mollusk shell, extensively used for making small articles and inlays.
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Getty Vocabulary, AAT (shell and shell material): AAT: 300011835)
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Pietre Dure (process)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pietre Dure is a process of creating works in which pieces of hard, polished stone of varying shapes are set into marble or another hard surface to form a pattern.
Boulle
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Marquetry comprised of brass and tortoise shell, applied to furniture especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Marquetry
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Marquetry refers to the technique in which small pieces of specially shaped wood, or sometimes other materials such as ivory, are incorporated into a suface of decorative veneer.
Acrylic Paint—History and Technique
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Acrylic paint was developed to meet the needs of the Mexican painters of the 1920s who were creating outdoor murals. Both oil and fresco painting lacked the durability to withstand outdoor conditions.
Collage
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Collage is a technique closely related to papiers collés, a French term meaning "glued papers." This technique was employed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early part of the 20th century.
Acrylic paint
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Acrylic paint is made of a raw plastic material dissolved in a chemical like toluene or xylol and colored with dry pigments.
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Source- Anne Bromberg, "Painting: Materials and Techniques," DMA research document, Education files, 1986-1987.
Pastels—History and Technique
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pastels are artificial chalk made of ground white chalk and powdered pigments. They are usually compressed into stick form. Although naturally colored chalks have been used since prehistoric times, pastels were not used until the 15th and 16th centuries when they were employed to color portrait drawings. In the 18th century, pastel portraits became very popular, since their refined, delicate effects were the embodiment of the Rococo style.
Watercolor—History and Technique
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Watercolors were used by the Egyptians and later in Medieval manuscript illuminations. Although a few artists, such as Albrecht Dürer, made use of the watercolor medium in earlier centuries, only in the 18th century was watercolor adopted by English landscape painters as an independent art form.
Pointillism (technique)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pointillism refers to marks applied as distinct points with no transitional tones. This technique can be used in multiple mediums and typifies the paintings of impressionists and neo-impressionists who chose to apply paint as separate dots of color.