Graining is the practice of imitating wood grain on a non-wood surface in order to increase that surface's aesthetic appeal.

Graining can also be applied on bricks and brass, as is more common today.

Graining was common in the 19th century, as people were keen on imitating hard, expensive woods by applying a superficial layer of paint onto soft, inexpensive woods.

Graining can be accomplished using either rudimentary tools or highly specialized graining tools.

Graining can also mean the production of any artificial texture on any surface.

# TNT Graining House Sump-These areas consists of a concrete-lined, open top pit believed to be the sump pit for the Trinitrotoluene ( TNT ) graining house in the former shell loading area.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

With classical art, all is settled.

There is the unexplainable, and there art raises questions that it does not attempt to answer ''.

Apart from the categorical imperative they derive from the metaphysics of the orgasm, the only affirmation they are capable of making is that art is their only refuge.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.

That this abandonment takes place on a stage, during an ' artistic ' performance, is enough to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon him the punishment for art ; ;

The `` reality '' to which they respond is rationally empty and their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world.

The presence of genuine mimesis in art is marked by the persistence with which the work demands attention and compels valuation even though it is but vaguely understood.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

Medieval Greek is a cover phrase for a whole continuum of different speech and writing styles, ranging from vernacular continuations of spoken Koine that were already approaching Modern Greek in many respects, to highly learned forms imitating classical Attic.

As one modern scholar observed: " It is as if an artisan with his big, awkward fingers were patiently, fascinatedly, imitating the fine seam of the professional tailor.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

: One way in which group members can develop social skills is through a modeling process, observing and imitating the therapist and other group members.

The lyrebird is capable of imitating almost any sound and they have been recorded mimicking human caused sounds such as a mill whistle to a cross-cut saw, chainsaws, car engines and car alarms, fire alarms, rifle-shots, camera shutters, dogs barking, crying babies, music, and even the human voice.

French hip hop, however, is often criticized for imitating American hip hop style.

) Later, Puck is ordered by Oberon to fix the mistake he ( Puck ) made, by producing a dark fog, leading the lovers astray within it by imitating their voices, and then applying the flower to Lysander's eyes, which will cause him to fall back in love with Hermia.

Moreover Bacchylides's line " So now for me too countless paths extend in all directions " has a close resemblance to lines in one of Pindar's Isthmian Odes ( 1. 1 – 2 ), " A thousand ways ... open on every side widespread before me " but, as the date of Pindar's Isthmian Ode is uncertain, it is not clear in this case who was imitating whom.

For example the use of inverted plastered timber columns at Knossos is thought to have influenced early peoples of Minorca in imitating this practice.

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive.

Out of the many characters for which Azaria provides the voice, Frink is his favorite to do because he was a fan of Lewis in his younger years and he enjoys imitating the voice of the nutty professor.

Under the influence of this work ( and the ideas of Georg Gottfried Gervinus, according to whom " the highest natural object of musical imitation is emotion, and the method of imitating emotion is to mimic speech "), Mussorgsky in 1868 rapidly set the first eleven scenes of Nikolai Gogol's The Marriage ( Zhenitba ), with his priority being to render into music the natural accents and patterns of the play's naturalistic and deliberately humdrum dialogue.

It begins with the hands chasing one another, as it were: the melodic line, initiated in the left hand with a sharp striking of the G above middle C, and then sliding down from the B one octave above to the F, is offset by the right hand, imitating the left at the same pitch, but a quaver late, for the first three bars, ending with a small flourish in the fourth:

This pattern is repeated during bars 5-8, only with the left hand imitating the right one, and the scales are ascending, not descending.

Before he goes to sleep, Elliott realizes the alien is imitating his movements.

And even though some parrots ( which are not songbirds ) can be taught to repeat human speech, vocal mimicry among birds is almost completely restricted to songbirds, some of which ( such as the lyrebirds or the aptly-named mockingbirds ) excel in imitating the sounds of other birds or even environmental noises.

This group of kids is not considered gang members by law enforcement, but they know gang members and may associate with them on a casual or limited basis, mostly watching and imitating the older gang members.

This is no longer the norm, rather they are typically made of wood, with the bowled back merely imitating the shape of the armadillo shell.

* Costume headgear imitating a monarch's crown is also called a crown.

*" On the fritz ", phrase meaning an appliance is broken or malfunctioning ( imitating the sound of electric spark )

* Puirt a beul, also known as " Mouth Music ", is a Scottish technique based around imitating the sounds of bagpipes, fiddles, and other instruments used in traditional Scottish music.

The same root occurs in a number of other Slavic toponyms ; it is probably onomatopeic, imitating the sound of running water-murmur ( Šepot ).

Furthermore, traditional man's behavior gains purpose and meaning through the Sacred: " By imitating divine behavior, man puts and keeps himself close to the gods — that is, in the real and the significant.