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The term originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window.

Each of these art forms, and the criticism thereof, is primarily concerned with a sole creative force: the author of a novel ( not, for example, his editor or type-setter ), the composer of a piece of music ( though sometimes the performers are given credence, akin to actors in film today ), or the painter of a fresco ( not his assistants who mix the colours or often do some of the painting themselves ).

Fresco may thus be contrasted with secco mural painting techniques, on plasters of lime, earth, or gypsum, or applied to supplement painting in fresco.

The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh ( hence the name ) lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used.

In painting buon fresco, a rough underlayer called the arriccio is added to the whole area to be painted and allowed to dry for some days.

The two types of fresco painting are buon fresco and fresco secco.

Buon fresco is painting into wet plaster, which makes a painting last a long time.

One of the rare examples of Islamic fresco painting can be seen in Qasr Amra, the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez.

José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera the famous Mexican artists renewed the art of fresco painting in the 20th century.

The term is generally not used in art history in speaking of medieval painting, although the Western tradition was developing in large altarpieces, fresco cycles, and other works, as well as miniatures in illuminated manuscripts.

A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco (" fresh "), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings.

The buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster.

Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

No contemporary documents record the patron of the fresco, but recently references to ownership of a tomb at the foot of the fresco have been found in the records of the Berti family of the Santa Maria Novella Quarter of Florence ; this working-class family expressed a long-standing devotion to the Trinity, and may well have commissioned Masaccio's painting.

The fresco, considered by many to be Masaccio's masterwork, is the earliest surviving painting to use systematic linear perspective, possibly devised by Masaccio with the assistance of Brunelleschi himself.

Modern works of art depicting Yggdrasil include Die Nornen ( painting, 1888 ) by K. Ehrenberg ; Yggdrasil ( fresco, 1933 ) by Axel Revold, located in the University of Oslo library auditorium in Oslo, Norway ; Hjortene beiter i løvet på Yggdrasil asken ( wood relief carving, 1938 ) on the Oslo City Hall by Dagfin Werenskjold ; and the bronze relief on the doors of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities ( around 1950 ) by B. Marklund in Stockholm, Sweden.

Industrial robots for processes such as assembly, handling, welding, painting and sealing, as well as automation systems for distribution and logistics such as automated product-and cargo-handling systems for plants and airports.

Millais never returned to " blade by blade " landscape painting, nor to the vibrant greens of his own outdoor work in the early fifties, although the assured handling of his broader freer, later style is equally accomplished in its close observation of scenery.

While the painterly handling of the works inspired comparison to Impressionism, and the emotional tone suggested a narrative more akin to genre painting, specifically Degas's Interior, the documentary realism of the Camden Town paintings was without precedent in British art.

A trip to England in 1825 included visits to Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington, and the colour and handling of English painting provided impetus for his only full-length portrait, the elegant Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter, ( 1826 – 30 ).

In 1855, a critic described the painting's vibrant handling as " Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that supreme moment when one more stroke of the brush would have ruined everything ".

Carracci's art also had a less formal side that comes out in his caricatures ( he is generally credited with inventing the form ) and in his early genre paintings, which are remarkable for their lively observation and free handling and his painting of The Beaneater.

They show an undue tendency to redness in the flesh painting — a defect which is still more apparent in his later works, ‘ in which the handling is less " square ," crisp and forcible.

Its sensitive handling of light — in particular, natural light filtered into an otherwise unlit interior space — led 19th century art historians to attribute it to Johannes Vermeer, with whose work the painting does bear strong similarities.

The painting of less expensive puppets is handled expediently with a spray technique, using templates, and with a different person handling each color.

Stunts could involve handling animals, painting, dancing or creating sound effects.

Through his careful handling of lustre and reflection, the display of these objects in one painting can be interpreted as a contribution to the paragone debate. 2000

" Primitives " in the context of 15th-and 16th-century art does not refer to any perceived lack of sophistication ; rather it identifies the artists as the originators of a new tradition in painting, notably for the innovative handling of oil paint over tempera.

An important distinction that made color field painting different from abstract expression was the paint handling.

In distinction to the emotional energy and gestural surface marks and paint handling of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Color Field painting initially appeared to be cool and austere.

It also furnishes a record of the environmental conditions the painting has experienced during its lifetime, such as temperature and humidity, and can also reveal details about the painting's history of handling, transportation, and restoration.

The Morse painting is the masterwork of an excellently trained artist, deft at handling complicated perspective constructions and large groups of figures.

The piece, " Le Marché aux Poissons " (" The Fish Market " in English ), is a color monotype, a one-of-a-kind print made by painting on glass and then transferring the wet paint to a piece of paper.

In their attempts to revive the brilliance of colour found in Quattrocento art, Hunt and Millais developed a technique of painting in thin glazes of pigment over a wet white ground.

His method of developing the watercolor painting in stages, starting with large, vague color areas established on wet paper, then refining the image through a sequence of washes and glazes, permitted him to produce large numbers of paintings with workshop efficiency and made him a multimillionaire in part through sales from his personal art gallery, the first of its kind.

Wet in wet includes any application of paint or water to an area of the painting that is already wet with either paint or water.

In general, wet in wet is one of the most distinctive features of watercolor painting and the technique that produces a striking painterly effect.

Wet in wet actually comprises a variety of specific painting effects, each produced through different procedures.

Because the hydrophilic and closely spaced cellulose fibers of the paper provide traction for capillary action, water and wet paint have a strong tendency to migrate from wetter to drier surfaces of the painting.

Some artists pour large quantities of slightly diluted paint onto separate areas of the painting surface, then by using a brush, spray bottle of water and / or judicious tilting of the painting support, cause the wet areas to gently merge and mix.

After the color has been mixed and allowed to set for a few minutes, the painting is tipped vertically to sheet off all excess moisture ( the lighter colors across the darker ones ), leaving behind a paper stained with random, delicate color variations, which can be further shaped with a wet brush or added paint while the paper is still wet.

A similar effect can be produced by spraying a moist ( not shiny but still cool to the touch ) paint area with water, using a spray bottle held two or three feet above the painting surface, or by sprinkling a wet paint with coarse sand or sawdust.

At the other extreme from wet in wet techniques, Drybrush is the watercolor painting technique for precision and control, supremely exemplified in many botanical paintings and in the drybrush watercolors of Andrew Wyeth.

Each technique has its purpose — the first provides color accuracy ( for photorealist painting ), the second provides color variety ( especially in dark colors ), the third produces many " wet in wet " effects between wetter and drier paint areas ( for greater color expressiveness ), the fourth can produce a variety of luminous, iridescent or " broken color " effects, similar to mixtures with pastel chalks.

In under thirty minutes, he would turn the blank canvas into an imaginary landscape, using the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, in which the painter continues adding paint on top of still wet paint rather than waiting a lengthy amount of time to allow each layer of paint to dry.

Another clay-animation technique, one that blurs the distinction between stop motion and traditional flat animation, is called clay painting ( also a variation of the direct manipulation animation process ), wherein clay is placed on a flat surface and moved like wet oil paints ( as on a traditional artist's canvas ) to produce any style of images, but with a clay look to them.