Tags can contain subtle and sometimes cryptic messages, and might incorporate the artist's crew initials or other letters.

Much meaning can be added to a painting by its title, but the titles of Hopper's paintings were sometimes chosen by others, or were selected by Hopper and his wife in a way that makes it unclear whether they have any real connection with the artist's meaning.

Small brushstrokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artist's emotion and focus on inner energy, and sometimes contemplation, creating expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities in the paintings.

Artist's proofs are not included in the count of a limited edition, and sometimes the number of artist's proofs, which belong to the artist, can be surprisingly high at twenty or more.

" Calx " is also sometimes used in older texts on artist's techniques to mean calcium oxide.

The two are sometimes confused, especially in jazz, as specific release dates for jazz records are often difficult to ascertain, and session dates are substituted as a means of organizing an artist's catalogue.

Lost-wax casting sometimes called by the French name of cire perdue ( from the Latin cera perduta ) is the process by which a metal ( such as silver, gold, brass or bronze ) sculpture is cast from an artist's sculpture.

By extension, it is used in English to designate a master in an artistic field, usually someone with strong knowledge who instructs others in the field, though the term may sometimes be conferred through sheer respect for an artist's works.

These were either works made by individual Fluxus artists, sometimes in collaboration with Maciunas, or, most controversially, Maciunas's own interpretations of an artist's concept or score.

Critics argue the site often emphasizes a reviewers ' own writing over the actual music being reviewed, sometimes not even reviewing the album and instead criticising the artist's integrity.

It is sometimes used for artist's paint, printmaking, calligraphic and drawing inks as well as other artistic applications because of its deepness.

Jacopo d ’ Andrea Saltarelli ( b. 1459 ) was an apprentice goldsmith and male prostitute, sometimes described in modern literature as an artist's model, about which nothing is known except the details of court records of several charges of prostitution, in one of which Leonardo da Vinci was among the accused.

Retrospective compilations are sometimes assembled from an artist's greatest hits.

An album cover normally has the artist's name, sometimes in logo form ; and the album title.

As in most Jacovitti's comics, the page is full of strange things: all around the place one can find salami ( sometimes legged ), worms with legs and hats, fish bones ( typically close to the artist's signature ), as well as horses with only two legs ridden by a man with four legs, and other absurdities.

Outside, on both sides of the eight-story building, more than 28, 000 tiles painted and fired by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennard, depicting abstract blue flowers, were placed on the walls according to the artist's exact specifications.

Colour was somber and conservative, and traces of brush strokes were suppressed, concealing the artist's personality, emotions, and working techniques.

Whilst these works were usually collages incorporating found objects, such as bus tickets, old wire and fragments of newsprint, Merz also included artist's periodicals, sculptures, sound poems and what would later be called " installations ".

The coat-of-arms of Vasari's Medici patrons appear at the top of his portrait, quite as if they were the artist's own.

The blossoms depicted were sent weekly to the artist's London studio from the Riviera for four months during the winter of 1887 – 1888.

The letters were first annotated in 1913 by Theo's widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger who explained that she published them with ' trepidation ' because she did not want the drama in the artist's life to overshadow his work.

They were often featured at seaside locations, showing ( usually ) sequences of women undressing or acting as an artist's model.

Or was their disappearance occasioned by the artist's hiding them at his urging, and the skill with which they were hidden, and so the long time to find them, stemmed from his urgency?

The album became the artist's most commercially successful since Diamonds and Pearls, partly due to a radical scheme devised which included in Billboard's sales figures those that were distributed to each customer during ticket sales for the Musicology tour, with concert figures accounting for 25 % of the total album sales.

The paintings from this arrangement were thus different from his previous depictions of friends and lovers in that they were funded by Zborowski either for his own collection, as a favor to his friend, or with an eye to their " commercial potential ", rather than originating from the artist's personal circle of acquaintances.

Many of his paintings are collaborations in which figures by other painters were placed in landscapes painted by Jan Brueghel ; in other cases, Brueghel painted the figures into another artist's landscape or architectural interior.

Although some of Constable's works came to the museum with the Sheepshanks bequest, the majority of the artist's works were donated by his daughter Isabel in 1888, including the large number of sketches in oil, the most significant being the 1821 full size oil sketch for The Hay Wain.

These were included in several 20th century translations, including, eventually, one by the artist's son Jack Lindsay.

This system was originally developed for transmitting classical genres such as nagauta, shakuhachi, or koto music, but since it proved profitable to teachers and was supported by students who wished to obtain certificates of proficiency and artist's names continues to spread to genres such as min ' yō, Tsugaru-jamisen and other forms of music that were traditionally transmitted more informally.

Songs that were not part of an artist's collection of albums are made available through the same downloadable catalogs as tracks from their albums, and are usually referred to as " unreleased ," " bonus " " non-album ," " rare ," " outtakes " or " exclusive " tracks, the latter in the case of a song being available solely from a certain provider of music.

There were various methods of transferring the artist's drawn design onto the block for the cutter to follow.

While minimalist in form, however, these paintings were quite different in spirit from those of her other minimalist counterparts, retaining small flaws and unmistakable traces of the artist's hand ; she shied away from intellectualism, favoring the personal and spiritual.

* Gum bichromate: One of the pictorialists ' favorites, these prints were made by applying gum Arabic, potassium bichromate and one or more artist's colored pigments to paper.

The channel played an artist's Artist Collection ( by this time, there were around 100 episodes of Artist Collection ), and then followed it by other MTV programming that featured the artist, such as Making The Video, Ultrasound, and / or a live performance, depending on what was available in the MTV archives.

Among the productions of Northcote's later years are the " Entombment " and the " Agony in the Garden ," besides many portraits, and several animal subjects, such as " Leopards ", " Dog and Heron ", and " Lion "; these were more successful than the artist's efforts in the higher departments of art, as was indicated by Fuseli's caustic remark on examining the " Angel opposing Balaam " --" Northcote, you are an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel.

The parents, who according to the artist's granddaughter, Martha Babcock Amory, came to Boston in 1736, were " engaged in trade, like almost all the inhabitants of the North American colonies at that time ".

This highly sought-after body of work contains over 2, 400 artworks ( roughly 825 paintings on canvas and 1575 works on paper-drawings and limited-edition fine-art prints ) representing all periods of the American artist's distinguished career and nearly 94 % of his total output.

Staged by way of announcing the gift of a large and intimate Sloan collection by the artist's widow, Helen Farr Sloan, to the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents a survey of Sloan's work.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

On the other hand " Gülpembe ", composed by Kurtalan Ekspres bassist Ahmet Güvenç, a requiem for Manço's grandmother, caught older audiences and probably is the artist's most popular song, competing perhaps only with " Dağlar Dağlar ".

The term " rendering " may be by analogy with an " artist's rendering " of a scene.

An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.

Leocadia Weiss ( née Zorrilla, b. 1790 ) the artist's maid, younger by 35 years, and a distant relative, lived with and cared for Goya after Bayeu's death.

The development of Impressionism can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to the challenge presented by photography, which seemed to devalue the artist's skill in reproducing reality.

Dance in Congo Square in the late 1700s, artist's conception by E. W. Kemble from a century later.

However, this story is discounted by modern historians on the grounds of contemporary evidence, and may merely have been a reflection of the artist's own perspective.

When the work was restored in 1993, the conservators chose not to remove all the perizomas of Daniele, leaving some of them as a historical document, and because some of Michelangelo ’ s work was previously scraped away by the touch-up artist's application of “ decency ” to the masterpiece.

Although parchment never stopped being used ( primarily for governmental documents and diplomas ) it had ceased to be a primary choice for artist's supports by the end of 15th century Renaissance.

Though the archetypal pencil was an artist's brush, the stylus, a thin metal stick used for scratching in papyrus or wax tablets, was used extensively by the Romans, and for palm-leaf manuscripts.

Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.

King produced an artist's book with designer Barbara Kruger in 1988, My Pretty Pony, published in a limited edition of 250 by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, later released in a general trade edition by Alfred A. Knopf in 1989.

High-precision test of general relativity by the Cassini-Huygens | Cassini space probe ( artist's impression ): radio signals sent between the Earth and the probe ( green wave ) are Shapiro effect | delayed by the warping of space and time ( blue lines ) due to the Sun's mass.

The color box at right displays the web color dark violet which is equivalent to pigment violet, i. e., the color violet as it would typically be reproduced by artist's paints, colored pencils, or crayons as opposed to the brighter " electric " violet above that it is possible to reproduce on a computer screen.

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

An artist's conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion.