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  2. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits, or other solvents to make the paint thinner, faster or slower drying. (Because the solvents thin the oil in the paint, they can also be ...

  3. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Lining an entire painting has largely fallen out of favor due to the invasive nature of the treatment. Minimalist intervention emphasizes the maintenance of the original integrity of a painting, so long as it is able to be displayed and the image is not disrupted. [2] However, patches are sometimes applied to strengthen specific areas of a ...

  4. Transfer of panel paintings - Wikipedia

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    The ground of the painting was then removed by solvents or scraping, until nothing remained but a thin skin of colour, pasted over with paper and held together by the muslin. A prepared canvas was then attached to the back of the paint layer, using the same method as was used for lining pictures. When the glue had dried, the paper and muslin ...

  5. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    Painting types include fine art to decorative and functional objects spanning from acrylics, frescoes, and oil paint on various surfaces, egg tempera on panels and canvas, lacquer painting, water color and more. Knowing the materials of any given painting and its support allows for the proper restoration and conservation practices.

  6. Impasto - Wikipedia

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    Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, [1] usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.

  7. Ground (art) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a painting done on commercially-prepared canvas is Willem de Kooning's 1955 abstract expressionist oil painting, Woman-Ochre. [9] In "Layer by Layer: Studying Woman-Ochre," the J. Paul Getty Museum describes the painting surface, noting that an unprimed selvedge on the canvas "is a clue that this canvas was prepared in a factory ...

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