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  2. Alan Resnick - Wikipedia

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    Before working on Adult Swim, Resnick first gained recognition for creating the popular YouTube web series, alantutorial, in 2011. [2] The surrealist series initially began as a tutorial channel from a man attempting to instruct the viewer on nonsensical tasks. Over the course of three years, the series gained strong horror elements as the ...

  3. Canvas - Wikipedia

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    Splined canvas can be restretched by adjusting the spline. Stapled canvases stay stretched tighter over a longer period of time, but are more difficult to re-stretch when the need arises. Canvas boards are made of canvas stretched over and glued to a cardboard backing, and sealed on the backside. The canvas is typically linen primed for a ...

  4. Scratchboard - Wikipedia

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    Scratchboard or scraperboard or scratch art [1] is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white or colored layer beneath. The technique uses sharp knives and tools for engraving into the scratchboard, which is usually cardboard covered in a thin layer of white China clay coated with black India ink .

  5. Mark Kistler - Wikipedia

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    The show was broadcast to 11 million PBS viewers each week, far surpassing his original one million student goal. His art style is a cartoon 3D style that is focused on basic drawing techniques such as foreshortening, shading, surface, size, overlapping, contour, and density. [3] His first book "Draw Squad" was released in 1988.

  6. Timeline for invention in the arts - Wikipedia

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    1917 – the Readymade was invented and exhibited by Marcel Duchamp with his work "The Fountain", an upturned urinal signed by the artist. The Readymade expanded the definition of art and of an artist. [4] 1917 – De Stijl, a kind of art based on pure geometry, was invented by Theo van Doesburg.

  7. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Mona Lisa (1503–1517) by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most recognizable paintings.. Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2]

  8. Support (art) - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known use of fabrics as a painting support dates back to the Dynasty XII in Egypt (2000 BC).The continuous use can be traced in both Europe and Asia. In Medieval Europe fabrics was overtaken by the wood panels for church use; Renaissance, with its wider spread of paintings, saw wide use of canvas, occasionally glued to the wood, a practice that originated in the Ancient Egypt, but ...

  9. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million, [19] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an ...