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2. Stretcher bar - Wikipedia

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   It allows the canvas weave to "roll over" the profile rather than snap over a sharp edge which is a major cause of canvas cracking. [3] It also increases the surface area of the frame, which reduces its friction with the canvas. This will make it easier to pull the canvas and make it more taut. [4]

3. Grattage - Wikipedia

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   grattage. Grattage (literally "scratching", "scraping") is a technique in surrealist painting which consists of "scratching" fresh paint with a sharp blade. [1] [2]In this technique, one typically attempts to scratch and remove the chromatic pigment spread on a prepared support (the canvas or other material) [3] in order to move the surface and make it dynamic. [4]

4. 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 ...

5. Picture frame - Wikipedia

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   View of a frame-maker's workshop, oil on canvas, circa 1900 The elaborate decoration on this frame may be made by adhering molded plaster pieces to the wood base.. A picture frame is a container that borders the perimeter of a picture, and is used for the protection, display, and visual appreciation of objects and imagery such as photographs, canvas paintings, drawings and prints, posters ...

6. This is the grown-up way to decorate your space with posters

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   We'll be frank, there's a right way (and a very wrong way) to do posters in your home. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Elections ...

7. Wet-on-wet - Wikipedia

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   Wet-on-wet painting has been practiced alongside other techniques since the development of oil painting and was used by several of the major Early Netherlandish painters in parts of their pictures, such as Jan van Eyck in the Arnolfini portrait, and Rogier van der Weyden.