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Sgraffito (Italian: [zɡrafˈfiːto]; pl. sgraffiti) is an artistic or decorative technique of scratching through a coating on a hard surface to reveal parts of another underlying coating which is in a contrasting colour.
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.
The most common decoration is burnishing to give a soft shine and fine lines in black and ochre. Another form of decoration adds decorative elements in clay over the walls of the vessel and sgraffito is usually done with only one color such as black on black. A relatively rare form of decoration for the pottery is the incision of the clay ...
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White-ground vases were produced, for example, in Ionia, Laconia and on the Cycladic islands, but only in Athens did it develop into a veritable separate style beside black-figure and red-figure vase painting. For that reason, the term "white-ground pottery" or "white-ground vase painting" is usually used in reference to the Attic material only.
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, vase of flowers, watercolor on paper, 17 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (45.1 cm × 29.2 cm), between 1903 and 1905. O'Keeffe experimented with depicting flowers in her high school art class. Her teacher explained how important it was to examine the flower before drawing it.
Madonna of the Rose Garden may refer to: Madonna of the Rose Garden (Verona), a c. 1420–1435 painting now in Verona, Italy; Madonna of the Rose Bower (Lochner), a c. 1440 painting by Stefan Lochner; Madonna of the Rose Bower (Schongauer), a 1473 painting by Martin Schongauer; Madonna of the Rose Garden (Botticelli), a c. 1469–70 painting by ...