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  2. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Hand-colouring with watercolours requires the use of a medium to prevent the colours from drying with a dull and lifeless finish. Before the paint can be applied, the surface of the print must be primed so that the colours are not repelled. This often includes prepping the print with a thin coating of shellac, then adding grit before colouring ...

  3. Guernica (Picasso) - Wikipedia

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    Scholars and art critics argue that the black and white photographic style of the painting can be attributed to Maar's own black and white photographs, in stark contrast to Picasso's usual colorful style. [20] Guernica was painted using a matte house paint specially formulated at Picasso's request to have the least possible gloss. [1]

  4. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Colors also have value; for example, yellow has a high value while blue and red have a low value. If you take a black and white picture of a colorful scene, all you are left with are the values. This important element of design, especially in painting and drawing, allows the artist to create the illusion of light through value contrast. [6]

  5. Isle of the Dead (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Design elements from the painting appear in mattes [18] and sets [19] in the 1951 film The Tales of Hoffmann. [11] A large copy of the painting appears on a wall midway through Terry Gilliam's 1995 science fiction movie 12 Monkeys. The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes references the painting in its set design and lighting for the villain's personal ...

  6. De pictura - Wikipedia

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    Figure from the 1804 edition of Della picture showing the vanishing point Rendition of Alberti's description of how a circle projected as an ellipse Figure showing pillars in perspective on a grid. De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version ...

  7. Kharkiv School of Photography - Wikipedia

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    One well-known example was the "Springtime in the Forest (Lilies of the Valley) (1975) montage by Oleksandr Suprun, where the same flower fragment was used 51 times. Later, Evgeniy Pavlov mastered the art of photomontage using black-and-white photos with manual coloring and scratching. [4]

  8. Chiaroscuro - Wikipedia

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    Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.

  9. Monochrome painting - Wikipedia

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    The 1998 Tony award winning Broadway play 'Art' employed a white monochrome painting as a prop to generate an argument about aesthetics which made up the bulk of the play. The 1995 Cesar award winning movie The Three Brothers featured a white monochrome painting by fictitious artist Whiteman (inspired by K. Malevich White on White masterpiece).