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Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, [ 1]: 254 [ 2] is a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. [ 3] The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh. [ 4][ 5] Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the ...
Blackamoor is a type of figure/visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African descent, usually in clothing that suggests high status. Common examples of items and objects decorated in the blackamoor style include sculpture, jewellery, and furniture.
Lawn jockeys. A lawn jockey is a statue depicting a man in jockey clothes, intended to be placed in front yards as hitching posts, similar to those of footmen bearing lanterns near entrances and gnomes in gardens. The lawn ornament, popular in certain parts of the United States and Canada in years past, [ 1] was a cast replica, usually about ...
A road being resurfaced using a road roller. Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands. Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City. A road surface ( British English) or pavement ( North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot ...
The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida. Two of the original artists, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair, received training from Alfred “Beanie” Backus. It is believed they may have created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings.
The Sherwin-Williams Company. Sherwin-Williams Company is an American company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is primarily engaged in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of paints, coatings, floorcoverings, and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers, primarily in North and South America and Europe.
Maki-e sake bottle with Tokugawa clan 's mon (emblem), Japan, Edo period. Lacquer plate, Nam Định province, Vietnam, Nguyễn dynasty. Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from resin extracted from trees and waxes and has been in use since antiquity.