Accent

Accent
Where an artist highlights certain elements in a painting allowing the work to attract more attention. Accent can also refer to the details that define an object or piece of art.

Accent
In design, a distinctive feature or quality, such as a feature that accentuates or complements a decorative style.

Accent: A detail, brushstroke, or area of color placed in a painting for emphasis.
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ACCENT
Emphasis given to certain elements in a painting which makes them attract more attention. Details that define an object or piece of art.
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Accent: to stress, single out as important. As applied to art it is the emphasis given to certain elements in a painting that allows them to attract more attention. Details that define an object or piece of art.

Accent: The emphasis of dark or light in a drawing, or of color in a painting.
Acrylics: A relatively new water soluble pigment made from plastic. It dries faster than oils, and when dissolved, they can be used as water colors.

Accent*
Emphasis given to certain elements in a painting that allows them to attract more attention. Details that define an object or piece of art.

Accent aigu
L'accent aigu est un diacritique de l'alphabet latin hérité de l'accent aigu grec. Il fait ses premières apparitions en français au , introduit par Geoffroy Tory en 1529.
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Also see accent, architecture, carving, kerf, and modeling.
stretcher - Wooden bars, usually made of pine, that constitute a frame over which the canvas of a painting is stretched. Although stretchers can be any shape, most are rectangular.

Red and green accentuate each other in van Gogh's Night Café in Arles, which was painted the same month as the café at left.

How Mali Lost Her Accent, 1991
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This separation from his two friends, whose silhouettes we see in the background, accentuates the feeling of solitude into which the anxious man has plunged, as if to plumb the depths of his distress.

Van Gogh grew up in Brabant (although his parents were not born there), and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: [vÉ'ɲˈÊ�É"ç], ...

Without the help of any verbal joke, he achieves the funniest results simply by seeing and accentuating the comical side of everything.

Refers to ways similarities in a work are accentuated to create an uncomplicated, uniform appearance.
Hatching
Technique of shading using a series of parallel lines.
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing using symbols.
Hue ...

A few blue accents counter the impact of the red and yellow, balancing the composition and providing an element of interest that attracts the viewers' attention.

In the prints of Meditations on the Gospel, a book of devotions written by the Jesuit Hieronymus Nadal on Ignatius' instructions, the accent is therefore on the cruelty of their tortures. Rubens' depiction of Livinus' torture follows the same line.

From the Second Style developed the exuberant fantasy and decorative richness of the Fourth Style; here the architectonic motifs present in the earlier style became more accentuated.

Though probably always speaking with a Ferrarese accent, he wholly identified himself with the Florentines, flattering them while scolding them.

There was a shadowy, less accented foreground which followed the main theme, a strongly lit central plain where scenes taken over from mythology, the Bible and history represented the content of the landscape with staffage-figures to indicate scale.

Example of a letter with a diacritic A diacritical mark or diacritic, also called an accent, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ...

This vast, sunny composition specifically accents one figure: the young man standing in the dinghy beside the large ship. The anchored ships at the left create a wedge-shaped mass that points toward him, as do some rigging lines.

I personally am indebted to Segantini the impressionist, not Segantini the symbolist,, for what I have learned in times past of the mountain and a given way to express it just as it was Ryder who accentuated my already tormented imagination.

Painting landscapes red has served as either an under painting color, as an accent or in mixes. When I am painting abstracts I make much more use of the color red. Red can serve as the main color in the painting. My favorite is Cadmium Red Light.

with the pretensions of these artists-God's-representatives-on-earth, disgust with passion and with real pathological wickedness where it was not worth the bother; disgust with a false form of domination and restriction *en masse*, that accentuates ...

In printing and drawing, Calligraphy is a free and rhythmic use of line to accentuate design, and may have more focus on design than legibility.

Le fauvisme pour Matisse, c'est l'accentuation décisive d'un type de rapport à la couleur qu'il s'emploiera à cultiver : le nerf du système.
-- Marcelin PLEYNET, Système de la peinture.

Façade - The front of a building. The façade accents the entrance of a building and usually prepares the visitor for the architectural style found inside. Also, any other sides of a building when they are emphasized architecturally.

Fillet
A thin moulding used as an accent in framing inside another moulding, liner or mat.
Fine Art
The products of human creativity; works of art collectively ...

Harmony - A principle of design, it refers to a way of combining elements of art to accent their similarities and bind the picture parts into a whole. It is often achieved through the use of repetition and simplicity Return to top ...

Opalescent glass is a generalized term for clear and semi-opaque pressed glass, cloudy, marbled, and sometimes accented with subtle coloring all combining to form a milky opalescence in the glass.

Magical Realism - An art movement of the 20th century ( 1940's - 1950's ) characterized by depictions of everyday reality, but with the element of fantasy or wonder greatly accentuated ( in use of color, ...

A light touch is key: Some sculptors of the American West employ tinted highlights, and certain contemporary bronze sculptors use high color. Unless these accents truly reinforce the intent and plasticity of the piece, ...

The technique of illumination of the surface of a work of art (painting) at one side, and at a very low (grazing) angle, which accentuates through shadow effects the contours, texture, and other features.

rhythm A continuance, a flow, or a feeling of movement achieved by repetition of regulated visual units, the use of measure accents, that directs the eye through a composition.

A registration problem; usually on copiers; where the image appears to bounce back and forth. A bounce usually occurs in one direction depending on how the paper is passing through the machine. This is usually accented by card stock (especially if ...

Drypoint
Drawing directly on the copper plate with a sharp point creates a rough ridge of metal - a burr - along the furrow. When the plate is inked, the burr catches the ink, producing dark, velvety accents.

It relies on heightened lights and darks to give a dramatic feel to a work. Used by Caravaggio and other Baroque painters.
VERDE GRIS
a green underpainting used by artists in an effort to accentuate the reddish tones of flesh.

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