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Gesso" is the Italian word for "chalk" (akin to the Greek word "gypsum"), and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. This is the foundation used to size the canvas and prepare the surface for painting.
Gesso
In the broad sense it is a mixture of a plaster or like substance and a glue. Its purpose was to present the painter with a smooth, hard, white ground on which to paint.
Gesso
From the Italian for gypsum or plaster. This is used in the making of grounds for painting. The traditional gesso is made from a combination of hide glue and whiting, sometimes with pigment added.
Gesso: A mixture of plaster, chalk, or gypsum bound together with a glue which is applied as a ground or coating to surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive paint.
Gesso
(1)'Gesso' is the Italian word for chalk, and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate.
Gesso
A mixture of glue and either chalk or plaster of Paris applied as a ground or coating surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive paint; A white, ground material composed of chalk, ...
Gesso An underpainting medium consisting of glue, plaster of paris, or chalk and water. Gesso is used to size the canvas and prepare the surface for painting.
Gesso
A paste prepared with size or glue and spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding.
Gilding
Decorating with thin gold overlay.
Gesso: A plaster like material spread upon a surface to prepare it for painting.
gesso - Plaster or a fine plaster-like material made of gypsum, which is also called whiting, used for sculptures.
GESSO an under painting medium made of glue, plaster of Paris or chalk and water.
GESTURE the implication of motion in a shape.
GLAZE a glass-like coating that makes ceramics waterproof.
Gesso: Ground plaster, chalk or marble mixed with glue or acrylic medium, generally white. It provides an absorbent ground for oil, acrylic, and tempera painting.
GESSO
A white ground material for preparing rigid supports for painting. made of a mixture of chalk, white pigment, and glue. Same name applied to acrylic bound chalk and pigment used on flexible supports as well as rigid.
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gesso - An undercoating medium used on the canvas or other painting surface before painting, to prime the canvas; usually a white, chalky, thick liquid.
Gesso
A prepared plaster of chalk and white lead which may be cast to make repeating ornamental forms in relief to be applied to wood panels, plaster surfaces, etc.
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Gesso. A form of plaster used as a ground for modelling or painting; it has a brilliantly white, smooth-textured surface. Frequently used on furniture in low relief, and gilded.
Gesso
A GROUND made of gypsum or chalk mixed with water or glue to provide a dense, brilliantly white absorbent surface for TEMPERA and some types of OIL PAINTING.
Gesso is the special coating for acrylic paints but can be used for oil colour, and it cannot be used for other types of media coating such as water colour. The same goes for oil colour base coating, it cannot be used for acrylic colours.
Gesso: Absorbent ground (of chalk or gypsum) used as a base for tempera painting or some kinds of oil painting.
Gilding: The application of gold leaf to the surface of a painting or other surface.
GESSO; mixture of chalk whiting and glue which makes ideal surface for painting in oils or acrylics.
Also see canvas, gesso, ground, nail, panel, paper, polyurethane, primer, size, and support.
gesso - gypsum, chalk or plaster of Paris mixed with glue and applied to a surface as an absorbent primer for paint, gilding etc.
Panel: A wooden surface used for painting, usually in tempera and prepared beforehand with a layer of gesso. Recently panels of masonite or other composite material have come into use.
A cardboard coated with gesso and then with a dark color such as India ink. The drawing is then done by scratching into the dark surface to expose the white board. This will give the look of a wood engraving.
The ground is of white gesso (a chalk mixed with size, or glue), but it was common practice to cover this with a thin under-painting of terra verde (green earth) or verdaccio, ...
Sixteenth-century cassoni were elaborately carved with mythological and grotesque figures, decorated with gilt gesso, putti (cupids), and swags of fruit and flowers, or enriched with intarsia (mosaics of wood).
Many of his altarpieces still employ gold backgrounds and incorporate areas of raised gilded gesso for haloes, costume ornaments, etc. all practices which had been out of fashion in the more advanced centres for many years (e.g.
 See also: Painting, Sculpture, Tempera, Panel, Movement
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