Grisaille
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GRISAILLE, a French term, derived from gris, grey, for painting in monochrome in various shades of grey, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief.
Grisaille is a monochrome painting using shades of gray only (sometimes brown). Grisaille was used by Renaissance artists to depict or imitate relief sculpture in paintings.
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Monochromatic painting done entirely in shades of gray, not unlike a black and white photograph. Grisaille is especially useful for representing, in two dimensions, relief sculpture.
grisaille - A style of monochromatic painting in shades of gray, used especially for the representation of relief sculpture.
illusionism - A style of painting which makes two-dimensional objects appear to be three-dimensional.
Grisaille : A stained glass window incorporating muted tones as opposed to bright colors.
Grisaille
A monochromatic or one-colour paint, typically grey, that can be used under coloured glazes.
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Grisaille: Monochrome painting generally employing shades of gray executed in a black pigment and an inert white pigment in oil, gouache or tempera; a stained glass window incorporating muted tones as opposed to bright colors.
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Grisaille
A work done entirely in monochrome or a drawing executed in gray tones. A grisaille can be the first stage in building up an oil painting or it could be used as a model for an engraver to work from.
Grisaille: The technique of painting a highly-modeled, black and white monochromatic base painting and then glazing it with transparent colors.
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grog - Clay which has been fired and ground into fine granules, used as an ingredient in a clay body or as a base on which clay is worked or fired which allows the form to contract freely as it dries.
grisaille - (pronounced gri-zale) - Painting entirely in monochrome (tones of one color), in a series of grays. Strictly speaking, monochrome is in any one color, such as red, blue or black; grisaille means in neutral grays only (French term).
Grisaille
A MONOCHROME painting executed entirely in shades of gray. A grisaille may be done as a finished painting or as an UNDERPAINTING. See also EN CAMAIEU.
Grisaille - Chiaroscuro painting in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief.
En grisaille: En grisaille denotes an entirely gray monochromatic composition.
Figure drawing: Figure drawing is a type of drawing that depicts the human form.
Grisaille
A painting done primarily in tones of grey (ex. Picasso's Guernica).
Grisaille
A monochrome painting and drawing technique executed in tones of gray.
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grisaille - grayness, monochromatic painting in shades of gray often used as an under painting *
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GRISAILLE
a black, gray, and white painting usually used as an underpainting.
HARD EDGE
an area in a pinting where there is a sudden change in value or color.
IMPASTO
thickly painted surface that has a noticeable physical depth.
LIGHTFASTNESS ...
Often these paintings are black and white, or otherwise grisaille. Such as in Bridget Riley's famous painting, Current (1964), on the cover of The Responsive Eye catalogue, ...
Hyperrealist painters and sculptors make allowances for some mechanical means of transferring images to the canvas or mold, including preliminary drawings or grisaille underpaintings and molds.
Rubens decorated the external wall of his studio with several murals in grisaille, ...
The external decoration shows the Erithraean and Cumaean Sibyls, Prophets Zacharias and Micheas, the figures of Jodocus Vyd, the donor, and his wife Isabelle Borluut kneeling on either side of two grisaille (painted in gray to resemble statuary) ...
These wings depicting four saints are painted in grisaille (shades of gray) and already show the artist at the height of his powers.
These two panels are painted with the subtly varied grays known by the French term “grisaille,' a palette that mimicked the appearance of stone sculpture and was used most often, as here, on the exteriors of altarpiece shutters.
Painters can also use the Indirect method by applying many glazes of only transparent colors over a drawing or a grisaille. The traditional drawing colors are medium brown (Umber), earth green (Terre Vert) or warm medium grey.
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b and w - Abbreviation for black and white. Also see gradation, grisaille, monochromatic, neutral, photography, and value.
Noun
1. a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
(hypernym) picture, image, icon, ikon
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The technique of glazing has a long history and is an integral part of many methods of oil painting including grisaille where the work begins as a monochromatic image. The work is then developed through several layers of glazing and overpaintings.
resemblance derives entirely from an inner affinity reinforced by the inspiration of Cézanne just as it may do when cross-hatch pictures such as The Dutch Wives and the Usuyuki series seem to be emulating the use of straight lines and a grisaille ...
Grisaille
technique of monochrome painting in shades of gray, used as underpainting or to imitate the effect of relief.
Ground
layer of preparation on a support to receive paint.
 See also: Painting, Sculpture, Movement, Panel, Glaze
  
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