Plaster of Paris
A fine white powder (calcium sulphate hemihydrate) which, when mixed with water, forms fully hydrated calcium sulphate, a white solid. Widely used by sculptors for moulds and preliminary casts.
Plaster can be painted when dry, or mixed with pigments while still wet, as in fresco painting. The surface of a plaster sculpture must be sealed to keep dirt from building up in its pores — commonly with wax, shellac or linseed oil.
Plaster casting: see Casting
Plasticine: see Modelling clay
Pointing: used for the indirect method of carving: transposes strategic measurements on the surface of sculpture to reproduce, enlarge or reduce it.
Plaster
When mixed with water, this powder will harden into a chalk-like solid used to create sculptures, and other forms of artwork.
plaster trap - A receptacle fitted under a sink to provide a filter in the draining system. Waste plaster is strained off when tools, etc., are being cleaned. Using plaster without such a trap risks expensive repairs to drainage pipes.
Plaster
A calcium sulfate material that hardens when mixed with water. Used in ceramics for mold-making because it is absorbent and able to reproduce fine details.
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Plaster or cement used as a coating for walls.
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Desk lamp of metal, usually brass, having a tubular shaft and either one or two arms. Shades are of opaque glass usually in dark green or white.
This plaster head is a true likeness of the young king. He is pictured emerging from the lotus flower, just as the sungod Osiris had done when he came into existence from a lotus flower on the surface of the ocean at the creation of the universe.
Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain.
The term plaster usually refers to plaster of Paris (also called gesso)- a pasty composition that hardens on drying and is used for coating interior walls, ceilings, and partitions.
Ohne Titel Plaster, Copper. 1993
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Gesso: A plaster like material spread upon a surface to prepare it for painting.
Reproducing in plaster, bronze, or plastic, an original piece ofsculpture made of clay, wax, or similar material.
Ceramic:
Any object made of clay and fired.
Painting on wet plaster where the paint is chemically bound to the plaster, and is integral to the wall or support.
Still Life with Plaster Cupid, 1895
Paul Cezanne was much less scientific in his approach to painting than was Seurat. His paint seems to be layed down in patches of color, dividing his canvases into many various planes.
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.
STAGE 2 - A simple plaster mould was made with ‘legs' to enable it to be free-standing.
The final layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted. inventio (It. "invention") ...
fresco - art of painting with watercolors on wet plaster freshlyapplied to a surface right before painting ...
casting A process that involves pouring liquid material such as molten metal, clay, wax, or plaster into a mold. When the liquid hardens, the mold is removed, leaving a form in the shape of the mold.
FRESCOS: wall paintings made by painting onto wet plaster
FUNCTIONAL: having a special purpose
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GEOMETRIC: shapes and forms related to mathematical principles.
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.
HALF-TIMBER WORK, an architectural term given to those buildings in which the framework is of timber with vertical studs and cross pieces filled in between with brickwork, rubble masonry or plaster work on oak laths; in the first two, ...
A mould was made by pouring plaster of Paris over a page of type and leaving it to set; molten metal could then be poured over the face of the mould in a casting box.
Casting: A method of duplicating a work of sculpture by pouring a hardening substance such as plaster or molten metal into a mold.
Wall painting in which pigments are mixed with water and applied to lime plaster that is still wet. The plaster serves both as the GROUND and the BINDER for the medium.
In the case of a fresco, the completed cartoon would be placed on the wet plaster of the wall and the outlines pricked or incised through the paper.
The convent of San Marco was taken over by his Order in 1436, and he was commissioned to decoarte the friar's cells with frescoes painted directly on to wet plaster walls.
fresco Wall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image.
technique for decorating stuccoed walls, in which a layer of plaster is applied over a different coloured layer, and a design then scratched through the top layer. Popular in 16thC Italy.
Indeed, recent investigations of the technical processes used show that he worked more and more rapidly, reducing and finally eliminating such preparatory helps as complete drawings and incisions on the plaster surface.
Fresco is wall paint in which limeproof pigments are mixed with water and applied to lime plaster that is still wet. The plaster serves both as ground and binder.
The colours become incorporated with the substance of the plaster, and if the process is properly carried out, are as lasting as the plaster itself. It is suitable only for dry climates, as damp causes the plaster to crumble.
Fresco:- Meaning "fresh" in Italian, fresco is the art of painting with pure pigments ground in water on uncured (wet) lime plaster. An ancient technique used world wide by artists of many ages and cultures.
Neapolitan Fisherboy, for example, was a subject Carpeaux had submitted in plaster to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved this marble version several years later, showing it eventually in the Salon exhibition of 1863.
A painting technique in which pigments are dispersed in plain water and applied to a damp plaster wall that becomes the binder as well as the support or painting surface; ...
George Segal’s white plaster body casts depict both an individual and a type of figure: an artist’s model.
Oldenburg's work is full of humorous irony and contradiction: on one hand he makes hard objects like a bathroom sink out soft sagging vinyl, while on the other he makes soft objects like a cheeseburger out of hard painted plaster.
Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, to accurately link the component parts of the composition when painted onto plaster over a series of days.
fresco Painting on plaster, either dry (fresco secco) or wet (buon or true fresco).
Basically a mixture of plaster of Paris (90%), Portland cement (5%) and crystalline silica (5%) andoften referred to as Hydro-Stone Gypsum Cement. Hydrostone is a U.S. gypsum product which is considerably harder than plaster of Paris alone.
A fresco is made using pigments mixed with water painted onto a wall when the plaster is still wet. A fresco painted on dry plaster, called fresco secco, is less durable than a true fresco, or buon fresco.
A technique of painting which consists of applying diluted paint to fresh, damp lime plaster. This method creates a chemical reaction which, in drying, transforms the lime of the plaster into calcium carbonate.
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.
Artists painted on portable panels and directly onto the plaster walls (fresco) of their rooms. For interior rooms Romans loved trompe-l'oeil effects and mythological and erotic scenes.
fresco A method of painting on fresh plaster with water based paints; the design is then absorbed into the plaster as it dries and becomes a permanent part of the surface. Painting onto dry plaster is called secco-fresco.
Lime is used in plaster, mortar, and cement to form durable aggregates. When calcium carbonate is heated, carbon dioxide is driven off leaving anhydrous calcium oxide or quicklime.
Instruction progressed from drawing from classical statues or plaster casts to modeling from nudes to applying paint to original work.
Fresco : The technique of blending wet plaster with water based paint. As the plaster dries it becomes a lasting surface base. The term applies to the technique as well as the painting itself.
Fresco (Ital. fresh) Wall-painting in a medium like watercolor on plaster. True fresco (buon fresco) is one of the most permanent forms of wall decoration because the pigment is applied while the plaster is still damp.
Gipsoteca. A collection of plaster moulds used to produce series of statues, bas-reliefs, medallions etc.
Gothic. Style which influenced first architecture and later painting, sculpture and the minor arts.
The word 'fresco' comes from the Italian 'affresco' meaning fresh. Fresco paintings can be done in two ways. 'Buon fresco' paintings are done on wet plaster, while 'a secco' paintings are completed on dried plaster.
gesso A mixture of glue and either chalk or plaster of Paris applied as a ground or coating to surfaces in order to give them the correct properties to receive paint. Gesso can also be built up or molded into relief designs, or carved.
GESSO - An under-painting medium consisting of glue, plaster of Paris, or chalk and water. Gesso is used to size the canvas and prepare the surface for painting. Red Rag Scottish Artist Jock MacInnes paintings are undretaken on Gesso boards.
Italian for "dry". A technique of wall-painting onto dry plaster, or lime plaster that is dampened shortly before paint is applied Return to top
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Fresco
In the fine arts, fresco is the art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries. Murals can also be created with watercolors on wet plaster.
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.
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The art of painting on freshly spread plaster before it dries, or in any manner
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fresco - Wall painting in water-based paint on moist plaster, mostly from the 14th to the 16th centuries; used mostly before the Renaissance produced oil paint as a more easily handled medium.
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