Stretchers are (usually) wood frames used to hold canvas taught in order to keep a relatively even painting surface.
In a fine-arts context, a stretcher is the wooden frame that canvas is stretched on and attached to. A stretcher can be bought ready-made as four bits that fit together, or you can make it yourself if you've some basic DIY skills.
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Stretcher: a wooden frame over which the canvas of a painting is stretched (see illustration).
Support: the material providing a surface upon which an artist applies color, collage, etc.
Stretcher: The wooden frame on which canvas or paper is stretched.
Support: The surface material on which the paint is applied.
STRETCHER
A wooden chassis for textile supports that has expandable corners. Return to top
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Stretcher The wooden frame on which a canvas is stretched. Stretched canvas is less prone to change with atmospheric variations and less susceptible to damage than unstretched canvas.
Stretcher bars - a wooden frame over which the canvas of a painting is stretched.
STRETCHER - The canvas of most contemporary paintings are secured to a wooden frame that is commonly referred to as a stretcher or strainer.
Stretcher Bars - The framework over which oil paintings on canvas and some types of fabric art are stretched. These can be bought in standard sizes and some types can be bought by the length for self-assembly.
STRETCHER BAR - A strip of wood with tongue-and-groove ends. Bars are joined to form an expandable frame over which canvas is stretched.
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Stretcher Marks:
A crease or line of cracks in the ground or paint layer of a painting, following the inside edges of stretcher members or the edges of cross-members caused by the support touching or resting against the members of the stretcher.
STRETCHER; expandable wooden frame that canvas is prepared onto before painting that enables the artist to adjust the tension of the surface.
successive contrast...The afterimage of a complementary color seen after viewing of color.
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.
canvas pliers - wide, flat pliers used to grip and stretch a canvas, and wrap it onto a stretcher bar
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There are stretcher creases along the top, left, and bottom edges; the variance in distance between each crease and the edge of the painting, and the absence of a crease along the right edge, ...
Canvas is usually stretched across a wooden frame called a stretcher, and may be coated with gesso before it is to be used, though gesso is rather brittle and susceptible to cracking.
Stretcher - In painting, a stretcher is a wooden frame on which the canvas support for a painting is stretched ...more info ...
Aside from the traditional frames, which he used from the very beginning, we notice the emergence, from circa 1919 onwards, of plain strips attached to the stretchers to form a narrow edge frame.
The width of the stripes in Frank Stellas's pinstripe paintings were determined by the dimensions of the lumber used for stretchers, visible as the depth of the painting when viewed from the side, ...
In their subject matter (or seeming lack of one), scale (huge), and technique (no brush, no stretcher bars, no easel), the works were shocking to many viewers.
To "key out" is to increase the outward stretch of the stretcher bars. A painting on canvas should always remain taut, but a painting that shows bulges can often be flattened by keying out the stretchers. A painting can be keyed out excessively.
Stretcher
The wooden frame that is used to strain a canvas when preparing it for painting on. The four corners are mitred in such a way that wedges can be driven into them to increase the tension on the canvas.
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Gallery wrap: Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides (Stretcher Bar or strainer bars) and is secured to the back of the wooden frame. The frame is usually 1.25" thick.
To the right, below the temple to Minerve, whose facade in marble of various colours is so similar to buildings designed by Alberti, Empress Helena and her retinue stand around the stretcher where the dead youth lies; suddenly, ...
This has advantages to the publisher (limited inventory) and to the customer (multiple number of size combinations or output medium.) Giclée canvases are stretched on wooden stretcher bars (identical to an original painting), ...
Museum Wrap
(painting) A finishing technique for artwork mounted on stretchers. The fabric is mounted onto stretcher bars with no visible staples on the edge of the frame. Edges are painted dark and no framing is necessary.
Canvas Relined: When the original canvas of a painting has been damaged or weakened, the piece is removed from its stretchers, backed in linen or canvas, and placed on its original stretchers or on new ones.
canvas: linen or cotton cloth tightly stretched over and attached to wooden stretcher bars to create a taut surface for oil or acrylic painting.
carving: shaping wood, stone, or marble by scraping, cutting, and chipping.
Dezeuze, for example, produced works whose main component was a canvas stretcher, either painted or, as in Frame (1967; Paris, Pompidou), covered with transparent plastic.
For use as a painting support, canvas is usually stretched over a stretcher, a wooden frame specially made for stretching artist's canvas, and then tacked or stapled.
Starting in 1958, Fontana further reduced his paintings by creating matte, monochrome (one colour) surfaces, focusing the viewer’s attention on the slices that broke the taunt skin of the canvas as it was pulled over the stretcher.
A descriptive term for a painting describing a 19th century unsigned and unattributable painting in the manner of American style. Often the work has American canvas and stretchers. Artlex.com, courtesy of Michael Delahunt ...
The old red was visible only on the sides of the stretcher bars, where the blazing light from the skylight had not reached. On the testimony of my own eyes, I must say that what is visible in Houston today is not what Rothko first painted.
For use in painting, a piece of canvas is stretched tightly by stapling or tacking it to a stretcher frame. A painting done on canvas and then cemented to a wall or panel is called marouflage.
A less expensive alternative to linen is heavy cotton duck, though it is less durable, because it's more prone to absorb dampness. For use in painting, a piece of canvas is stretched tightly by stapling or tacking it to a stretcher frame.
(Then linseed oil was usually contaminated with weed seeds that slowed down the drying time of paintings. Contemporary refined linseed oil is pure linseed oil.) Painters can also leave a note on the stretcher bars "ok to varnish in future." ...
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