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Public art of Barcelona, Spain

Public art in Barcelona is a designated group of monuments and outdoor sculptures in the city. Barcelona’s cultural legacy is immense. The city has a past closely linked to cultural and artistic production that has served as an inspiration to present-day generations. In addition to the architecture and a network…

Public art of Barcelona, Spain

Modern and contemporary art of Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona’s cultural legacy is immense. The city has a past closely linked to cultural and artistic production that has served as an inspiration to present-day generations. The 20th century was a time of profound social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformations. Catalonia lived through the dramatic events of the Spanish…

Modern and contemporary art of Barcelona, Spain

Hall of Columns, Montemartini power plant

This large hall takes its name from the numerous pillars of reinforced cement which once supported the three boilers in the Boiler Hall on the floor above. Several hoppers are also visible in the ceiling, similar to the truncated-pyramidical funnels, which were filled with the cinders from the coal used…

Hall of Columns, Montemartini power plant

Gradation art

Gradation in art is a visual technique of gradually transitioning from one colour hue to another, or from one shade to another, or one texture to another. Space, distance, atmosphere, volume, and curved or rounded forms are some of the visual effects created with gradation. Artists use a variety of…

Gradation art

Froissage

Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novák in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage is Jiří Kolář. Froissage is a unique art in which the contours…

Froissage

Flipped image

A flipped image or reversed image, is a static or moving image that is generated by a mirror-reversal of an original across a horizontal axis (a flopped image is mirrored across the vertical axis). Many printmaking techniques produce images where the printed copy is reversed from the image made on…

Flipped image

Faux painting

Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone. The term comes from the French word faux, meaning false, as these techniques started as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood…

Faux painting

Art fabrication

Art fabrication describes the process or service of producing large or technically difficult artworks through entities and resources beyond an individual artist’s studio. When artists or designers are incapable or choose not to realize their designs or conceptions, they may enlist the assistance of an art fabrication company. Typically, an…

Art fabrication

Engraving

The engraving is an artistic discipline in which the artist uses different techniques printing, they have in common the draw an image on a rigid surface, called matrix, leaving a trail after staying ink to be transferred by pressure to another surface such as paper or fabric, which allows to…

Engraving

En plein air

En plein air (literally in the open air) is a phrase in French that indicates a pictorial method consisting of painting outdoors to capture the subtle nuances that light generates on every detail. Another objective of this technique is to grasp the true essence of things, since it is an…

En plein air

Droste effect

The Droste effect, known in art as an example of mise en abyme, is the effect of a picture recursively appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. The effect is named for a Dutch brand of cocoa, with an image designed…

Droste effect

Distressing

Distressing (or weathered look) in the decorative arts is the activity of making a piece of furniture or object appear aged and older, giving it a “weathered look”, and there are many methods to produce an appearance of age and wear. Distressing is viewed as a refinishing technique although it…

Distressing

Dhokra

Dhokra or Dokra is an art form created in the “lost wax casting” method. This sort of metal casting has been used in India for over 4,000 years and is still used. The product of dhokra artisans are in great demand in domestic and foreign markets because of primitive simplicity,…

Dhokra

Defamiliarization

Defamiliarization or ostranenie is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar. According to the Russian formalists who coined the term, it is the central concept of art and poetry. The concept has influenced 20th-century…

Defamiliarization

Décollage

Décollage as a visual technique is the method whereby parts of glued-on posters are detached and removed, whereby the underlying layers appear and become part of the new image. Decollage has a strong affinity with dismantling and in this sense forms the reverse of collage. The French word “décollage” translates…

Décollage

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