Category Archives: Skill

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

“Homo sapiens Faber” is a permanent exhibition occupying a 350 m2 section of the basement of the mNACTEC, showing the evolution of science and technology from the first great technological revolution of humanity, the Stone Age revolution, up to early industrialisation, focusing in particular on the Catalan context. Mankind has,…

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

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

Gilding

Gilding is any decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold to solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. Gilding gives an object a gold appearance at a fraction of the cost of creating a solid gold object. A solid gold piece would often…

Gilding

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

Flocking in texture

Flocking is the process of depositing many small fiber particles (called flock) onto a surface. It can also refer to the texture produced by the process, or to any material used primarily for its flocked surface. Flocking of an article can be performed for the purpose of increasing its value…

Flocking in texture

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

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

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

Glass applique

Dalle de verre, is a glass art technique that uses pieces of coloured glass set in a matrix of concrete and epoxy resin or other supporting material. Glass applique, is an applique technique that is frequently used in glass art, whether or not in combination with glass fusing. The method…

Glass applique

Cloisonné

Cloisonnéis an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects. In recent centuries, vitreous enamel has been used, and inlays of cut gemstones, glass and other materials were also used during older periods. The resulting objects can also be called cloisonné. The decoration is formed by first adding compartments (cloisons in French)…

Cloisonné

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