Artistic techniques

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Mail art

Mail art (also known as postal art and correspondence art) is a populist artistic movement centered on sending small scale…

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Information art

Information art (also data art or informatism) is a type of electronic art that combines computer science with a wealth…

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Glitch art

Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or…

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Fourth dimension in art

New possibilities opened up by the concept of four-dimensional space (and difficulties involved in trying to visualize it) helped inspire…

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Anamorphosis

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point…

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Resist Techniques

A resist, used in many areas of manufacturing and art, is something that is added to parts of an object…

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Impasto

Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick…

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Stippling

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a…

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Screentone

Screentone is a technique for applying textures and shades to drawings, used as an alternative to hatching. In the conventional…

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Hatching

Hatching (hachure in French), In drawing and engraving, as in painting, hatching is the line of a set of straight…

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Grisaille

The grisaille, in painting, is a pictorial technique synonymous with chiaroscuro, or chiaroscuro, as Vasari specifies it. It uses only…

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Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is an oil painting technique, developed during the Renaissance, that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to…

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Contour Drawing

Contour drawing, is an artistic technique used in the field of art in which the artist sketches the contour of…

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Scratchboard

Scratchboard or scraperboard, is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white…

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Appropriation art

Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The…

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