endpin

Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.

2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in New York Times:

(music, lutherie) The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.


spatialize

en-verb

spatialize (third-person singular simple present spatializes, present participle spatializing, simple past and past participle spatialized)

spatializes (present singular third-person)
spatializing (participle present)
spatialized (participle past)
spatialized (past)

On things that change as they move, Mr. Lelong writes, “when the composer spatializes a sound object — whether it is a chord, a motif or a rhythm — the sound object that is set in motion evolves, or to put it another way, the motion stimulated by the compositional process transforms the object, whereas previously works of spatial music merely give an impression of the same object moving unchanged through space.”

2007 July 8, Bernard Holland, “Don’t Let Words Get in the Way”, in New York Times:

(transitive, music, art) To localize sounds in physical space.


Giottesque

en-adj

Giottesque (comparative more Giottesque, superlative most Giottesque)

more Giottesque (comparative)
most Giottesque (superlative)

(art) In the manner of Giotto di Bondone


OOA

en-noun

OOA (countable and uncountable, plural OOAs)

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented analysis.

(computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented application.


OOD

OOD (countable and uncountable, plural OODs)

(uncountable, computing, design) Initialism of object-oriented design.


OMT

OMT (countable and uncountable, plural OMTs)

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Model Template.

(computing, design) Initialism of Object-Modeling Technique.


yokai

From Japanese 妖怪 (yōkai, “ghost, phantom”).

(folklore, Japanese mythology) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.


irrealism

irrealism (usually uncountable, plural irrealisms)

(art) A style that features an estrangement from our generally accepted sense of reality.


superzoom

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This camera, like the Kodak, is also shaped like a mini-S.L.R. and has a stabilized superzoom lens (10X).

2007 December 6, David Pogue, “Looking Beyond Megapixels”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


autoflash

(photography) A camera feature that automatically enables the flash in limited lighting conditions.


antiexpressionist

en-adj

antiexpressionist (comparative more antiexpressionist, superlative most antiexpressionist)

more antiexpressionist (comparative)
most antiexpressionist (superlative)


tonalism

(art) An American artistic style of the nineteenth century, characterised by landscapes with a misty atmosphere and dark, neutral hues.


focimeter

focimeters (plural)
focometer (alternative)

(photography, historical) A device that assists in focusing an object in or before a camera; usually a lens of small magnifying power.


chronophotography

And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography — sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography — for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.

2008 May 21, Melena Ryzik, “Telescope Takes a Long View, to London”, in New York Times:

(photography) An antique photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print.

chronophotographie

photographic technique which captures movement in several frames


softbox

Mr. Tamindzic, a lanky 6 feet 3 inches tall, all legs and elbows, was purposeful and obvious, with a hefty Canon EOS 5D camera in one hand and a LumiQuest softbox flash in the other (to throw up a noirish, crime-scene photographer’s burst of intense light).

2008 May 21, Eric Konigsberg, “A Chronicler of Night-Life Melancholy, Looking for Contradictory Layers”, in New York Times:

(photography) A photographic lighting device consisting of a bulb with reflective back and side walls and a diffusing material at the front.


peep pixels

en-verb

peep pixels (third-person singular simple present peeps pixels, present participle peeping pixels, simple past and past participle peeped pixels)

peeps pixels (present singular third-person)
peeping pixels (participle present)
peeped pixels (participle past)
peeped pixels (past)
pixel peep (alternative)

I'll wager if you peep pixels you'll find plenty of artifacts and other image degradation in images from your P & S.

2006 March 23, Jeff Varszegi, "You forgot sharpness. :)," Digital Photography Review (www.dpreview.com) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

I have then peeped pixels (I admit being guilty by doing so), looked at the sharpness, resolution, barrelling, pincushion, vignetting, you name it.

2006 October 29, Cem Usakligil, “Sigma 12-24 vs EF 10-22”, in www.openphotographyforums.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

You can peep pixels all day long and you won't find any evidence of Photoshopping.

2008 Jan. 29, patrickvr6, "Dope Trucks2," forums.triplezoom.com (retrieved 23 June 2011)

(informal, photography) To scrutinize a magnified digital photograph carefully in order to make a technical assessment of resolution and image quality.


pixel peeper

pixel peepers (plural)
pixel-peeper (alternative)

Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.

2004 March 27, Michael Reichmann, "The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers", The Luminous Landscape (luminous-landscape.com) (retrieved 23 April 2012)

Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens.

2006 July 17, Aravind Krishnaswamy, "Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM review," Aravind's Reviews (www.aravind.ca) (retrieved 23 June 2011)

There is detectable noise at the lower ISOs if you are a pixel peeper.

2007 April 8, “Owners Opinion: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3”, in www.dpreview.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers.

2008 November 24, Stephen Shankland, “DxO sheds light on camera sensor performance”, in CNET.com, retrieved 2011-06-23:

(idiomatic, photography) A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.


ivorytype

(photography, dated) A picture produced by superposing a tinted translucent print upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colours.


arabesqued

en-adj

arabesqued (comparative more arabesqued, superlative most arabesqued)

more arabesqued (comparative)
most arabesqued (superlative)


undertime

en-verb

undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)

undertimes (present singular third-person)
undertiming (participle present)
undertimed (participle past)
undertimed (past)
under-time (alternative)

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(transitive, photography) To underexpose.


wyakin

(folklore) In Native American folklore, a personal guardian spirit in the form of an animal or bird.


Conté

en-noun

Conté (countable and uncountable, plural Contés)

Contés (plural)
Conte (alternative)
conté (alternative)

From the surname of its inventor, French painter and army officer Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755–1805), who created it in 1795.

Conté is an artificial chalk, of which there are various kinds. The square Conté, Number 1, is hard; Number 2, is soft; Number 3, is very soft. […] Dutch Chalk is a new kind, in some respects equal to the best Contés, and sold at a moderate price.

1849, H[enry] O’Neill, “Materials”, in A Guide to Pictorial Art: How to Use the Black Lead Pencil, Chalks, and Water Colours; […], 4th edition, London: George Rowney, & Co., […], →OCLC, part I, 2nd division (Light and Shade), page 10:

A woman and a girl seated on chairs in a park. Conté crayon.

1992, Carol Clark, “Catalogue”, in Robert P. O’Neill, editor, American Drawings and Watercolors (The Robert Lehman Collection; VIII), New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

Conté sticks and pencils are made of dry pigments mixed with wax or clay and compressed into square sticks or thin rods that can be held in a metal or wooden holder or sheath. Conté typically comes in varieties of whites, grays, browns, and blacks and in a range of densities from soft to hard; the harder forms have more binder or wax and the softer less.

2017, Al[bert F.] Gury, “Essential Drawing Materials”, in Foundations of Drawing: A Practical Guide to Art History, Tools, Techniques, and Styles, New York, N.Y.: Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 48:

(art) A drawing medium, usually square in cross-section, composed of compressed powdered charcoal or graphite mixed with a clay or wax base.

Bathers at Asnières
Georges Seurat
Nicolas-Jacques Conté


telephoto lens

telephoto lens (plural telephoto lenses)

(photography) A lens having a long focal length which produces a magnified view of distant objects.

(photography) A lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects and which is sufficiently compact to have a physical length shorter than its focal length (as distinct from a long-focus lens).


long lens

(photography, informal) A telephoto lens.


normal lens

(photography) A lens which produces an image similar in detail and angular perspective to the view produced by the human eye, as distinct from a wide-angle lens or a telephoto lens.


pinhole camera

Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph.

1981 April 12, Bruce Habegger, “Pinhole cameras can give surprising results”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-03:

There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.

2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:

(photography) A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.

lyukkamera

a simple lensless device for producing a photographic image


SLD

single lens digital
single lens digital#English

(photography) Initialism of single lens digital.


dope sheet

dope sheets (plural)
dopesheet (alternative)
dope-sheet (alternative)

The "field number" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's "dope" sheet.

1967 August 4, “Stored at Quantico: Fifty Years of Filmed History”, in Free Lance-Star, USA, retrieved 2011-08-07, page 5:

Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘dope sheet’ describing each shot they had taken.

1975, Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, volumes 12-13, page 16:

The dope sheet for the photographs, which may have been written some time later reads: "Accidentally shot by an Englishman while hunting in Africa."

2010, Neil Parsons, Alexander McCall Smith, Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman, →ISBN, page 91:

(idiomatic, photography) A summary of the content and technical information for a set of photographs.


diamond plate

(design) A type of lightweight metal stock with a regular pattern of raised diamonds or lines (anti-slip surfacing).


linework

Dalrymple’s linework, tremulous and twitchy, and Paul Hornschemeier’s muted colors don’t look much like any other superhero comics; there’s a sense of human frailty to their characters that inverts the muscles-and-action tradition.

2009 March 1, Douglas Wolk, “The First Action Heroes”, in New York Times:


multiple exposure

multiple exposure (plural multiple exposures)

multiple exposures (plural)
multiple-exposure (alternative)

ECLIPSE IN NEW YORK — this multiple exposure shows stages of the solar eclipse, starting at top left, as seen in New York City Monday afternoon.

1972 July 11, "Eclipse in New York (photo caption)," Victoria Advocate (Texas, USA), p. 1 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2011)

[W]ith a film camera . . . to take a good multiple exposure . . . your camera needed to have a special control that prevented the film from advancing while you captured each frame in the series. . . . These days, creating a multiple exposure digitally is a snap.

2008 February 18, Dave Johnson, “How to Make Multiple Exposures”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light more than one time, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter repeatedly, thereby generating a picture consisting of superimposed images.

Mr. Telberg-von-Teleheim's method is that of multiple exposure, either in the camera when taking the picture, or in the enlarger when making the print.

1948 September 26, Jacob Deschin, “Two Kinds of Work: Mental ‘Views’ Contrasted With Pictures of Fact”, in New York Times, page X13:

(photography) The process of producing such a photograph.


double exposure

double exposure (plural double exposures)

double exposures (plural)
double-exposure (alternative)

"The secret of all successful double-exposure photography may be expressed in one word—exactitude," said Georges Benoit, cameraman for Richard Walton Tully in The Masquerader.

1922 April 9, “Cameraman Talks Double Exposure”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2011-08-11, page III-38:

A double exposure from the 1960's seems to make explicit some of the implications of Cunningham's own early plant studies. In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.

1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-08-11:

(photography) A photograph produced by exposing film or some other photosensitive surface to focused light twice, usually by opening and closing a camera shutter two times, thereby generating a picture consisting of two superimposed images.

I've used double exposures to capture ghosts on film, to photograph two of me playing ping pong, and to capture a time-lapse shot of a birthday cake new and half-eaten in the same frame.

2004 April 13, Dave Johnson, “Digital Focus: Double-Exposure Tricks”, in PC World, retrieved 2011-08-11:


neomodern

en-adj

neomodern (comparative more neomodern, superlative most neomodern)

more neomodern (comparative)
most neomodern (superlative)

Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod. Freeman Thomas and J Mays, now both with Ford, worked under Mr. Warkuss.

2009 April 12, Phil Patton, “At VW, the Italian Accent Gets Stronger”, in New York Times:

(art, architecture) Of or pertaining to a "new simplicity" in reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism.

néomoderne

of or pertaining to a "new simplicity" in reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism


postmedium

Today many aspects of craft have been absorbed — minus the reverence — by contemporary art, now considered in its postmedium phase.

2009 April 18, Roberta Smith, “Why Craft Never Was a Four-Letter Word”, in New York Times:

(art) In a time when choice of medium no longer matters.


fisheye lens

fisheye lenses (plural)
fish-eye lens (alternative)

(photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.

objectiu ull de peix

wide-angle lens with extremely wide field of view


anticlassical

anticlassical (comparative more anticlassical, superlative most anticlassical)

more anticlassical (comparative)
most anticlassical (superlative)

Nothing in the decorative scheme derives from classical architecture — indeed it could be said to be anticlassical, so thoroughly does it bypass traditional design.

2009 May 3, Christopher Gray, “Fidel Castro Slept Here”, in New York Times:

(art) Opposing or rejecting what is classical.


antivampire

antivampire (comparative more antivampire, superlative most antivampire)

more antivampire (comparative)
most antivampire (superlative)

This is a revealing passage, for van Helsing is the stern realist, the guiding hand directing the antivampire confederacy.

1996, Howard L. Malchow, Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain, page 146:

The Oscar, Time, and Murrow formed a magical antivampire crucifix that would do more than protect Mr. S from the bloodsuckers of Hollywood; this figurative talisman would also convert the naysayers into idolators.

2003, George Jacobs, William Stadiem, Mr. S: my life with Frank Sinatra, page 137:

(folklore, fantasy) Opposing or countering vampires.


lifecast

On rap Web sites, which abhor a vacuum, seemingly every move he’s made in recent months has been captured and archived in what has amounted to, essentially, a Drake lifecast: video footage and photographs of concerts, audio clips of radio interviews, endless personal and professional gossip and, oh, new songs to go with the two, “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl,” that have already become hits, before this Toronto rapper has even signed a recording contract.

2009 May 28, Jon Caramanica, “A Rapper With Celebrity but No Label”, in New York Times:

When both lifecasts are completed, we will put the two molds together and reinforce the seam with plaster before we fill the mold[…]

2013, Todd Debreceni, Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen:

(art) A three-dimensional copy of a living human body.


ultrazoom

The ultrazoom species of point-and-shoot digital camera is identified solely by its large optical zoom.

2009 June 25, John Biggs, “Little Cameras With Big Eyes”, in New York Times:

(photography) A very high-magnification zoom feature.


pochade

In despair, he finally painted a pochade of people leaving the church of Saint-François, in the village of the same name.

2004, David Karel, André Biéler: at the Crossroads of Canadian Painting, page 115:

This painting was very small, not even a study but a pochade — no more than a first idea jotted down in paint.

2008, Martin Gayford, The Yellow House, page 116:


overstand

From Middle English overstonden, from Old English oferstandan (“to stand over”), equivalent to over- + stand. Cognate with Dutch overstaan (“to stand over”), German überstehen (“to stand through, survive”).

cog

(lutherie) The measurement between the top plate and the fingerboard where the neck meets the body of the instrument.


Boston Mess

(juggling) A pattern which consists of throwing each prop straight up whilst crossing and uncrossing one's arms.


Mike's Mess

(juggling) A pattern, usually done with three balls, which consists of throwing and catching each prop under one's non-throwing arm.


lens cap

(photography) The detachable cap that protects the camera lens when the camera is not in use.


cross-shot

(photography) A technique for filming interactions between two people in which the camera looks alternately at one or the other person, with the focus on the person farthest from the camera.


casualism

en-noun

casualism (countable and uncountable, plural casualisms)

(art) An art movement characterized by an unpolished esthetic, incorporating such elements as rough or torn edges, exposed staples, etc.


monotonist

If read with propriety, it will soon correct the monotonist of that sameness of tone, which so disgusts in most common readers, and with which no person can ever reasonably expect to give pleasure to those who are so unfortunate as to be his hearers ,

1817, Daniel Staniford, The Art of Reading, page 211:

I could chide thee now As vexed Apollo some monotonist That will but finger in one mode alone, And learn no other.

1885, John Todhunter, Helena in Troas, page 73:

Milton's management of his angels and evils proves as much as anything in the poem the versatility of his genious, the delicacy of his discrimination of character, that Shakespearean quality in him which has been so much over-looked. […] No mere monotonist could have succeeded in it .

1903, Testimonies and Criticisms Relating to the Life and Works of John Milton, page 189:

In these first lyrics he disclosed the eye of monotonist and etcher for the beauty of Nature.

2022, John Daniel Logan, Donald G. French, Highways of Canadian Literature:

(art) One whose work is monochromatic or characterized by sameness.


melotype

(photography) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates.


monochromy

monochromy (countable and uncountable, plural monochromies)

(art) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome (shades of the same color).


behinder

(metalworking) A person employed to take folded metal sheets from the doubler and pass them back to the rollerman.


disoccupation

I posit the aethetic nature of the Statue as a purely spatial organism, to be exact, the active disoccupation of the Statue through the fusion of lightweight or unimposing formal elements.

1957, Jorge Oteiza, Experimental Proposal 1956-1957:

In cultural terms this was reflected in ETA's appreciation of Baque sculptor Jorge Oteiza's artistic theory of the disoccupation of space.

1999, William A. Douglass, Basque Politics and Nationalism on the Eve of the Millennium, page 107:

the mask is what in "Experimental Proposition" is identified as the funerary stele, the disoccupation of space that sets the man in relation to the beyond.

2016, Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea, “From Pre-Columbian Masks to the Basque Cromlech: The Art of Unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza”, in Andrew Reynolds, Bonnie Roos, editor, Behind the Masks of Modernism, page 105:

(art) The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.


Raphaelism

(art) The principles, or style of painting introduced by the Italian painter Raphael


single curve

(metalworking, manufacturing) A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by bending alone, without stretching or compression.


compound curve

(metalworking, manufacturing) A three-dimensional shape into which a thin flat sheet of material, e.g. metal, can be formed by operations that must include stretching and/or compression, in addition to bending.


foreshot

It was obviously an Aspen Valley resident because she recognised the stabling in the background, but the tall dark bay horse in the foreshot didn't look familiar.

2013, Hannah Hooton, Giving Chase, →ISBN, page 122:

(photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.


backshot

If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!

1970, Albert Govoni, A Boy Named Cash, page 15:

Backshot of power station fully working.

1978, Alan Sillitoe, Three Plays, page 159:

Set in the 1930s in rural Nova Scotia, the film opens, in colour, with a backshot of the filmmaker — all that is evident are her dreads — typing its title and the details of its setting into a laptop computer.

1999, Nurjehan Aziz, Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism, →ISBN, page 111:

(photography and cinematography) A shot taken from behind the subject.


photosculpture

photosculpture (countable and uncountable, plural photosculptures)

(art) A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made quickly.


intermural

From Latin intermūrālis. By surface analysis, inter- + mural.

Balakian continues the theological metaphor in defining the artwork itself as "sacred," "a system of symbolization of which the correspondences are strictly intramural or self-referential to start and become intermural only when other artists accept the signal-making character of the work."

2010, Betty Jean Craige, Relativism in the Arts, page 12:

Intermural Art is thus an art venturing beyond these previous designations, venturing beyond and between the gaps in these practices. It is an art exploring the space between the street and the studio, between Graffiti and the gallery. It is an art exploring the vibrancy of the threshold, the space in between the walls.

2016, Konstantinos Avramidis, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Graffiti and Street Art, page 112:

What is key to intermural art is thus its liminal position between inside and out.

2020, Rafael Schacter, “Curating the intermural: graffiti in the museum 2008-18”, in Roger Sansi, editor, The Anthropologist as Curator, page 168:

(art) Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.


ringhead

In the figure only the top and bottom cylinder heads have been replaced by ringheads, with the side heads remaining conventional so that rounded corners can be produced on the planed planks.

1974, Richard A. Horn, Morphology of Wood Pulp Fiber from Softwoods and Influence on Paper Strength, page 3:

Variables were examined: Moisture content, angle of knives in ringhead, angle of cutting edge, position of ringhead in relation to centerline of piece being planed, and cutting speed.

1975, Bruce G. Heebink, Producing Flakes for Structural Particleboard on a Ringhead Planer:

(woodworking) A cutting tool or assembly that consists of a circular head which houses multiple cutting knives or blades arranged in a ring formation.


amasthenic

(photography) Uniting the rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens does.


figurist

(art) An artist who produces figures (representations of people, animals, etc.).


demitone

Dr. van Monckhoven, of Ghent, displays several remarkable enlargements printed in carbon, all distinguished by delicacy of demitone; and Mr. Edward Viles heads the scientific list with microscopi enlargments to the extent of two hundred diameters.

1876, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 532:

In the distance is a pale glint of light, but otherwise this painting is in a demitone of grey .

1877, S. N. C, “The Tenth New York Water-Colour Exhibition”, in The Art Journal, volume 3, page 96:

One also can bring in demitones by means of breadcrumbs. Perhaps only the very deepest shadows can't be done very well with it, but in many cases one can use lithographic crayon then, which is also very rich in tone.

1883 March 6, Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh:

Illustrated by three plates, viz., the plan, the longitudinal and the transverse sections—and three photographs shoing the lift in operaton—the plunger, the trough and the basin—and the machinery (demitone plates).

1893, The World's Columbian Exposition, page 4:

(art) A color that is only partly saturated.


opalotype

(historical, photography) A photograph taken on opalescent glass.


demitint

Borrowed from French demi-teinte, or demi- + tint.

(art) That part of a painting, engraving, etc. which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

(art) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition.


rosehead

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The rosehead bit has a series of cutters, nine in all, that radiate from the centre point.

1984, P. F. Lye, Woodwork Theory, page 67:

Usually included is a rose bit (Fig. 13.20) or the rosehead countersink (Fig. 13.21).

2006, Frank Saxon, Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service, page 438:

A rosehead bit will also countersink brass, if it is necessary to deal with screw holes in hinges or other metal fittings; but there are flat countersinking bits for metal that are made to fit braces.

2007, Percy Blandford, The Woodworker's Bible: A Complete Guide to Woodworking:

(woodworking) A conical drillbit that has radiating blades.


immersionist

(art) One who practices ecosocial immersion as innovated by the Brooklyn Immersionists.


immersionism

(art) Ecosocial immersion as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.


muriated

(photography) Prepared with silver chloride through the agency of common salt.


bambocciade

From Italian bambocciata, from Bamboccio (“a nickname of Pieter van Laer, a Dutch genre painter; properly, a child, simpleton, puppet”), from bamboccio (“chubby child”).

(art) A bambocciante painting, depicting a scene from lower-class or rustic life.


bromize

en-verb

bromize (third-person singular simple present bromizes, present participle bromizing, simple past and past participle bromized)

bromizes (present singular third-person)
bromizing (participle present)
bromized (participle past)
bromized (past)

to bromize a silvered plate

bromized colloidon

(photography, archaic, transitive) To prepare or treat with bromine, especially in photography.


metagraphy

en-noun

metagraphy (countable and uncountable, plural metagraphies)

The rich and free merging of visual arts and literature envisioned by Isou in 1949-1950 under the name of "metagraphy" appeared fertile to many more people than the one proposed earlier with Lettrist painting, left almost unnoticed.

1983, Stephen C. Foster, Lettrisme: into the present, page 29:

For all their energised glory, the graphic scores of the Cageans (like the metagraphies of the Lettrists, and thus exactly like pre-Futurist scores) demanded a priestcraft to ensure their authentic interpretation.

2002, Rob Young, Undercurrents: the hidden wiring of modern music, page 191:

In 1950 the Letterist, Maurice Lemaltre, had published Riff-raff, a ten-page "metagraphy," which included a sequence that zoomed from the solar system through a drawing of the earth to maps of Europe, France, and Paris, and Finally one of Saint Germain de Prés.

2006, Cartographic Perspectives: Bulletin of the North American Cartographic Information Society:

[…] in an attempt to elaborate a sort of hypergraphy, or super-writing, produced to go beyond the limits of the preceding metagraphy, or post-writing.

2008, Adriano Spatola, Toward Total Poetry, page 58:

(art, countable) metagraphics; hypergraphy


intermedial

From inter- + medial: compare Latin intermedius.

Dr. Katia Arfara received her PhD in Art History from Paris I in 2006 with a focus on the intermedial relations between visual and performing arts since the 1960s.

2010, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, Mapping Intermediality in Performance, page 283:


finary

(archaic, ironworking) Alternative form of finery


aftercast

However, not marking a reproduction or an aftercast "Reproduction" in a visible and indelible manner does constitute an infringement of copyright.

2007, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Hélène Marraud, Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin, page 72:

Consequently, the aftercast in lead must here have been made from the model.

2012, J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, page vii:

Note that an aftercast is always an indirect cast, while two directly cast bronzes can be only variants.

2016, David A. Scott, Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery, page 430:

Another group that may contain modern aftercasts are figural units composed of two confronting winged semi-human creatures grasping with one hand stylized trees; animals or birds are set in a triad between them; the scene probably depicts a ritual.

2022, Muscarella, The Lie Became Great, page 113:


cynanthropy

Coined based on Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man; human”).

(anthropology, folklore) A shape-shifting ability between human and canine forms.


isocephalism

From Ancient Greek, meaning "like-headed". See iso- + cephalon.

(art) A peculiarity in the design of bas relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the characters are seated, standing, or mounted.


vedutista

vedutista (plural vedutistas or vedutisti)

vedutistas (plural)
vedutisti (plural)
vedutist (alternative)
vedutiste (alternative)


postsymbolic

(art) Beyond traditional symbolic communications or representations.


bromoil

bromoil (countable and uncountable, plural bromoils)

(photography) An early photographic process that starts with a normally developed print exposed onto a silver-bromide paper that is then chemically bleached, hardened, and fixed.


Netherlandic

en-adj

Netherlandic (comparative more Netherlandic, superlative most Netherlandic)

more Netherlandic (comparative)
most Netherlandic (superlative)

From Netherland(s) + -ic. Compare Netherlandish, which is used mainly in the context of art and culture.

(chiefly art, linguistics, history) Dutch, of the Netherlands or the Dutch language


ecce homo

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ecce homo (“behold the man!”). See John xix. 5 in the Bible.

ubor

(art) A picture representing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, before his crucifixion.


photoelectrotype

(dated, photography) An electrotype plate formed in a mould made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.


toreutic

From Ancient Greek τορευτικός (toreutikós, “belonging to work in relief”), from τορεύω (toreúō), from τορός (torós, “piercing”).


woolder

(ropemaking) One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it.


phantascope

(historial, photography) An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope and illustrating the same principle.


photoglyphy

From photo- + Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”) + -y.

(historical, photography) A kind of engraving caused by the action of light, used in the mid 19th century


lay in

en-verb

lay in (third-person singular simple present lays in, present participle laying in, simple past and past participle laid in)

lays in (present singular third-person)
laying in (participle present)
laid in (participle past)
laid in (past)

She uses a round brush to lay in the background.

The whole [mountain] is first laid in with a very delicate and masterly grey, right in tone, agreeable in colour, quite unobjectionable for a beginning. But how is this made into rock?

1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 3, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section IV (Of Truth of Earth), § 4, page 287:

(transitive, art) To add (something) to a painting, especially directly onto the blank canvas in the early stages of the work.


stakehead

(ropemaking) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.


demi-rilievo

(art) Half relief; sculpture in relief, whose figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.


pietra dura

A Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

(art) A decorative art, the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images.


tambaran

tambarans (plural)
tambaram (alternative)
tamberan (alternative)

(folklore) A demon or spirit, among certain peoples of Papua New Guinea.


pegbox

(music, lutherie) The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs.


doryphoros

Latin, from Ancient Greek, literally "spear-bearing".

(historical or art) A spear-bearing soldier (nowadays, a statue of a man holding a spear, or appearing to do so).


coulage

en-noun

coulage (countable and uncountable, plural coulages)

(art) A form of surrealist sculpture made by pouring a molten material into cold water.


fumage

From Old French fumage, fumaige, from Latin fumus (“smoke”).

2013, Whitney Sherman, Playing with Sketches, The Quarto Group (Rockport Publishers), page 32,
Fumage is not a frequently used drawing technique, but when used it can produce a subtle and mysterious effect. One notable twentieth-century fumage artist was banker Hugh Parker Guiler, spouse of diarist Anaïs Nin.

(art) A surrealist art technique, devised by Wolfgang Paalen, in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas.


waterwork

waterwork (countable and uncountable, plural waterworks)

/ˈwɔːtəˌwəːk/

From Late Middle English [Term?], analysable as water + work.

(countable, art) A textile fabric used like tapestry.

[F]or thy wals a pretty ſleight drollery, or the ſtorie of the prodigal, or the Iarman hunting in waterworke, is worth a thouſand of theſe bed-hangers, and theſe flie bitten tapeſtrie, let it be x. ♇ [i.e., ten pounds] if thou canſt: [...]

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(uncountable, art) A style of painting executed in distemper or size, on canvas or a wall, intended to resemble a tapestry; (countable) such a painting.


tilt-shift

(photography, chiefly attributive) The use of camera movements to simulate a miniature scene in the resulting photograph.


T-stop

(photography) A transmission stop; an alternative to an f-stop.


hillman

A farmer on whose ground there was a little hill, resolved not to let it lie idle, and began at one end to plough it up. The hill-man, who lived in it, came to him and asked him how he dared to plough on the roof of his house.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 186:

(folklore) A supernatural being, such as a dwarf, that lives beneath a hill.


vatman

(papermaking) The employee responsible for gathering pulp from the vat on the mould in papermaking.


waney

(woodworking) A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring.


giallolino

/ˌdʒæləˈliːnəʊ/

From Italian giallo (“yellow”), probably from Old High German gelo, German gelb, akin to English yellow.

(art, obsolete) The yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.


tauroctony

From Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ταυροκτόνος (tauroktónos), from ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + κτόνος (któnos, “killing”).

lbor

In any event, if, as I am arguing, the tauroctony represents the astronomical situation which obtained during the epoch in which the spring equinox was in Taurus, the fact that the summer solstice was in Leo during that epoch provides a convincing explanation for the occasional presence of the figure of a lion in the tauroctony.

1991, David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, Oxford University Press, page 54:

The central icon, ever present in Mithras temples throughout the Roman Empire, is the tauroctony, or bull-slaying.

2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras, Inner Traditions, page 20:

Tauroctonies featuring Mithras' regular clothes but with a crown instead of a cap would belong to a further cluster. A tauroctony would then also be assigned to other clusters for its patterns of features relating to the torchbearers, to the animals, and so on.

2022, Kevin Stoba, “6: A network analysis of the Mithraic tauroctony”, in Anna Collar, editor, Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), unnumbered page:

(Mithraism, historical, art) A depiction (typically in relief or sculpture) of Mithras killing a bull; associated with the practice of Mithraism (as a cult) in the Roman Empire.

tauroctonie

depiction of the killing of a bull by Mithras


scotograph

"Scotograph" is likely to stick as the popular term for portraits taken by the Röntgen process. It means "shade picture," and its analogy with photograph, which is a "light picture," is sufficiently manifest to help on its vogue.

You will be able to see radiographs, or scotographs, — referring to darkness and shadow ; you will see that shadowgraphs indicate to you any deformity of the roots of the teeth, or any teeth that have not come into position in the arch, or any osseous deformity which may take place in the jaw […]

1896, The International Dental Journal, volume 17, page 532:

(photography, obsolete, rare) An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate.


impaste

en-verb

impaste (third-person singular simple present impastes, present participle impasting, simple past and past participle impasted)

impastes (present singular third-person)
impasting (participle present)
impasted (participle past)
impasted (past)

From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

(art) To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.


email ombrant

(art) The art or process of flooding transparent coloured glaze over designs stamped or moulded on earthenware or porcelain


ternion

From Latin ternio, from terni (“three each”). See tern (adjective).

(bookbinding) A section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages.


cavo-rilievo

/ˌkɑːvəʊ ɹɪlˈjeɪvəʊ/

From Italian cavo rilievo (literally “hollow relief”).

bor

(art) Sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the surrounding surface.


tetramorph

From Ancient Greek τετράμορφος (tetrámorphos). By surface analysis, tetra- + -morph.

der

(art) The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure or a group of four figures.


German wheel

First is the German Wheel, two metal hoops six feet in circumference, joined at six points. Inside, gymnast Chris Lashua rolls, turns and spins through a series of gravity-defying somersaults and acrobatics.

1997 February, “Big Top For Your Head”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 36:

(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars.

roue allemande

An apparatus made of two large rings joined by a set of parallel bars.


nacré

nacré ware

(art) Having an iridescence like that of nacre, or mother-of-pearl.


contract programming

design by contract
design by contract#English

(software, design) Synonym of design by contract


DbC

Design by Contract
design by contract#English

(software, design) Initialism of Design by Contract.


composite reuse principle

(software, design) a technique by which classes may achieve polymorphic behavior and code reuse by containing other classes that implement the desired functionality instead using inheritance.


composition over inheritance

composite reuse principle
composite reuse principle#English

(software, design) Synonym of composite reuse principle


cold roll

en-verb

cold roll (third-person singular simple present cold rolls, present participle cold rolling, simple past and past participle cold rolled)

cold rolls (present singular third-person)
cold rolling (participle present)
cold rolled (participle past)
cold rolled (past)

(metalworking) To roll metal in a temperature that is below its recrystallization point.

kylmävalssata

to process metal by rolling in a low temperature


mezzo-rilievo

en-noun

mezzo-rilievo (countable and uncountable, plural mezzo-rilievos)

(art) half-relief; a middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief


accessory shoe

(photography) A clip or track on a camera that allows for accessories to be attached.

lisävarustekenkä

clip or track on a camera for accessories


sea monk

[…] three sea monks being found in 1530, 1546 and 1549. In fact the first sea monk was not a sea monk at all, having been found in the Rhine. The second one was found near Copenhagen with a black head and the clothes of a monk and the final one was found near Hafnia (Copenhagen), tonsured like a monk. […] Nonetheless walruses remain a possible explanation for the occurence of sea monks prior to 1546.

2005, Steenstrupia, volume 29, pages 40-45:

Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...

2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition:

(folklore) A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.


subjectile

(art) A substrate, material, or support upon which a painting or engraving is created.


soufflage

(art) The surrealist technique of blowing liquid paint to inspire or reveal an image.


overcolour

overcolours (plural)
overcolor (alternative)

(art) Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect


POLA

principle of least astonishment
principle of least astonishment#English

(software, design) Initialism of principle of least astonishment.


principle of least astonishment

(software, user interface, design) A principle that the design should match the user's experience, expectations, and mental models.


mixel

(art) In pixel art, a pixel of incoherent or inconsistent size when compared to the rest of the artwork as a whole.


gobo

Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

suffix

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

(film, photography, television) A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare.

filtro

screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare


negative space

en-noun

negative space (countable and uncountable, plural negative spaces)

(art) The space around and between the subjects of an image.


cross-process

en-verb

cross-process (third-person singular simple present cross-processes, present participle cross-processing, simple past and past participle cross-processed)

cross-processes (present singular third-person)
cross-processing (participle present)
cross-processed (participle past)
cross-processed (past)

(photography) To process film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film.


kerfing

Do you prefer bent solid linings or kerfings in your guitar? If kerfings, would you like regular or reversed kerfing?

(music, chiefly lutherie) A thin strip of wood kerfed to allow easy bending and then glued inside the body of a string instrument along the rim between its two abutting sides to reinforce the joint.


finger joint

(construction, woodworking) A joint, usually glued, in which multiple integral protrusions are fit into mating slots, used especially for manufacturing long moldings.

queue droite

(woodworking) a joint with multiple protrusions and slots


tableau vivant

en-noun

tableau vivant (plural tableaux vivants)

Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”).

bor

Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982).

2013, Rob Stone, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, A Companion to Luis Buñuel, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(art) A tableau (group scene resembling a painting).


buhl work

The inlaid plates of brass and rosewood, called buhl work, which ornament our furniture, are, in some instances, formed by punching; but in this case, both the parts cut out, and those which remain, are in many cases employed.

1835, Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 4th edition, page 96:

(woodworking) Carved pieces of brass or other material for inlay in furniture and other woodwork.


buhlwork

(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work


en creux

(engraving) In intaglio; by sinking or hollowing out the design.


proxy pattern

structural design pattern
structural pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern that is implemented as a class functioning as an interface for a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource that is expensive or impossible to duplicate.


bridge pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern that decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.


composite pattern

en-noun

composite pattern (plural composite patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern where a group of objects are to be treated in the same way as a single instance of an object.


decorator pattern

decorator pattern (plural decorator patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically.


front controller pattern

front controller pattern (plural front controller patterns)

(software, design) A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that provides a centralized entry point for handling requests and is an extension to the model-view-controller design pattern.


module pattern

(software, design) A structural design pattern to implement the concept of software modules (modular programming) in a programming language that lacks support for them.


MDP

MDP (countable and uncountable, plural MDPs)

messaging pattern
messaging pattern#English

(software, design) Initialism of messaging pattern.


messaging pattern

messaging pattern (plural messaging patterns)

architectural pattern
architectural pattern

(software, design) A network-oriented architectural pattern that describes how two different parts of a message pass system connect and communicate with each other.


strategy pattern

strategy pattern (plural strategy patterns)

creational design pattern
creational pattern

(software, design) A creational design pattern where algorithms can be selected at runtime.


visitor pattern

visitor pattern (plural visitor patterns)

behavioural design pattern
behavioural pattern

(software, design) A behavioural design pattern that separates an algorithm from an object structure on which it operates.


state pattern

(software, design) A behavioural design pattern similar to the strategy pattern that is used to represent the state of an object.


cold-shut

(metalworking) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; said of a forging or casting.


demirelief

Borrowed from French demi-relief, demi- + relief.


pattern language

pattern language (plural pattern languages)

(architecture, design, software) A structured method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise.


slagger

Miravich closes his eyes and remembers his days as a slagger. When a mold is full, a slagger moves in with his tool, a technological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four. He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.

2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255:


actionist

The most radical of all 1960s performers, the Viennese Actionists explored a broad spectrum of transgressions up until the end of the 1960s: sodomy, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, anthropophagy, self-mutilation, and animal sacrifices.

2022, Sascha Bru […] , editors, Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

(art, sometimes capitalized) One taking part in the actionism movement.


Thuluth

(art, chiefly calligraphy) An Arabic script style.


oversharpen

en-verb

oversharpen (third-person singular simple present oversharpens, present participle oversharpening, simple past and past participle oversharpened)

oversharpens (present singular third-person)
oversharpening (participle present)
oversharpened (participle past)
oversharpened (past)

(transitive, photography) To sharpen too much.


ruinism

At that time, "ruinism" actually became an artistic category, in demonstration of the depth of sentiment the ancient glories excited in the viewer's soul.

1991, Armando Ravaglioli, Rome, a Journey of Dreams, →ISBN:

Already in the early 1960s, however, in the wake of John Cage's aleatoric compositions, some traces of 'ruinism' could be found, for instance, in Walter De Maria's radical proposal of May 1960 for an Art Yard, published in La Monte Young's An Anthology.

2011, Frederik Le Roy, Tickle Your Catastrophe!, →ISBN, page 34:

This is the inexplicable, says the Northern European: a Bauhaus of ruins. But there is no architecture in these rooms lacking arche. And no complacency for ruinism, a general lack of complacency.

2012, Jean-François Lyotard, Herman Parret, Miscellaneous Texts, →ISBN, page 219:

The growth of tourism and the increase in the number of “picturesque voyages” were likewise crucial factors, since “ruinism,” a style first manifested in the veduta (view), was particularly popular among travelers.

2013, Michel Delon, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 1160:

(art) An enthusiasm for appreciating ruins or sites of destruction.


neverfade

2 beautiful doubleweight gloss enlargements. 8 guaranteed neverfade prints each roll 25c.

1940 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 74, number 5, page 626:

(photography, printing, dated) Never fading; permanent.


doubleweight

To reproduce right-of-way, speed-restriction, yard-limit, and other signs, photograph the original signs, and make prints, scale size, on doubleweight paper.

1958 December, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 12, page 8:

(photography, printing) Being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.


message-driven architecture

en-noun

message-driven architecture (plural message-driven architectures)

Event-Driven Architecture
event-driven architecture#English

(software, design) Synonym of Event-Driven Architecture


model-driven architecture

model-driven architecture (plural model-driven architectures)

(software, design) A software design approach for the development of software systems that provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications expressed as models.


long Tom

Digging around second-hand shops you may come across an old newspaper or picture agency 'Long Tom' lens.

1976, David Hodgson, All about action photography, page 43:

One of the last 'Long Toms' produced for Fleet Street, it was used by a Daily Mirror photographer on Coronation Day, 2 June 1953.

1983, The Photographic Collector, volumes 4-5, page 87:

(photography) A high-powered lens for long-distance filming or photography.


antihistoricism

antihistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural antihistoricisms)

(philosophy, art) Any aesthetic, such as futurism in architecture, that rejects traditions and historicism.

anti-historicismo

any aesthetic that rejects traditions and historicism


Rusto

Rusto is the kind of paint that many writers steal and steal caps for and go bombing.

Rusto is thick, so for certain things it is good, like metal.

2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti, page 112:


antiform

Dada forms and antiforms were used as a means of reacting against Abstract Expressionism and abstract art generally[…]

1983, Edith Kurzweil, William Phillips, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader, page 236:

(art) A form that defies the usual conventions of artistic forms.

antiforma

a form that defies the usual conventions of artistic forms


slipstitch

(crocheting) a stitch used to connect different parts of a work, achieved by pulling the thread through two non-adjacent loops


crop out

en-verb

crop out (third-person singular simple present crops out, present participle cropping out, simple past and past participle cropped out)

crops out (present singular third-person)
cropping out (participle present)
cropped out (participle past)
cropped out (past)

In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.

2009 September 17, David Hume Kennerly, “Essay: Chop and Crop”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-09:

(transitive, photography) To adjust the borders of an image in a way that would remove someone or something from it or make it fit a certain space.


abstract expressionist

en-noun

abstract expressionist (plural abstract expressionists)

Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism

(art) An artist who works within the genre of Abstract Expressionism.


sound post

sound posts (plural)
soundpost (alternative)
sound-post (alternative)

(lutherie) A wooden rod located inside the body of a violin-family instrument, close to the treble-side bridge foot.


academy board

(art) A heavy card used for oil painting.


archetier

Yielding inexpensive means whereby his preternatural gifts could be awakened, puncheon strips were later put aside for that most desirable of all bow woods—pernambuco. It was about 1775 that fate ordained young Tourte to see what other archetiers had done, and then proceed to do it better.

1965, Music Journal - Volume 23, page 45:

Nowadays, the craft of the 'archetier', or bow maker, is entirely separated from that of the 'luthier', or instrument maker.

1999, Robin Stowell, The Cambridge Companion to the Cello, →ISBN, page 28:

The following are photographs of a few of the many ancient bows made by the contemporary master archetier Eitan Hoffer who operates a shop in Israel.

2015, Michael J. Pagliaro, The String Instrument Owner's Handbook, →ISBN, page 23:

(lutherie) One who builds, repairs, and restores the bows of instruments in the violin family.


puntel

(glassblowing) Archaic form of punty (“rod used in glassblowing”).


contact print

(photography) A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.


single-lens reflex

From single + lens (contrasted against a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted.

(photography) Denoting or relating to a type of camera which allows the photographer to view the subject through the same lens that will be used to take a photograph, usually by incorporating a moving mirror and prism.


single-lens reflex

single-lens reflex (plural single-lens reflexes)

single-lens reflexes (plural)
single lens reflex (alternative)

single-lens reflex camera
single-lens reflex camera#English

(photography) Abbreviation of single-lens reflex camera.

單反 /单反

a camera allowing one to view through the same lens used to take a photograph


antiretinal

(art) Having some philosophical or political content, rather than merely being designed to please the eye.


sgraffitoing

Sgraffitoing is probably as popular as any method of surface texturing.

1955, Craft Horizons, volumes 15–16, New York, N.Y.: American Craft Council, →ISSN, page 27:

(art) The act or process of creating a sgraffito design.


sgraffitoed

en-adj

sgraffitoed (comparative more sgraffitoed, superlative most sgraffitoed)

more sgraffitoed (comparative)
most sgraffitoed (superlative)

(art) That has been decorated with sgraffito.


boulework

(woodworking) Archaic form of buhl work.


visitor design pattern

en-noun

visitor design pattern (plural visitor design patterns)

(software, design) Synonym of visitor pattern


little person

little person (plural little people or little persons)

little people (plural)
little persons (plural)

The little people then disappeared, and went each about their work or their pleasure.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 298:

His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats[…]

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:

(folklore, fantasy) A small magical humanoid creature, such as an elf, leprechaun, or fairy.


antiblooming

(photography) Preventing the blooming phenomenon, where excessive light causes large bright patches in a picture.


antiexpressive

en-adj

antiexpressive (comparative more antiexpressive, superlative most antiexpressive)

more antiexpressive (comparative)
most antiexpressive (superlative)

(art) Opposing or avoiding expressiveness.


Russian bar

Russian bars (plural)
Russian barre (alternative)

(circus arts) A gymnastics-style beam held by two porters used to do gymnastics-style tricks.


Kaguya

Borrowed from Japanese 赫映, かぐや (Kaguya).

(Japanese folklore) The protagonist of 赫映姫の物語 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), a mysterious girl from the moon, discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

かぐや姫

Japanese folklore: mysterious girl from the moon


scale cube

(geology, photography) A reference cube of standard, unitary size, normally one centimetre long, or one inch long for older American versions, placed beside a rock or meteorite sample to show scale and orientation during photography. Four sides of the cube are marked N, S, E, and W, respectively, to indicate the cardinal points of the compass, and the other two sides are marked T and B, for top and bottom.


autoiris

(photography) A camera iris that adjusts automatically based on light levels.


Greek foot

en-noun

Greek foot (countable and uncountable, plural Greek feet)

From Greek artists' preference for bare feet exhibiting a second toe longer than the hallux, as opposed to the Egyptian statues which used a longer big toe.

(countable, chiefly art) A foot with a second toe longer than the hallux.


groundline

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-groundline.wav

(art) A line drawn to signify the surface of the ground, especially in architectural blueprints and in drawings by children which lack dimension.


creational pattern

creational pattern (plural creational patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that standardizes the mechanisms of object creation.


structural pattern

structural pattern (plural structural patterns)

(computing, design) A design pattern that makes it easier to create relationships between entities.


soffietta

From Italian soffietta, from soffiare + -etta.

(glassblowing) A tool consisting of a metal tube, often swan necked, attached to a conical nozzle. The nozzle is used to block the mouth of a glass vessel so that it can be further inflated by blowing into the tube.


photoserigraphy

(photography, art) The production of photoserigraphs


photoserigraph

(photography, art) A serigraph made from an existing photograph


rhopography

From rhopos- + -graphy, from Ancient Greek ῥοπογραφία (rhopographía), meaning the painting of petty subjects, such as still-life.

(art) The depiction of trivial, everyday things.


megalography

/ˌmɛɡəˈlɒɡrəfi/

/ˌmɛɡlˈɒɡrəfi/

/ˌmɛɡəˈlɑɡrəfi/

From Ancient Greek μεγαλογραφία (megalographía). Morphologically megalo- + -graphy,

uder

μεγαλογραφία

The room was decorated with magnificent megalography, overwhelming the viewer upon entrance.

What were, in short, these astonishing decorators of all sorts, lavishing frescoes, ceilings, and that historical megalography which surprises us even now by its boldness and breadth?

1889, Octave Uzanne, The Mirror of the World, King's Street, London: John C. Nimmo, page 21:

The Pompeian houses are usually small; the space which the architect gave over to the painter was not, as a rule, of great extent, and was little suited for what the Greeks styled "megalography."

1896, Gaston Boissier, translated by D. Havelock Fisher, Rome and Pompeii: Archaeological Rambles, New York City: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 425:

(art) The depiction of great or grand things, such as heroes and gods; painting on a large scale


pontil mark

(glassblowing) A ring-shaped or irregular scar on a glass object from where it was joined with a pontil or blowpipe. Common on bottles prior to the 1830s.


full-bound

en-adj

full-bound (comparative more full-bound, superlative most full-bound)

more full-bound (comparative)
most full-bound (superlative)

(bookbinding) Bound entirely in leather.


transavantgarde

(art) An Italian form of neo-expressionism


dark slide

dark slides (plural)
darkslide (alternative)

(photography) A plate that covers the sensitized emulsion side of a photographic plate.


tradigital

/tɹəˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

Blend of traditional + digital, coined by Judith Moncrieff.

What has happened since the formulation of The Technological Sublime has not proved me wrong: ASCII art, digital art, glitch art, digital poetry, tradigital art, software art, telematic art, system art, generative art, virtual art, computing art, viral art, […]

2017, Silvia Benso, Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, page 132:

The resulting “tradigital” media practice has become a focus of my creative efforts over the past several years. […] it seems that there is no end to the variety one might find in what could ultimately be labeled as tradigital art practice.

2018, Anna Ursyn, Visual Approaches to Cognitive Education With Technology Integration:

(art) Produced through a combination of traditional and computer-based techniques.


wheel of death

(circus) A hollow wheel larger than a person, attached to and suspended from an axle, and inside of which an artist performs.

rueda de la muerte

large hollow wheel inside which an artist performs


hauntological

hauntological (comparative more hauntological, superlative most hauntological)

more hauntological (comparative)
most hauntological (superlative)

Boards of Canada also pioneered the hauntological approach to creating old-timey and elegiac atmospheres through the use of sound treatments suggestive of decay and wear-and-tear.

2011, Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 331:

In that spirit, some young musicians now are creating music that has been described as “hypnagogic” or “hauntological.” The melodies and rhythms are reminiscent of catchy pop songs of previous decades, but recorded in a way that simulates the effects of age — fuzzy and staticky — as if worn out or heard at a great distance through a grimy haze.

[2011 August 4, Carl Wilson, “‘My So-Called Adulthood’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.

2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 212:

(music, art) Using digital effects that simulate the effects of aging; reminiscent and nostalgic of obsolete media.


anastigmat

Practically any camera will produce good results in this kind of photography provided that it has a good anastigmat lens and a reliable shutter; that the case is light proof; and that it is not asked to do more than it is capable of.

1950 December, Canon Eric Treacy, “Railway Photography”, in Railway Magazine, page 796:


battle piece

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(art) A painting, or a musical composition, representing a battle.

sotamaalaus

painting or musical composition representing a battle


multifigured

a multifigured scene or composition


autobracketing

(photography) A camera feature where several successive shots are taken with slightly different settings and then automatically combined.


flash powder

en-noun

flash powder (countable and uncountable, plural flash powders)

(photography) A powder that burns with a very rapid flash when ignited; used in pyrotechnics and early flash photography.


EVF

(photography) Initialism of electronic viewfinder.


databack

(photography) A mechanism for imprinting the date and time onto film.


carpenter's pencil

carpenter's pencil (plural carpenters' pencils)

carpenters' pencils (plural)
carpenter pencil (alternative)

(woodworking, carpentry) A pencil specifically designed for the requirements of a carpenter: oval shape makes it less likely to roll away, and thick graphite facilitates drawing on rough surfaces.


violin maker

violin makers (plural)
violinmaker (alternative)

(lutherie) A person who makes violins, and usually other bowed stringed instruments such as violas, cellos and double basses.


tailgut

tailguts (plural)
tail gut (alternative)
tail-gut (alternative)

(music, lutherie) A cord which loops through the tailpiece and around the endpin of stringed musical instruments, and which is held at tension by a knot to secure the tailpiece to the body, traditionally made only of gut but now also made of nylon, wire and other synthetic materials.


shutter priority

Most digital cameras (except for inexpensive auto-only models) have a shutter priority shooting mode. . . . [O]nce you select this setting, you can freely choose the shutter speed and the camera will set the matching aperture to properly expose the photo.

2006 August 22, Dave Johnson, "Making the Most of Shutter Priority Mode," PC World (reposted on techhive.com) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the shutter speed of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct aperture setting for that exposure.


aperture priority

For landscapes, still lifes, portraits and the like, you'll want an aperture-priority camera. It lets you set the lens opening, while it sets the shutter speed automatically.

1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 2014-02-25, page 22:

(photography, often used attributively) A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the aperture setting of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct shutter speed for that exposure.

prioridade de abertura

camera setting with automatic shutter speed for aperture exposure set manually


printing frame

(photography) A shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.


hengeyokai

1985, David Cook, Oriental Adventures, TSR Inc., →ISBN
Hengeyokai are intelligent, shape-changing animals. Several subraces exist, each a different type of animal. They are found throughout the Oriental world, usually on the fringes of human-settled lands.

1998-01-28, Lee Gold, Re: B5 Filk: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Us Sinclair, rec.music.filk
If a hengeyokai fails to concentrate (or perhaps gets distracted -- due to being beaten, seeing a mouse, fatigue), the human form's ears may get pointed or a tail may appear.

Hengeyokai transfer between forms almost instantly, though when in human form, they often retain some mark of characteristic of their true animal nature.

2001, Laurence C. Bush, Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga and Folklore, Writers Club Press, page 69:

2013-10-12, Jasin Zujovic, Hengeyokai level adjustment, rec.games.frp.dnd
I've been watching Inuyasha yesterday (too bad that's a German dub and I can understand almost nothing) and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment.

(folklore) A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form.


elementarism

(art) A genre of painting that makes use of bold geometric shapes.


secretary hand

secretary hand (countable and uncountable, plural secretary hands)

secretary hands (plural)
Secretary hand (alternative)

It is written in three different Secretary hands: the first finishing at stanza 9 but with stanzas unnumbered,[…].

1961, Bernard Mellor, The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert, page 280:

When Mercy Harvey advised the nobleman to imitate her handwriting, she specified that he should write the address on the outside of the letter in "a small raggid secretary hand."

1998, Eve Rachele Sanders, Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England, page 173:

There are five scribes, all using variations on Secretary hands consistent with the third quarter of the fifteenth century.

2004, “Introduction”, in Stephen H. A. Shepherd, editor, Turpines Story, page xvi:

While originating at the end of the medieval period, the secretary hand was not widely employed until the early modern period, by which time it had completely displaced the earlier court hands.

2004, “Introduction”, in Helen Ostovich, Elizabeth Sauer, editors, Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550 - 1700, page 7:

Most authors, including dramatists, used both a separate secretary and an italic hand; in many cases the secretary hand was used for composing (that is, cursive or fluent) writing and italic for more formal copying.

2006, Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood, page 84:

(historical, calligraphy) A style of handwriting developed in Europe and used during the 16th and 17th centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic; a variety of this style.


chancery hand

chancery hands (plural)
Chancery hand (alternative)

It begins like a transcript, at the top of the page, without the least appearance or form of an intended original : it is written in the common secretary hand of ,the age, which Crawford mistook for a chancery hand;[…].

1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, volume 1, page 373:

Her name, from Crawford's example of it, seems to me to be written in the same chancery hand, which renders the supposed forgery a mere copy, mistaken by Welwood for the original.

1830, John Pinkerton, The Literary Correspondence of John Pinkerton, Esq., volume 2, page 112:

But, unlike his posterity, Hercolani did not carry this sort of pleasantry too far, and his book remains a splendid specimen of the late chancery hand distinguished by decorative treatment of the ascenders and descenders and a discreet flourishing of initial and terminal letters.

2009, Stanley Morison, Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print, page 165:

(calligraphy, historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.


parting sand

(metalworking) Dry, non-adhesive sand sprinkled upon the partings of a mould to facilitate the separation.


Carolingian minuscule

Carolingian minuscule (usually uncountable, plural Carolingian minuscules)

The Carolingian minuscule, which we have already found brought to perfection at Tours and at other centres of France, was the literary hand of the Frankish Empire, and extended its influence and was gradually adopted in neighbouring countries.

1912, Edward Maunde Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, published 2013, page 403:

The Carolingian empire did not endure past the 9th century; yet Carolingian minuscule survived in France well into the 12th century, as it continued to be the preferred style of writing in monastic book production.

1995, William W. Kibler, editor, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, page 1304:

Later Merovingian hands, however, often from Italy and drawing heavily from half uncials, prefigured the later Carolingian minuscule and achieved a certain graceful legibility.

2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, published 2003, page 247:

(calligraphy, historical) A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.

Written in black ink in Carolingian minuscules, holdings are identified by reference to the vill in which they were situated and their assessment is noted, whilst the lord in 1086 is indicated by an interlineation in red in the same hand.

2000, David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book, page 85:

(calligraphy, usually in the plural) A character written in the script.


gathering board

gathering board (plural gathering boards)

To the rear of the machine is attached a gathering board on a horizontal line with a pivot in the roller about midway between the axis and top

1874, “United States Patent Office”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:

(bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.


elf arrow

From the folk belief that they were used by elves.

When they want beef or mutton on any festal occasion, they betake themselves to the Shetlanders' scatholds or townmails, and with elf-arrows bring down their game.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:

(folklore, fantasy) A magical arrow (weapon) used by elves or other mythological beings.


kettle stitch

(bookbinding) The stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book.


core print

(metalworking) A projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mould, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.


mill bar

(ironworking) A rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.


Mackie line

Named after Alexander Mackie, 19th-century British scientist.

(photography) An adjacency or border effect created during development, at the border between areas of high and low densities.


Bim, BEM, Bum

Clipping of bimbo + BEM (“Bug-Eyed Monster”) + bum (“incompetent man”). From a typical composition for the cover art of science fiction pulp magazines such as Thrilling Wonder Stories, notably by artists such as Earle K. Bergey and Rudolph Belarski, featuring a woman (the "Bim") being attacked or threatened by a monster (the "BEM"), while a man (the "Bum") protects her and/or attacks the monster.

(fandom slang, art) Retro art composition; composition stereotypical of the cover art of mid-20th-century science fiction pulp magazines.

Earle K. Bergey
Thrilling Wonder Stories


musivisual

(art) Of or relating to a semiotic system that is the synchronous union of music and image.


autoexposure

(photography) automatic selection of exposure settings


magicube

Blend of magic + cube, originally a trademark.

(photography) A form of flashcube not requiring electrical power.


flipflash

From flip + flash, originally a trademark.

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.


flashbar

(photography) A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.


dry plate

(photography) A glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.


kinechromatic

(art) Changing colour as a result of some form of movement.


proof sheet

proof sheets (plural)
proofsheet (alternative)


horror vacui

From Latin horror vacuī (“fear of empty space”), from horror (“horror, fear”) + vacuum (“vacuum”).

bor

The “Where's Wally?” series exhibits horror vacui.

(art) In particular, the tendency of an artist (or of art) to fill an entire surface with detail, leaving no blank space.


chromoluminarism

See chromo- and luminous. The style was believed to achieve greater luminosity than physically mixing pigments.


preflash

preflashes (plural)
pre-flash (alternative)

First, a preflash is fired to analyze exposure. Then the flash fires during the actual exposure, creating the image. During the preflash, the camera's Evaluative metering system measures the light reflected back from the subject.

2005, Michael Guncheon, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/EOS 350D:

(photography) A flash produced in advance of the main flash when taking a picture.


autowind

en-verb

autowind (third-person singular simple present autowinds, present participle autowinding, simple past and past participle autowound)

autowinds (present singular third-person)
autowinding (participle present)
autowound (participle past)
autowound (past)

(photography, transitive) To wind on (the film in a camera) automatically.


skinwalking

(folklore, mythology) In certain Native American mythologies, the ability to transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.


sound blimp

(photography) A housing attached to a camera in order to reduce the shutter click sound.


little folk

(folklore, fantasy) Small magical humanoid creatures, such as elves, leprechauns, and fairies.


beauty dish

So called from its dish-like shape and its use in portrait and fashion photography.

(photography) A photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point.


angle of view

(photography) The angular extent of a given scene as imaged by a camera.


nanoart

(art) art made from assemblies of nanoparticles, or by manipulation of matter at the atomic / molecular level


ZOI

Zero One Infinity
zero one infinity rule#English

(software design) Initialism of Zero One Infinity. (a rule of thumb in software suggesting that arbitrary limits on the number of entity instances are not allowed)


merry company

The continued interest of the Utrecht School in such merry companies is found as late as 1644 in Bronchorst's Merry Party also in Brunswick.

2012, Jay Richard Judson, Gerrit Van Honthorst: A Discussion of his Position in Dutch Art:

(art) A painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks and music.


foresketch

(art, very rare) A first or tentative sketch; a study.


quattrocentist

quattrocentists (plural)
quatrocentist (alternative)

(art) An artist of the 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period


veiled plate

(photography) A fogged plate; that is, a photographic plate that has been unintentionally exposed to radiation (such as light), resulting in undesired image degradation.


magazine camera

en-noun

magazine camera (plural magazine cameras)

(photography, dated) A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading.


light-struck

en-adj

light-struck (comparative more light-struck, superlative most light-struck)

more light-struck (comparative)
most light-struck (superlative)
lightstruck (alternative)

From light (noun) + struck (participial adjective).

affix

(photography, of plates or films) Damaged by accidental exposure to light.


centauromachy

From Ancient Greek; see centaur + -machy.

(art) A fight in which centaurs take part; a common theme in ancient relief sculpture.


œil-de-perdrix

œils-de-perdrix (plural)
oeil-de-perdrix (alternative)

Borrowed from French œil-de-perdrix (literally “eye of a partridge”).

bor

(art) A small, round figure; a decorative dot.


œil-de-perdrix

an œil-de-perdrix pattern

(art) Characterized by, or decorated with, small round spots or rings.


oroheliograph

From oro- + heliograph, from Ancient Greek word for "mountain".

(photography) A camera for obtaining a circular panoramic view of the horizon. The photographic plate is placed horizontally with a vertical lens above. A specially-shaped mirror reflects light from the entire horizon to the lens, by means of which it is focused upon the plate.


eau forte

Borrowed from French eau forte (“strong water; nitric acid (which is used in etching plates)”).

(art) An etching or a print from an etched plate.


eikonogen

(chemistry, photography) The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C₁₀H₅(OH)(NH₂)SO₃Na, used as a photographic developer.


Rodinal

(photography) A black-and-white developing agent based on the chemical 4-aminophenol.


pyrosoda

(obsolete, photography) A mixture of pyrogallic acid and soda used as a photographic developer.


alpha paper

The sheets of alpha paper which have been grained are first dipped in soft acetate remaining there for three minutes. They are dried in an oven and made ready for impregnation with hard acetate.

(UK, dated, photography) A sensitized photographic paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.


Niepce's process

Invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829.

(photography, historical) A photographic process based on the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.


mattoir

(engraving) A kind of coarse punch with a rasp-like face, used for making a rough surface on etching ground, or on the naked copper, the effect after biting being very similar to stippled lines.


divinity calf

(bookbinding) calfskin stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books


nero antico

A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]

1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730:

(art) A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.


Neo-Greek

(art) Describing a style of French painters and architects of the mid-19th century.


quadraturism

(art) An Italian genre of painting that used architectural elements to create illusions of perspective.


printing out

(photography) A method of printing in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light, without subsequent development by means of chemicals.


printing in

(photography) A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.


wet plate

(photography) A plate whose film retains its sensitivity only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after exposure it is developed and fixed.


ushioni

Borrowed from Japanese 牛鬼 (うしおに, ushioni).

(Japanese folklore) An ox ogre or demon; an evil ox spirit.


shot sample

(metalworking) A sample taken for assay from a molten metallic mass by pouring a portion into water to granulate it.


weldless

(metalworking) Made or done without welding.


barrel process

(metalworking) A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.


basic process

(metalworking) A Bessemer process or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment.


bromoiodized

(photography) Treated with bromides and iodides.


Bower-Barff process

From the surnames of the two men who developed the process.

(metalworking) A method of coating iron or steel with magnetic iron oxide in order to minimize atmospheric corrosion. The articles to be treated are put into a closed retort and a current of superheated steam passed through for a period, followed by a current of producer gas (carbon monoxide), to reduce any higher oxides that may have been formed.


bromogelatin

(photography) A process for preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.


bromide paper

en-noun

bromide paper (countable and uncountable, plural bromide papers)

bromide papers (plural)
bromid paper (alternative)

(photography, historical) A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with silver bromide, used in contact printing and in enlarging.


champlevé

/ˌʃɒ̃mləˈveɪ/

(art) Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired.


Neo-Attic

(art) Describing a late Hellenistic style of bas-relief sculpture


neonist

(art) An artist who constructs artworks from neon fluorescent tubes.


neo-historicism

neo-historism (alternative)
neo-Historism (alternative)
Neo-Historism (alternative)
neo-Historicism (alternative)
Neo-Historicism (alternative)

(philosophy, art, architecture) A movement that draws inspiration from classical historicism


solargraphy

(photography) the practice of creating solargraphs; creating photographs of the path of the Sun across the sky using a pinhole camera and exposure periods measured in days or months


solargraph

(photography) A photograph of the paths of the Sun across the sky created with pinhole photography.


loose-handed

en-adj

loose-handed (comparative more loose-handed, superlative most loose-handed)

more loose-handed (comparative)
most loose-handed (superlative)

In a search for the complex shifts of form in the foot's shaping, the drawings present a loose-handed version of planar slices.

2013, Sue Ferguson Gussow, Architects Draw: Freehand Fundamentals, →ISBN, page 83:

On the wall to his right, loose-handed paintings in dark, pungent red boasted familiar shapes; varied angles of human faces, mouths stretched open, lips curled back, eyes bulging, teeth clenched and grinding.

2004, Andre Duza, Dead Bitch Army, →ISBN, page 118:

Smith not only replaced Warhol's purposely bland flavors with posole (white hominy) which is popular in the Southwest, she also replaced Warhol's clinical rendition of the can with a loose-handed drawing and applied a jolly background ....

2000, Marjorie Devon, Tamarind: forty years, page 106:

(art) Sketchy and flowing rather than geometric and precise.


night hag

(folklore) a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis


vaporwave

vapourwave (alternative)
Vaporwave (alternative)

Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is critical of Western culture's preoccupation with the past, but it is not the only art form to call our collective regression into question.

2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:

Vaporwave arose in reaction to huge economic and social forces that are still very much a part of our lives: globalization, runaway consumerism, and manufactured nostalgia chief among them.

2016 August 18, “How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet”, in Esquire:

Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.

2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in New York Times:

The haunting affect of Vaporwave's ghostly music is clearly seductive to a political moment which revels in dystopia, the golden years of the 90s and the sounds of the 90s: financial boom, pedestalled American Dreams and […]

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(music, art) A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.


stud finder

(construction, woodworking) A hand-held device used to determine the location of framing studs used in light-frame construction after the walling surface has been installed.


overgrain

en-verb

overgrain (third-person singular simple present overgrains, present participle overgraining, simple past and past participle overgrained)

overgrains (present singular third-person)
overgraining (participle present)
overgrained (participle past)
overgrained (past)

(art) To apply an additional layer of colour to graining, or imitation woodgrain.


headground

One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.

1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783, page 567:

But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.

1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 12:

(photography, dated) A background used for a headshot.


go narrow

go narrow (third-person singular simple present goes narrow, present participle going narrow, simple past went narrow, past participle gone narrow)

goes narrow (present singular third-person)
going narrow (participle present)
went narrow (past)
gone narrow (participle past)

Going wide to fit it all in will emphasize the foreground at the expense of the background; going narrow with a long lens will preclude the coloured 'jobbies' clinging to the cliff top that I'm trying not to tread on.

(photography) To use a narrow-angle lens to take one or more photographs.


go wide

go wide (third-person singular simple present goes wide, present participle going wide, simple past went wide, past participle gone wide)

goes wide (present singular third-person)
going wide (participle present)
went wide (past)
gone wide (participle past)

1998, Sport Diver. Vol. 6, No. 6. Pg. 36.
First and foremost, you'll need a wide-angle lens for going wide on your dive.

2004. Digital Photography Bible. Dan Simon. Pg. 48.
You need to go wide just to fit things in.

(photography) To use a wide-angle lens to take one or more photographs.


narrow-angle lens

en-noun

narrow-angle lens (plural narrow-angle lenses)


cambion

From Late Latin cambio (“I exchange”). Doublet of change.

(folklore) The half-demon offspring of either an incubus and a female human or a succubus and a male human.


gesturalism

(art) A style of modern art painting characterized by energetic, expressive brushstrokes deliberately emphasizing the sweep of the painter's arm or movement of the hand


penwork

An extraordinary English Regency cabinet-on-chest entirely covered in elaborate penwork, circa 1820, is at Kentshire of New York, with a $475,000 price tag.

2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times:


tomhan

(Scotland, folklore) A magical fairy mound.


keyline

(graphic design) A boundary line that separates color and monochromatic areas or differently colored areas of print.


alloverness

The virtual absence of white in Mr. Whitney’s work creates a great visual heat and internal pressure — an alloverness that reflects his careful study of Pollock — but, of course, it also has symbolic overtones.

2015 July 16, Roberta Smith, “Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid”, in New York Times:

(art) The non-differential treatment of the surface of a two-dimensional artwork such as a painting, giving it a sense of uniformity and a lack of focus.


afterlength

afterlengths (plural)
after length (alternative)
after-length (alternative)

Some luthiers believe it to be important to tune the afterlengths.

(music, lutherie) The shorter length of string between the bridge and the tailpiece of a stringed instrument, on the other side from that which is usually played.


International Klein Blue

Named after French artist Yves Klein, who first mixed it.

(art) An intense deep blue hue achieved by means of ultramarine pigment and a binder.

Internasionale Klein-blou

deep blue hue achieved through ultramarine pigment and a binder


luminism

(art) An American artistic style of the 19th century, characterised by effects of light in landscapes.


shopdropping

/ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋ/

/ˈʃɑpˌdɹɑpɪŋ/

From shop + dropping, modelled on shoplifting.

This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.

2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the aisles? Stores provide a stage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

(often art) The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of advertising, countercultural performance art, protest, etc.


Daedalic

(art) Belonging or relating to an early form of Ancient Greek sculpture with Oriental influences.


sabeline

sabeline (countable and uncountable, plural sabelines)

(art) Ox hair dyed red to look like the higher-quality red sable, and sometimes blended with it; a substitute material for red sable in making brushes.


camel-hair brush

camel-hair brush (plural camel-hair brushes)

(art) A soft haired brush made from squirrel hair or a blend of hairs.