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

en-noun

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 by not allowing the mould to stick together.


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

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-little folk.wav

(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.


trench art

(art, military) Any decorative item made by soldiers, prisoners of war, or civilians, where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences.


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 UK)
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.


light-sensitive

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

more light-sensitive (comparative)
most light-sensitive (superlative)

(photography, of substances and surfaces) Changing chemically or physically when exposed to light.


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.


formatize

en-verb

formatize (third-person singular simple present formatizes, present participle formatizing, simple past and past participle formatized)

formatizes (present singular third-person)
formatizing (participle present)
formatized (participle past)
formatized (past)

The desired symmetry was only achieved by "formatizing" great masterpieces; and this was why Christian von Mechel had to remove additions to pictures and remedy losses when the Hapsburg paintings were moved from the Stallburg to the new museum in the Belvedere Palace.

1982, Joseph Alsop, The Rare Art Traditions, page 120:

While not as destructive as formatizing, this close trimming is a further indication that the albums are art collections and not essentially print collections, for even in the eighteenth century a diehard print collector would always prefer ...

1992, Marjorie B. Cohn, A noble collection: the Spencer albums of old master prints, page 42:

Indeed, this latter process may have begun during the seventeenth century: Muizelaar and Van de Wetering have suggested that 'formatizing' (the term sometimes used to describe the cutting down or adding to a picture, or changing its shape from oval to rectilinear as part of a predetermined scheme) may have been ...

2000, John Loughman, John Michael Montias, Public and private spaces, page 125:

(rare, art) To trim or add to a picture in order to make it fit into a standard frame size.


alogism

en-noun

alogism (countable and uncountable, plural alogisms)

His right eye was black; the left, for some strange reason (alogism), green. Black eyebrows, but (alogism) one higher that the other. In short a foreigner (alogism).

1974, Canadian Slavonic Papers - Volume 16, page 5:

The formal composition in all of these works done in the style of alogism is structured with mathematical precision approaching that of a blueprint.

2000, Nina Gurianova, Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and the Early Russian Avant-garde, 1910-1918, →ISBN, page 95:

According to Firtich, the alogism that links Carroll's and Kruchenykh's nonsense is made up of three aspects, of which the linguistic experiment of 'nonsense' is but one. Also linking these figures is the concept of alternative metaphysical realms being explored, and an artistic épatage against the dominant contemporary social and cultural institutions.

2014, Helen Palmer, Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense, →ISBN, page 10:

(art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.

The theatricality of logic is, then, at least as effective in such speeches as are the meanderings of many an avant-garde playwright whose comic alogisms tend, sometime, to detract from the gravity of the situation described.

1968, The Cresset - Volume 32, Issue 1, page 9:

In the puppet show he also found the style of discourse of the puppet-show barker, which breaks into the course of the action, with its tones of ironic publicity and praise, its alogisms and deliberate absurdities.

1976, Henryk Baran, Semiotics and Structuralism: Readings from the Soviet Union, page 288:

Mann's division of alogisms into 1 . alogisms as a basis and 2. alogisms as overtone (style), together with his account of the generalising (all-embracing) nature of the grotesque is convincing, and using these theories H. Gunther takes the discussion further.

1982, Per Dalgård, The Function of the Grotesque in Vasilij Aksenov, page 18:

But many verbal absurdities and alogisms are scattered throughout the book.

1984, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, →ISBN, page 423:

The dadaists emphasized that the basis of the creative process stems from alogisms.

1997, Osip Mandelʹshtam, Jane Gary Harris, The complete crítical prose, →ISBN, page 345:

(art) An absurd or nonsensical element deliberately added to a work that belongs to the alogism movement.


synchroflash

synchroflash (usually uncountable, plural synchroflashes)

(photography, chiefly attributive) Synchronization of the flash and shutter of a camera.


Neo-Dada

(art) A minor art movement with similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada art.


hyperlapse

(photography) A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.


ringstone

(art) A carved, contoured, donut-shaped stone object in early Indian art.


noli me tangere

noli me tangere (plural noli me tangeres)

noli me tangeres (plural)
noli-me-tangere (alternative)

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/-ˌmeɪ ˈtɑnd͡ʒəɹeɪ/

Antonio da Correggio
Jesus
Mary Magdalene
Museo del Prado
Vulgate

PIE word
 *né
From Middle English noli me tangere, noly me tangere (“skin disease of the face; bad-tempered person who should be avoided; personification of wrath”), a learned borrowing from Late Latin nōlī mē tangere (literally “do not touch me”), from Latin nōlī (“do not”) + mē (“me, myself”) + tangere (the present active infinitive of tangō (“to grasp; to touch”)). The phrase is recorded in John 20:17 of the Vulgate, a 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible, as having been spoken to Mary Magdalene by Jesus shortly after his resurrection outside his tomb. The original phrase was the Koine Greek μή μου ἅπτου (mḗ mou háptou, “stop clinging to me”).
Senses 2–5 refer to the literal meaning of the phrase. For example, in the case of sense 4 (“any of various plants with fruits or seed capsules that, when ripe, burst open and discharge their seeds when touched, or with leaves that fold and droop when touched”), the name alludes to the assumption that the plants do not wish to be touched, and react by exploding their fruits or closing their leaves if this happens.

ref

From the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

noncog

μή μου ἅπτου

asia josta pysyä loitolla

someone or something to be avoided or not interfered with

kosketusherkkä kasvi

In the rest of the private lodgings contiguous to this, are divers of the best pictures of the greate masters, Raphael, Titian, &c. and, in my esteeme, above all, the Noli me tangere of our blessed Saviour to Mary Magdalen after his Resurrection, of Hans Holbein [the Younger], than which I never saw so much reverence and kind of heavenly astonishment express'd in a picture.

1680 September 12 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 2 September 1680]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 524:

In a compartment over the communion-table is an estimable picture; a noli me tangere, by [Anton Raphael] Mengs, who painted it at Rome, and parted with it to the college for three hundred guineas.

1813, J[ames] N[orris] Brewer, “Oxfordshire [All Souls’ College]”, in The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County. […], volume XII, part II, London: […] J. Harris; […], →OCLC, page 110:

Half of the other pictures are Magdalens, Flights into Egypt, Crucifixions, Depositions from the Cross, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres, or the Sacrifice of Abraham, or martyrdoms of saints, originally painted as altar-pieces, or for the shrines of chapels, and wofully lacking the accompaniments which the artist had in view.

1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Emptiness of Picture-galleries”, in The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 133:

He studied a tapestry on one wall of a noli me tangere wrought by a craftsman whose signature was illegible.

2008, Allen Russo, chapter 1, in Rufus of Rhodes: Volume II: Marching with the Legions, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 13:

(Christianity, art) A picture depicting Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene shortly after his resurrection from the dead (see the etymology).


focusing screen

en-noun

focusing screen (plural focusing screens)

Once the microgrid and split-image rangefinder became the major focusing controls, the focusing screen itself became a secondary or even tertiary focusing area and was/is generally ignored by many users.

1993 July, Herbert Keppler, “SLR: Have manufacturers fouled up viewing screens for technological progress?”, in Popular Photography, volume 57, number 3, page 17:

You can always see the covered area on the focusing screen regardless what the subject distance might be or what close-up accessories are used.

2012, Ernst Wildi, The Medium Format Advantage, →ISBN, page 183:

This is because the reflex mirror in some SLR cameras is not quite long enough to provide full illumination of the entire focusing screen with the image from a telescope. Fortunately, such reduced illumination of the focusing screen will not affect your photograph.

2012, Jeffrey R. Charles, Practical Astrophotography, →ISBN:

(photography) A flat translucent material found in a system camera that allows the photographer to preview the framed image in a viewfinder.


ambitty

(glassblowing) Of glass: covered with stony speckles, symptoms of incipient devitrification.


tripack

tripack (countable and uncountable, plural tripacks)

In 1897 du Hauron conceived the idea of using a tripack for recording color photographs.

2013, John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography:

(photography) Film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.


old woman's tooth

From its shape, which has a broad base and a narrow blade projecting well beyond its base plate.

(woodworking) A traditional hand-operated router.


MCSD

(design) Initialism of member of the Chartered Society of Designers, (a professional body for designers).


Holbeinian

en-adj

Holbeinian (comparative more Holbeinian, superlative most Holbeinian)

more Holbeinian (comparative)
most Holbeinian (superlative)

Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death.

2000, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, W.M. Thackeray's European Sketch Books, →ISBN, page 127:

His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire.

2006, Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII, →ISBN, page 98:

Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish.

2010, Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet, →ISBN:

(art) In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.


gryllos

From Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “comic figure, caricature”).

bor

(art, historical) A caricatural creature found in ancient and medieval art, typically featuring a human head with mostly bizarre, animal anatomy.


New Sincerity

Popularized in the 1990s by American author David Foster Wallace.

[Christy Wampole] notes that the New Sincerity has been around since the 1980s, and is a response to "postmodern cynicism, detachment and meta-referentiality." She's right about that, and the examples she cites—David Foster Wallace, Wes Anderson, and Cat Power—are right too. But the New Sincerity failed, she tells us.

2012 November 20, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, “Sincerity, Not Irony, Is Our Age's Ethos”, in The Atlantic:

(art) A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.


full-frame

(photography, of a camera) Having an image sensor of the same size as 35mm film, i.e. 36 × 24 millimetres.


clavilux

Coined by the musician and inventor Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), from Latin clavis (“key”) and lux (“light”).

(art) A mechanical device for projecting lumia (an art form consisting of light patterns).


birth tray

(art) A painted salver used as a ceremonial gift on the occasion of a birth in parts of medieval Italy


empaestic

en-adj

empaestic (comparative more empaestic, superlative most empaestic)

more empaestic (comparative)
most empaestic (superlative)
empaistic (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἐμπαιστικός (empaistikós, “embossed”), from ἐμπαίω (empaíō), from παίω (paíō, “strike”).

der

Semper called attention to the empaestic character of the reliefs, and his remarks have often been repeated.

1897, “Two Reliefs from Assos”, in American journal of archaeology, page 512:

The empaestic pictures of the Jews in the minds of those who dislike them are seldom devoid of any grain of truth: yet such images are always falsifications of the truth.

1949, Jewish Affairs, volume 4, page 11:

(art, rare) Embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.


santilmo

(folklore) A floating flame or fire ball, similar to a will o' the wisp, that stalk or chase people at night, believed to be the ignited blood of a person who met a tragic death.


neomorphism

(biology, geology, art) A new development of form or structure.


blackstream

Blend of black + mainstream, coined by Elsa Honig Fine in her paper Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement (1971).

(art) Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.


surmoulage

en-noun

surmoulage (countable and uncountable, plural surmoulages)

(art) The fraudulent practice of taking a casting directly from a sculpture rather than from the artist's original.


multiplism

He's now mostly doing originals and his own style of art called multiplism. Multiplism is when Victori does multiple, connected faces in one piece to show a person or character's various emotions.

2015 February 18, Marlon Wallace, “DVD Review - Victori: The Truth Just Can't Be One Thing”, in WBOC TV 16:

Guided by his business school-educated son, he wants to take on the New York Art scene with his aesthetic movement “multiplism,” a cubist spin-off featuring works such as the Mona Lisa with a dozen different expressions.

2015 February 28, “Lives and times”, in Boston Globe:

It tells the story of Victor's career as a famous lucrative portrait artist who migrated from Korea to America in 1972, working mainly out of malls across America to his retirement in present day spent painting and perfecting his post-modern art form "Multiplism."

2015 March 25, “Documentary tells story of Rutherford resident artist and the family that backs him”, in NorthJersey.com:

(art) The style created and promoted by Victor Victori, which depicts a subject in different positions and expressions in order to show change over time.


wirewater

wirewater (usually uncountable, plural wirewaters)

wirewaters (plural)
wire water (alternative)

Collecting the wirewaters (water that washes the forming wire) into a separate line for delivery to the treatment plant or to the whitewater tank as needed for makeup water.

1976, Frederick R. Bliss, Papermill wastewater treatment by microstraining, page 42:

Wherever possible, stocks tested were slush pulps (hardwood, softwood, recycled fibre and broke) before and after blending (ex concentrators, blend chest and machine chest), after chemical addition (filler, size, retention aid), thin stock(s) and wirewater(s).

1994, Journal of the Technical Association of the Australian and New Zealand Pulp and Paper Industry, volume 47:

On a multi-ply board machine, either on a multifourdrinier machine or on a multiple former machine, the wire waters are collected separately and the water circuits are usually separated.

2000, Papermaking: Stock preparation and wet end, page 137:

(papermaking, rare) The water used to wash the forming mesh conveyor belt (known as a wire).


flameworker

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namepiece

namepieces (plural)
name piece (alternative)

(art) The artwork after which an otherwise unnamed artist is named.


UniWB

(photography) The technique of using a modified digital camera to capture deliberately distorted images whose image histograms are conducive to making optimum use of the sensor's dynamic range.


image histogram

image histogram (plural image histograms)

(photography, computer graphics) A histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image.


lap joint

There is, however, a most important and peculiar element of strength in the ordinary lap-joints for circular seams, as distinguished from straight seams, in the circumstance that the circular lap-joint cannot possibly be distorted like the straight lap-joint, under extreme tension

1858 November 27, “Recent Practice in the Locomotive Engine”, in Sholto Percy, editor, Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume 69, London: Knight and Lacey, page 512:

Using the lap joint in any of its applications provides strength in a cabinet where a butt joint would or could be used.

1990, Byron W. Maguire, Cabinetmaking: From Design to Finish, Carlsbad, CA: Craftsman, page 234:

(construction, woodworking) A joint made by securing together two overlapping pieces


shoefie

Daisy, Maria and Jo – I have such fond memories of taking my first shoefies with you guys in the sixth form common room.

2015, Hannah Rochell, “Acknowledgements”, in En Brogue: The Trainers Guide, London: Saltyard Books, →ISBN:

I grab my umbrella and swagger to the garage door, stopping long enough to turn around and say, "Oh, Mom. I borrowed your shoes. I hope that's okay." / She nods dazedly. / "Aren't they bitchin'?" I ask Hadley, staring down at my feet. I pull out my phone and take a quick picture. "Shoefie!"

2016, Jessica Brody, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”, in A Week of Mondays, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 242:

When we swung open the door to the stairwell, Selfie was sitting on the stairs holding her phone at different angles near her foot. As I got closer, I realized she was photographing one of her high-heeled boots. Prezbo looked puzzled. "Oh, hi." She glanced up at us. "I'm taking a shoefie."

2017, Holly Kowitt, The Principal’s Underwear is Missing, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 137:

(photography, slang, neologism) A photograph that one takes of one's own shoes while one is wearing them.


monobath

(photography) Such that the development process involves immersion in only one chemical bath.


artist's impression

artist's impression (plural artists' impressions)

(art, architecture) A sketch or drawing of someone or something, produced when it is not possible to take a photograph.

Ideenskizze

if of something planned but not realized


surasundari

(art) In Indian art, a young maiden characterizing feminine beauty and graceful sensuality.


prefog

en-verb

prefog (third-person singular simple present prefogs, present participle prefogging, simple past and past participle prefogged)

prefogs (present singular third-person)
prefogging (participle present)
prefogged (participle past)
prefogged (past)

(photography, transitive) To fog (photographic film) in advance.


watermedia

(art) Media that are distinguished from oil or other media by being diluted with water when used.


photographic paper

en-noun

photographic paper (countable and uncountable, plural photographic papers)

(photography) paper or card coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, typically containing silver salts


Empire

However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time.

1997, Mark McGrail, Furniture Brasses: A Short History of English Furniture Fittings, Armac Brassworks, →ISBN, page 21:

(fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).

...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.

1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 17:

(of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.


rollerman

(metalworking) A person employed in a roller mill to insert the hot metal into the rolls.


autofocal

(photography) Having or relating to an autofocus feature.


orotone

(photography) A photographic print on glass, decorated with gold leaf or coloured with a gold pigment.


OCL

(computing, design) Initialism of Object Constraint Language, a declarative language developed at IBM that is now part of the UML standard.


watercolouring

(art) The practice of painting in watercolours.


carbro

(photography, historical) A print made from carbon tissue coated in pigmented gelatin, which is then selectively hardened by contact with a silver bromide paper print rather than exposure to light.


policy pattern

strategy pattern
strategy pattern#English

(software, design) Synonym of strategy pattern.


metrogon

(photography) A kind of high-resolution, low-distortion, extra-wide photographic lens with a 90-degree field of view.


crimson lake

crimson lake (countable and uncountable, plural crimson lakes)

These locomotives, which were finished in crimson lake livery with gold lining and lettering, were not considered very satisfactory, for their gearless motors, with armatures mounted directly on the axles, set up considerable vibration.

1950 September, “Central London Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 620:


menk

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:

Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:

A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post:

(Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.


Arte Povera

/ˌɑːteɪ ˈpɒvəɹə/

/ˌɑɹteɪ ˈpoʊvəɹə/

Borrowed from Italian arte povera (literally “poor art”). The term was coined by Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant and introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance.

coin

One mysterious collector wearing a black porkpie hat enthusiastically bid on many of the best Arte Povera works and ended up buying several by Boetti.

2014 February 12, Carol Vogel, “In London, an Auction of Arte Povera Yields Rich Results”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Arte Povera, the politicized avant-garde art movement that blossomed in Italy in the late ’60s, is having a moment.

2017 January 30, M. H. Miller, “Arte Povera Is Back”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, →ISSN:

Energetic and urbane[…] Mr. Celant championed this generation of artists throughout his 50-year career, presenting large exhibitions of Arte Povera at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at P.S. 1 in New York City.

2020 April 30, Jason Farago, “Germano Celant, Curator Behind Italy’s Arte Povera, Dies at 79”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(art) A radical Italian modern art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, making use of worthless or common materials such as earth or newspaper, in the hope of subverting the commercialization of art.


black lady

(Philippines, folklore) A ghost of a lady in black mourning clothes.


epipole

(photography) The intersection of the baselines of two cameras (used to form a stereo image)


fifth wall

If the 'fourth wall', the barrier between the actor and the audience introduced by theatre conventions, is an invisible artefact between the stage and the audience, the fifth wall may be thought of as the invisible wall between critics or readers and theatre practitioners.

2005, Lynette Hunter, Peter Lichtenfels, Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, →ISBN:

The volume is based on a workshop held at the Globe, designed as an opportunity to break down a so-called fifth wall – an invisible barrier between theatre practitioners and critics.

2006, Peter Holland, Shakespeare Survey: Volume 59, Editing Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 372:

Not only does Sturgeon break the “fifth wall” between playwright and audience in section 7 of this story (becoming a sort of character in the story himself), he goes further in section 8, breaking a sixth wall by warning the reader that he or she may already have become infected by the parasite just by reading this far.

2013, Theodore Sturgeon, The Perfect Host, →ISBN:

The words "stop complaining" serve as advice for the character within the game; acknowledgement of potential frustration the player may be experiencing by breaking the fourth wall (between character and player); and a wink toward critics with a move known as lampshade hanging (self-deprecatingly pointing out a flaw in anticipation of criticism), which breaks the fifth wall (between videogame designer and critic) (Hunter & Lichtenfels, 2005).

2014, Hannah R. Gerber, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Bridging Literacies with Videogames, →ISBN, page 40:

(art) The divide between critics or audience members and author or theater practitioner.


ransom note effect

en-noun

ransom note effect (plural ransom note effects)

In reference of the practice of assembling ransom demands from letters cut out of newspapers, to conceal the sender's handwriting.

(design) The unprofessional appearance of a document that uses too many different typefaces.


pleinairism

Some Americans may have concluded that such passionate pleinairism was unsustainable; it may have seemed too chaotic, insubstantial, repetitious, or ugly.

2017, Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, page 214:

(art) The practice of painting outdoors, in the open.


pleinairist

(art) An artist who paints outdoors, in the open.


mid-key

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(photography) Using or relating to a level of lighting between low-key and high-key.


cliché verre

(art) A method of either etching, painting or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass or film, and printing the resulting image on light-sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom.


midtone

(photography, art) A medium tone, one that is neither very dark nor very light.


nasnas

(Islam, folklore) A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).


under-stander

under-standers (plural)
understander (alternative)

(circus) One who is at the base of a formation of acrobats in a performance, as of a human pyramid.


zweibein

Equivalent to German zwei (“two”) + Beine (“legs”).


half-length

(art, of a portrait, a sculpture or a photograph) Depicting only the upper half of the subject.

puolivartalo-

(arts) depicting only the upper half of the subject


pen picture

pen pictures (plural)
pen-picture (alternative)

(art, archaic) A picture drawn with a pen.


diwata

Borrowed from Cebuano diwata, from Proto-Visayan *diwata, from Malay dewata, from Sanskrit देवता (devatā, “god, deity”).

(mythology, folklore) In Filipino folklore, a fairy, spirit, usually a lesser god or goddess, believed to guard natural features such as forests.


rougarou

From Cajun French rougarou (“werewolf”).

Like the European werewolf and loup-garou, the French Canadian rougarou also often appears in the form of a dog. Whoever neglects his Easter duties or goes unconfessed for seven years finds himself changed into a rougarou at night.

1961, Maria Leach, God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog:

“I told you, I'm not the rougarou. And if I say anything, the rougarou will kill me. I may be old, but I don't want to go that way.” “Selena, I'm going to hurt you worse than any rougarou.”

2016, Heather Graham, Blood on the Bayou: A Cafferty & Quinn Novella, Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated, →ISBN:

“The rougarou—him's a big, bad wolf.” “Bad?” asked Lizabeth. “What do you mean?”

2016, Jonathan Maberry, The Orphan Army, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:

(folklore) A werewolf or werewolf-like creature said to inhabit swamps in Louisiana (and sometimes French Canadian) folklore.


cad.

cad. yellow


aerogami

Aerogami - construction of paper flying "things," is also popular.

“The art is as old as paper,” says Karthik adding, “so far, we have tried modular, tessellation, crumpling, sculpture, wet folding and aerogami techniques.

2013 February 13, Anusha Parthasarathy, “Creativity in every fold”, in The Hindu:

The activities lined up this month at MyTown includes aerogami workshops, meeting Santa Claus up close and personal, and a “Jolly Hunt” where participants will have to find clues of mystery “selfie” spots in the Christmas exhibit area on the ground floor.

2018 December 17, “A Christmas homecoming”, in The Sun Daily:


High Renaissance

(art, historical) The period marked by the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance, traditionally regarded as taking place from the 1490s until 1527.


kit lens

(photography) A camera lens that is bundled with a camera body, usually at a discount price.


pyrophotography

(photography) Any photographic process involving the use of heat to fix the picture.


candid camera

Although used as its name, the term predates the long-running American television program Candid Camera (first broadcast in 1948).

A candid camera’s role in higher education, with photographs of co-eds in the nude, commanded public interest today.

1937 October 4, “Candid Camera Shots Of College Co-eds Minus Trappings Has Officials Disturbed”, in Prescott Evening Courier, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 1:

Miss Rand . . . is wanted in criminal court to face charges of biting a theater customer who tried to take her picture with a candid camera.

1938 October 11, Frederick C. Othman, “Sally Stole My Fan Act, Faith Says”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 12:

Dorothy Netherton, who with Grace Valentine went to Europe this summer, has more than 400 enlarged candid-camera pictures of scenes taken during the tour.

1938 October 14, “Students Hold Short Impromptu Pep Rally”, in Daily Journal-World, Lawrence, Kansas, retrieved 2017-11-21, page 5:

Last week, after nine years of development work, Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market.

1954 January 18, “Business Abroad: Camera Comeback”, in Time, retrieved 2017-11-21:

Mr. Dorsky's Arbor Vitae conveys more acute feelings of sadness and ecstasy. . . . Mr. Dorsky's candid camera also catches people rapt in thought.

2000 October 7, Stephen Holden, “Film Festival Review: Sparks of Lyrical Meditation Fly From the Cutting Edge”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-11-21:

(photography, hyphenated when used attributively) A camera which is concealed or unobtrusive, used to obtain candid photographs of people who usually are unaware; the practice of taking such photos.

caméra cachée

a camera which is concealed or unobtrusive


Land camera

(historical, photography) An early form of polaroid camera


imago clipeata

imago clipeata (plural imagines clipeatae)

(art, historical) A depiction of a deceased or famous person on a round shield (clipeus), popular in the art, manuscripts and architecture of Roman and Early Christian culture.


soft focus

Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.

2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(photography) The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.


clipeated

(art, rare, historical) Depicted on a round shield (clipeus).


Lukomorye

From Russian Лукомо́рье (Lukomórʹje, literally “the curve of the sea”).

bor

Lukomorie (alternative)
Lukomorje (alternative)

(folklore, Slavic mythology) A fictional land in Russian folklore.

Loukomorie

a fictional land in the Russian folklore


oligochromatic

(art) Using only a few colours; oligochrome.


moist media

(art) A form of art that represents the fusion of biological processes and computing.


aleatoricism

(art) An artistic technique involving the use of chance to produce an artwork.


fairy money

(folklore) Money given by the fairies, which later transforms into withered leaves or similar.


netprov

en-noun

netprov (countable and uncountable, plural netprovs)

(art) A form of online theatrical improvisation acted out on social media.


cyberperformance

cyberperformance (countable and uncountable, plural cyberperformances)

(art) dramatic performance presented online or in cyberspace


cyberperformer

(art) One who enacts a cyberperformance.


grundylow

(UK, folklore, mythology) Alternative form of grindylow.


grindylow

grindylows (plural)
grundylow (alternative)

Possibly connected to Grendel, the monster from the epic Beowulf.

(UK, folklore, mythology) A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.


bow grip

bow grips (plural)
bow-grip (alternative)
bowgrip (alternative)

I need a re-hair and a new bow grip but I can't afford either.

(music, lutherie) The small section of a stringed instrument's bow near the heel having grippy material such as goatskin leather or snakeskin wrapped tightly around the bow stick between the lapping and the frog, so as to facilitate it being held and to protect the stick.


rehair

en-verb

rehair (third-person singular simple present rehairs, present participle rehairing, simple past and past participle rehaired)

rehairs (present singular third-person)
rehairing (participle present)
rehaired (participle past)
rehaired (past)
re-hair (alternative)

Could you rehair my bow by tomorrow?

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) To renew the hair of the bow of a bowed string instrument.


rehair

I've heard he does excellent rehairs.

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) An instance of re-hairing.


underslide

(music, lutherie, bowmaking) The metal slide attached to the frog and sitting between the frog and the stick of a bow.


puntilion

These Balls were small, but exceeding thick bubbles of Glass, which being crack'd off from the Puntilion whilst very hot […] do thereby […] acquire a very porous and very brittle texture […].


geometrism

(art) a focus on geometric forms in visual art or the various movements that have engaged in it


iconometer

(photography, historical) An early form of viewfinder.


microcinematography

Microcinematography can reveal wonders and horrors in the universe of tiny things living around us. […] The most recent natural phenomenon brought to light by microcinematography is both wonder and horror and involves one of humanity’s greatest foes: the mosquito.

2022 October 4, Oliver Whang, “‘Our Jaws Dropped’: Mosquito Larvae’s Killer Harpoon Heads Revealed.”, in The New York Times:

(biology, photography) The making of films by using a microscope, especially of biological specimens, by means of time-lapse photography


parsemage

Soufflage is a technique in which liquid paint is blown onto a surface; in parsemage charcoal dust is scattered on the surface of water and then skimmed off with a sheet of paper; in fumage images are imprinted on a sheet of paper or canvas by the smoke of a candle or a kerosene lamp […]

2017, Kari Jormakka, Basics Design Methods, page 37:

(art) A surrealist automatic art technique in which dust from charcoal or chalk is scattered onto water and then skimmed off by passing stiff paper or cardboard just under the surface.


negative bath

(photography) A silver solution in which photographic negatives are placed to be sensitized.


intermediality

(especially art) The quality of being intermedial, combining several media.


Dataism

He regards it above all as 'Dataism' - a term and an art opposed to the iconoclasm of Modernism in general and Dadaism in particular. Dataism restates traditional aesthetics through formal practices.

1993, Frank Popper, Art of the electronic age, page 87:

One of the Cyberart aspects is the "Dataism" This art is opposed to the iconoclast features of Dadai"sm. By his formal practices, the Dataism reaffirms the traditional aesthetic.

1999, Jean-Claude Heudin, Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity:

Arts Westchester's Dataism exhibition is scheduled to open in the fall of 2019 in its downtown White Plains gallery.

2018 March 12, Aleesia Forni, “ArtsWestchester receives $30000 from National Endowment for the Arts”, in Westfair:

(art) A movement that emphasizes traditional aesthetics and formal practices.


Dataist

en-adj

Dataist (comparative more Dataist, superlative most Dataist)

more Dataist (comparative)
most Dataist (superlative)

Dataist works are not singular art objects but algorithmic procedures and digital databases that have a symbolic description.

The "Dataist" works are not only unique art objects. They are algorithmic processes and data bases. The Dataist art works can appear as existing in a 3D space, and as moving in the time.


golden hour

(photography) A period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.


bass bar

bass bars (plural)
bassbar (alternative)
bass-bar (alternative)

(lutherie) A narrow length of wood affixed to, or occasionally carved from, the inside of the top plate of a violin-family instrument.


endbutton

endbuttons (plural)
end button (alternative)
end-button (alternative)

(lutherie) In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.

bouton

wooden plug in the end of the instrument


snow snake

en-noun

snow snake (countable and uncountable, plural snow snakes)

snow snakes (plural)
snowsnake (alternative)

(US, folklore) A fictional creature, a snake that is only active during winter months.


autoexpose

en-verb

autoexpose (third-person singular simple present autoexposes, present participle autoexposing, simple past and past participle autoexposed)

autoexposes (present singular third-person)
autoexposing (participle present)
autoexposed (participle past)
autoexposed (past)


mensur

This is a slightly odd mensur for instruments tuned to a modern pitch of A-440 as it is slightly short for an instrument in F, which would be more comfortable at 65 cm or 66 cm, and it is too long for an instrument in G, which is more comfortable at 60cm or 61cm.

2005, Daniel Larson, “A Set of Vihuelas: Matching Tone for Polyphonic Music”, in Lute Society of America Quarterly, volume 40, number 2, Lexington, Virginia: Lute Society of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

In general gut tensions run toward the high end for a given mensur at a diameter equal to an equivalent nylon string, which would seem consistent with the 20% or so higher density of gut.

2000 December 28, Dan O'Mara [username], “Gut vs Nylon string tension”, in rec.music.makers.bowed-strings (Usenet):

His works show reasonably accurate workmanship, but at times his violin-making production is characterised by models that are too personal, leading to the size of the mensur being too long.

2002, Roberto Codazzi, Cinzia Manfredini, editors, La liuteria lombarda del '900, Twentieth century Lombard violin making, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:

(lutherie) The measurement of the length of the vibrating string from the nut to the bridge.


baccoo

(folklore) A mischievous little male spirit in Caribbean folklore.


churile

(Ghana, folklore) The ghost of a woman who dies in childbirth, said to prowl in the darkness giving mournful cries.


diaperwork

(art) Surface decoration in the diaper style.


line scan

line scans (plural)
linescan (alternative)

(photography) A camera that produces such images.


Greek key

(art) A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.


photoemulsion

photographic emulsion
photographic emulsion


photographic emulsion

en-noun

photographic emulsion (plural photographic emulsions)

(photography) A colloid, containing light-sensitive material, that is coated onto a length of film for use in predigital photography


scioptic ball

(photography, chiefly historical) a universal joint allowing an optical instrument mounted on a ball to be swiveled to point anywhere in a wide arc


crushed strawberry

(art) A pinkish-red colour like strawberries that have been crushed.


lack-life

en-adj

lack-life (comparative more lack-life, superlative most lack-life)

more lack-life (comparative)
most lack-life (superlative)

What influence the decorative motives of Egypt and Assyria, imported by the Phoenicians, had upon the early artists of Greece, it is again, as yet, very difficult to say, and we have to glean such scanty information as we can from what exists of archaic Greek art in pre-Phoenician strata, compared with such ancient Phoenician remains as are entirely destitute of any admixture of Greek influence. Such is the surpassing value of these Phoenician shields, the most ancient metal shields yet discovered. They belong to an epoch when the Greek race was in its youth, when the springs of its mind were fresh, when it was most likely to be influenced by external agents, and such objects were the first to introduce the young and aspiring Greek to the rigid, severe, monotonous, mysterious, and impenetrable forms of Egypt, and to the dreamy, lack-life, symbolic and ideal creations of the Assyrians.

1888 August 7, Rev. Joseph Hirst, “Opening Address of the Antiquarian Section”, in The Archaeological Journal, volume 46, number 181, Royal Archaeological Institute, published 1889, pages 31–32:

(art, nonce word) Represented in such a way as to show important characteristics, rather than in a realistic or literal manner; stylized; abstract.


camera angle

(photography) The viewpoint from which something is photographed or filmed.


assemblagist

(art) One who constructs assemblages (a form of 3D collage).


varnishing day

(art) The final day before a public exhibition; originally the day when artists could apply a final coat of varnish to their paintings after they had been hung, now the day when artists can make finishing touches, make sure pictures have been hung the right way up etc., and meet their fellow artists.


evocationism

After outlining the desiderata that must be met by any acceptable theory, Levinson lists the main contenders as basing their analyses on (i) evocationism, (ii) make-believe, (iii) metaphor, (iv) judgment, and (v) appearance of expression

1999 Summer, S Davies, “Review: The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays”, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, volume 57, number 3:

Perhaps, therefore, Impressionism is not so accurate a word as Evocationism, by which I mean the rendering of a vision such as an object or an idea has evoked

1934, The Artist - Volumes 7-9, page 61:

Different from both, Dusyanta seems to espouse what may be termed as emancipated evocationism. He represents the privileged viewpoint of the artist critic, also its limitations and perils.

1991, Girdhari Lal Chaturvedi, Re-visiting Śākuntalam, page 113:

(art) An approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.


circulationism

In such a situation, Steyerl advocates, echoing Benjamin, an updated form of critical-cultural barbarism in the guise of a strategy of 'circulationism' – an emphasis on 'postproducing, launching, and accelerating' an image.

2018, Andrew McNamara, Surpassing Modernity: Ambivalence in Art, Politics and Society:

Here, for Steyerl, “circulationism” is an appropriate descriptor: What the Soviet avant‐garde of the twentieth century called productivism – the claim that art should enter production and the factory – could now be replaced by circulationism.

2019, Brad Buckley, A Companion to Curation, page 407:

(economics, art) An emphasis on circulating goods as opposed to producing them.


3D pen

(art) A pen-like tool which melts a special thread into three-dimensional models (3D statues).


plique-à-jour

From French plique-à-jour, literally "letting in daylight".

(art) A vitreous enamelling technique where the enamel is applied in cells, similar to cloisonné, but with no backing in the final product, so light can shine through the transparent or translucent enamel.


luminogram

(photography) An image produced by luminography


luminography

(photography) A form of photography that, instead of using a camera, exposes a photosensitive material to light that is modified by an intervening object


portholing

(photography) A circular vignette-like defect where the image fades at the borders.


madder lake

en-noun

madder lake (countable and uncountable, plural madder lakes)

(art) A colour mixed with either oil or water, made from madder.


pishtaco

pishtacos (plural)
pishtaku (alternative)

From a Quechua language term "pishtay", meaning "cut the throat of, cut up".

They are often told that the pishtaco is going to carry them off if they do not behave. Thus, they are taught to fear the mestizo and white man at an early age. The pishtaco also maintains conformity among adults. Individualism is not a norm ...

However, the pishtaco is not an Andean Minotaur. It is, rather, an indigenous Andean folk symbol of Spanish, and later criollo, colonialist oppression. Pishtacos are represented as white foreigners, ...

1997, Milos Kokotovic, Confronting Postmodernism:

For this part of the operation, the pishtaco is said to import specialized equipment from the United States, Germany, or Japan.

2005, Don Kulick, Anne Meneley, Fat, →ISBN:

This explains why the first pishtaco figures in the legend were priests and soldiers. As the power structure changed, so did the pishtaco figure. In later versions of the story he rode a horse and wore leather chaps like a rancher, ...

2008, Jennifer McLagan, Fat, →ISBN, page 217:

(mythology, folklore) A mythical white male demon in South American folklore, who steals and eats the bodyfat of indigenous South Americans, or cuts up their flesh to convert it into food.


autoluminography

(photography) The production of an image by placing a light-emitting object in direct contact with photographic film


tinty

en-adj

tinty (comparative more tinty, superlative most tinty)

more tinty (comparative)
most tinty (superlative)

(art) inharmoniously tinted; making poor use of colour


plasticism

en-noun

plasticism (usually uncountable, plural plasticisms)

The New York plasticism will be also the plasticism of Paris and Petrograd.

1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The dance, page 267:

But it also developed wonderfully in linear delineation, as seen in Seison's “Water-Drawing Ceremony”; in serene spatial constructivism, as seen in Gyoshu's “Tea Ceremony Room”; and in sharp and sensual plasticism as in Yuki's “Moonlit Night."

1969, A Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Oriental Arts:

The only essentiel difference is in the degree of plasticism : the mosaic architecture is rather flat and two-dimensional while the architecture of the miniature introduces chiaroscuro.

1973, Agostino Pertusi, Venezia E Il Levante Fino Al Secolo XV - Volume 2, page 288:

But even as the Messmer-Sullivan cartoons emphasized Felix's ingenious use of that plasticism—as we see in his ability to turn his tail or a graphic flourish like an exclamation point into a useful, narrative-furthering prop, thus all the more flattening out the world, making "everything in the drawn world. . . of the same stuff," as Leslie suggests (23) -- the early Mickeys seem far more intent on making space function within the narrative so that it might thereby reveal itself.

2010, J.P. Telotte, Animating Space: From Mickey to WALL-E, →ISBN, page 66:

While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the field of time-space.

2013, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art:

(art) The plastic quality of certain artworks, and the theory or movement of art that embodies this quality.


Fiddler's Green

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

Fiddlers' Green (alternative)
Fidlers' Green (alternative)

Sam Tyler: Where to now?
Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green.
Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.

2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:

(nautical, folklore) A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.


brunaille

From French brunaille, from brun (“brown”). Compare grisaille.

A corporate desire for identity and recognition also helps to explain the unusual coincidence of a traditional brunaille exterior in conjunction with a crowded, lively, visually striking interior painted in the most novel, fashionable, local style.

1984, Larry Silver, The Paintings of Quinten Massys, page 48:

(art) Consisting of shades of brown, painted or executed with shades of brown, brown monochrome.


brunaille

brunaille (countable and uncountable, plural brunailles)

Genre paintings in grisaille (grey monochrome) or brunaille (brown monochrome) by Adriaen van de Venne represent a special chapter in Dutch art history.

1986, Görel Cavalli-Björkman, Dutch and Flemish Paintings, volume 2, page 483:

(art) A method of painting or other work that uses shades of brown primarily or exclusively.

Paintings of this kind are known as brunailles – by analogy with grisailles, which are paintings done mainly in grey.

1996, Jeroen Giltaij, Jan Kelch, Praise of Ships and the Sea: The Dutch Marine Painters of the 17th Century, page 370:

(art) An artwork or study executed in this style.


Finlaycolor

From Finlay + color; devised by Englishman Clare L. Finlay.

The most exciting way of getting instant color was by a process called Finlaycolor, in which, in effect, three color-separation negatives were taken simultaneously by using a grid ruled with microscopic red, green and violet lines. One then made a positive, a lantern slide from this negative, and brought it into exact alignment with the grid. This was tricky, delicate, but when one had them in perfect register, the previously black-and-white slide would burst into full color.

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:

(photography, historical) An early additive colour photography process that could produce a picture in natural colour with a single exposure.


synthetist

(art) An artist working in the style of synthetism.


kionedon

From Ancient Greek κιονηδόν (kionēdón), from κίων (kíōn, “pillar”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “adverbial suffix”).

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion); in vertical lines from top to bottom.


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion)


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is vertical, as on a pillar (kion)


archaic smile

From archaic + smile, referring to the Archaic period of Ancient Greek art.

(Ancient Greece, art, sculpture, historical) A smiling facial expression commonly found on Greek statues of the Archaic period (circa 700–500 B.C.E.).

Ancient Greece; sculpture; Ancient Greece; sculpture


scary sharp

(woodworking) Of tools: sharpened with sandpaper instead of the conventional oilstone or waterstone, etc.


die plate

(metalworking) A type of die for cutting screw threads on male fasteners; it is arranged in the form of a plate of tool steel with a graduated series of holes, each being the die opening for a certain size of screw. A predecessor of today's tap and die sets, it is now considered an antique type of tool, no longer in common use but still sometimes desirable as a collectible among tool collectors.


verdaille

verdaille (countable and uncountable, plural verdailles)

Compare French vert (“green”), as well as English grisaille or brunaille, from French.

Unless the work of a skilled imitator, Pillement also executed an oil painting in monochromatic shades of olive green, called “Verdaille”, featuring a smaller procession of figures riding on elephants.

2006, Maria Gordon-Smith, Pillement, page 51:

Verdaille is a painting created entirely in green. Unlike other colourwork, in which a single hue is either tinted in lighter tones or shaded into darker tones, verdaille can involve many different hues.

2012 June 27, Sheila Singhal, “Elephant No. 269: Verdaille”, in An Elephant a Day:

(uncommon, art) A method of painting or other work which employs only varying shades of green, or work executed with this method.


fenodyree

(folklore) A little hairy sprite in the folklore of the Isle of Man.


rye wolf

(European folklore) An evil creature of German folklore lurking in the rye-fields.


Gubbins

(folklore) A half-savage race said to live in Devonshire, described by the pastoral poet William Browne, among others.


parallel palette

parallel palette (plural parallel palettes)

(art) A palette that is positioned close to, and parallel with, the surface being painted


mater dolorosa

mater dolorosa (plural mater dolorosas or matres dolorosae)

mater dolorosas (plural)
matres dolorosae (plural)

From Latin mater dolorosa (“sorrowful mother”).

bor

(art) The Virgin Mary represented as the sorrowing mother.


focusing cloth

focusing cloths (plural)
focussing cloth (alternative)

(photography, historical) A cloth thrown over a camera (and the operator's head and shoulders) to exclude all light except that which comes through the lens.


detailist

The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.

The detailist fills his canvas with work and interest; the full-souled painter concentrates his detail upon a few salient points.

1890, The Photo-beacon - Volume 2, page 86:

His canvases are worked over with painstaking care, not as the detailist works to delineate buttons and boot-straps, but for harmonies of tender color and the charm of reflected light.

1903, Harper's Monthly Magazine - Volume 107, page 638:

Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle and every crack in the blade became apparent.

1915, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Outdoor Sketching, page 62:

But when we come to examine the fundamental reasons for nature's supremacy over all art, even the noblest, we find it in the fact that nature is the transcendent detailist.

1915, Country Life in America - Volume 28, page 34:

(art) An artist who produces highly detailed work.


lens brush

(photography) a small brush used to clean dust off camera lenses.


monoscenic

I only like monoscenic comics like The Family Circus and Dennis the Menace.


photosimulation

(photography) A photographic image that has been computer-modified to show a not-yet existing feature


freeblown

His aim is to encourage the use of "freeblown glass" in contemporary craft work.

Freeblown vessels are made without the assistance of molds, and are often somewhat irregular in shape and exhibit a glossy surface.

1990, Louise M. DeCesare, Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York, page 65:

Today, our team of skilled glassmakers use the same authentic tools and techniques to produce the distinctive and highly original freeblown lead crystal glass.

2001, Victoria Pybus, Hand Made in Britain - The Visitors Guide, →ISBN, page 43:


telextender

(photography) An optical amplifier, used especially in amateur astronomy to magnify an image.


Hartlepool monkey

(folklore) A monkey, the only survivor of a French ship that foundered near Hartlepool during the Napoleonic Wars, that was supposedly tried and hanged as a spy.


grain size

(geology, photography) The size of a grain (particle) in a sediment or emulsion


cabinet card

(photography, historical) A style of photograph widely used for portraiture in the late 19th century, mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches).


silver bath

(photography) A solution of silver nitrate for sensitizing collodion plates for printing.


ringlight

en-noun

ringlight (countable and uncountable, plural ringlights)

Figures 2 and 6 are of the same specimens but photographed with a ringlight.

1960, University of Michigan. Museum of Paleontology -, Contributions - Volumes 15-16, page 128:

Until recently, ringlights have been chiefly associated with technical illustration, such as close-up photography in medicine and dentistry.

1980, David Brooks, Carl Shipman, Theodore DiSante, How to control & use photographic lighting, →ISBN, page 132:

Built-in ringlight flash provides virtually shadowless, wraparound illumination for inaccessible or elusive subjects.

1985, Eyes of Nikon: a comprehensive guide to Nikkor and Nikon series E lenses:

One of the characteristics of ringlight, when used as the only source, is its shadow. Because the light expands equally in all directions, it also throws an even shadow.

2014, Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers, →ISBN, page 151:

I had created a faux-ring light, and I was able to get a very cool ringlight effect for very little money.

2014, Benny Migs, Alternative Portraiture, →ISBN, page 100:

(photography) A light source in a ring or torus shape that prevents distinct shadows.


phototransparency

phototransparency (countable and uncountable, plural phototransparencies)


defish

en-verb

defish (third-person singular simple present defishes, present participle defishing, simple past and past participle defished)

defishes (present singular third-person)
defishing (participle present)
defished (participle past)
defished (past)

(photography, transitive) To process an image taken with a fisheye lens so as to remove the distortion.


Maid Marian

(European folklore) The love interest of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood; originally a shepherdess figure associated with May Day.


spark test

spark test (third-person singular simple present spark tests, present participle spark testing, simple past and past participle spark tested)

spark tests (present singular third-person)
spark testing (participle present)
spark tested (participle past)
spark tested (past)

From spark + test, due to the production of sparks in order to test for the character of a steel.

(metalworking) To test for the general character of a steel, when testing a piece of steel, by grinding it, producing sparks, and using the color of the sparks to determine its general classification.


slide scanner

(photography) A device used to produce a digital copy of a slide.


Gambrinus

The source of the legend of Gambrinus is uncertain and perhaps based on a mythical Germanic king Gambrivius. The etymology is unknown, but many explanations exist:
* a corruption of Jean Primus, John I, Duke of Brabant (1252–1294)
* Middle High German gambra (“germination of grain”)
* cambier, name given to brewers in the north of France in the Middle Ages

m+

(folklore) A legendary European culture hero celebrated as an icon of beer, brewing, joviality, and joie de vivre.


frameline

framelines (plural)
frame line (alternative)

(photography) A line in the viewfinder indicating the boundary of the image that will be captured.


werebeing

(folklore) Any shapeshifting creature, such as a werewolf or werebear.


biscuitry

en-noun

biscuitry (countable and uncountable, plural biscuitries)

If all goes well with the lathe and the biscuitry, there will be only a little filing and scraping required to smooth the transitions around the corners.

2000, Fine Woodworking - Issues 140-146, page 81:

(woodworking, uncountable) The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface.


phyllomorph

(art) A stylised representation of a leaf


colorcast

colorcast (countable and uncountable, plural colorcasts)

colorcasts (plural)
colourcast (alternative)

(photography) An undesirable tint of color affecting another color in a photograph, due to an incorrect balance.


oozlum bird

(humorous, folklore) A fictional bird said to fly backwards or in circles.


siderotype

(photography) A photographic print using a pigment based on iron


stereonegative

(photography) Either of a pair of negatives used to make stereoscopic photographs


fan-blast

(ironworking) The blast produced by a fan, as distinguished from that produced by a blowing-engine.


sauce crayon

(art) A soft black pastel used for backgrounds.


spring-heeled Jack

spring-heeled Jack (plural spring-heeled Jacks)

And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]

1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

Servant-girls who have just received their year's wages at Christmas will frequently profess themselves afraid to go home after dusk, because “there are so many o' these Spring-heeled Jacks about.”

1887, English Dialect Society, Publications, volume 21, number 53, page 367:

London and Edinburgh had their spring-heeled jacks long before they appeared in Lasswade in Johnny's time. As long ago as 1837 a real, flesh-and-blood ghost in the shape of a spring-heeled jack was caught by a London policeman […]

1953, John B. Cairns, Bright and early: a bookseller's memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade:

(historical, folklore) A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.


whole-length

A whole-length Picture of a Woman, by Van Dyck

1693, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of Mr. Lanckrinck, Lately Deceased; […], London: […] [A]t Mr. Smith’s […] and at Mr. Basset’s […] and at Mr. Lanckrinck’s […], page 7:

In the Great Gallery is a moſt admirable Ritratto of Cardinal Spada, a whole-length Figure, ſitting; by Guido.

1730, Edward Wright, Some Observations Made in Travelling Through France, Italy, &c. in the Years 1720, 1721, and 1722, London: […] Tho. Ward and E. Wicksteed, […], page 299:

[A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by Mʳˢ P. that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed over the Mantlepeice,^([sic]) caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir H. Denham—[…]

1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 170:


whole-length

(art) A portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.


scanography

Blend of scan + radiography or scanner + photography.

In 2009, she had her first exhibition at Tashkeel in Dubai where she debuted work using scanography, a process of creating photographic prints from layered images captured with a flatbed scanner.

2023, Sabrina DeTurk, Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(art) The process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the purpose of creating photographic prints.


Judd's dictum

(art) The position that anything is art as long as somebody calls it art.


large format

large format (countable and uncountable, plural large formats)

(photography) A photographic format of 4 × 5 inches (102 × 127 mm) or larger.


medium format

medium format (countable and uncountable, plural medium formats)

(photography) A photographic format in between full-frame or 35mm (36 × 24 mm) and large format (127 × 102 mm).


kalaga

Borrowed from Burmese ကန့်လန့်ကာ (kan.lan.ka, “curtain”).

bor

(art) An embroidered appliqué tapestry made of silk, flannel, felt, wool and lace, indigenous to Myanmar (Burma).


key light

key lights (plural)
keylight (alternative)

Age lines were drawn on McCarthy's face in red makeup, and when key lights with red filters were used, the lines were not visible.

2015, Don Presnell, Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964, page 57:

(photography, film, television) The most important light, used to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.


water core

(metalworking) A hollow core through which water may be passed.


ZLR

zoom-lens reflex
zoom-lens reflex#English

(photography) Initialism of zoom-lens reflex (“pertaining to the ZLR system, where a telephoto zoom lens is integrated into the camera body, which includes a reflex mirror for in-lens preview; of a camera system similar to an SLR”).


middle distance

en-noun

middle distance (plural middle distances)

The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

(art, photography) The central portion of a picture in terms of depth, between the foreground and background.


semifigure

(art) A partial human figure in ornamental design.


multicam

(videography, Internet slang) A video of one event created using footage of different cameras.


ideoplastic

(art) Being a form of symbolic art created by mental modification of natural artistic subjects.


bricolagist

(art) An artist who uses bricolage in the creation of art.


cloisonnism

(art) A school of postimpressionist painting


nonrepresentationalism

(art) A nonrepresentational approach to art.


swing-back

swing-backs (plural)
swingback (alternative)

(photography, historical) A device for adjusting the plate-holder of a camera to any desired angle.


stoichedon

From Ancient Greek στοιχηδόν (stoikhēdón), from στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “in the manner of”).

(historical, calligraphy) An epigraphical form in which the letters are arranged as rows and columns within a grid arrangement.


Moresco

(art, architecture, archaic) Moorish; Moresque


Satista

(obsolete, photography) Describing a photographic print process that used salts of silver, with smaller amounts of platinum and iron


dead colouring

The colours necessary for dead colouring are: common white, light ochre, brown ochre, burnt umber, Indian red, ivory black, and Prussian blue.

1829, Alexander Jamieson, A dictionary of mechanical science, arts, manufactures, and miscellaneous knowledge:

(art) The first broad outlines of a picture.


Little Master

(art, historical) Any of a group of German printmakers who produced finely detailed miniature prints in the first half of the 16th century.


scanscope

(photography) A device that converts glass slides into digital files


retrofocus

(photography, attributive) A wide-angle lens with an inverted telephoto configuration.


retrogarde

From retro- + garde. Doublet of rearguard.

(art, literature) Descriptive of an art movement, particularly in Slovenia, that looks back to the past, as opposed to avant-garde.


semi-effigy

(art) A representation of a figure seen at half-length only.


quarter-plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 3¼ by 4¼ inches.


whole plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 6½ by 8½ inches.


half-plate

(photography, historical) A photographic plate measuring 4¾ by 6½ inches in Britain (4¼ by 5½ in the US).


negatoscope

(obsolete, photography) A device used to display negatives, now only used to display x-ray images


colour field painting

colour field painting (countable and uncountable, plural colour field paintings)

(art) A style of abstract painting characterised by large, flat surfaces of solid colour


cubo-futurism

(art, historical) A Russian school of painting and sculpture, influenced by cubism and Italian futurism.


cubo-futurist

en-adj

cubo-futurist (comparative more cubo-futurist, superlative most cubo-futurist)

more cubo-futurist (comparative)
most cubo-futurist (superlative)

(art, historical) Relating to cubo-futurism.


cubo-futurist

(art, historical) An artist working in the style of cubo-futurism.


flatlay

(photography) A kind of photograph where objects are laid out on a flat surface and photographed perpendicularly from above.


flying white

zh-l

飛白／飞白 (fēibái)

(Chinese calligraphy) A kind of calligraphic technique that involves applying a relatively dry brush at high speed to create dry, streaky strokes.


Counter-Mannerism

The decisive factor in the origins of Colonial painting in Peru came a few years later from late Italian Mannerism and Counter-Mannerism.

1975, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors:

Nevertheless the artists did not create in "Counter-Mannerism" a wholly new stvle in the way that Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci were to do in the last decade of the century; it seems that, once trained in Mannerism, they could never entirely lose that touch of elegance and that beguiling preciosity which are still very evident in Barocci 's Deposition.

1978, Gary R. Walters, Federico Barocci, anima naturaliter, page 72:

Domenico Cresti (or Crespi), known as “il Passignano” (from the name of the district of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, near Florence, where he was born, 1559–1638), was a painter of the late-Renaissance or Counter-Mannerism style; he was educated by the Vallombrosan monks.

2019, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo:

(art) A trend in the late sixteenth century that rejected some of the distortions of Mannerism, returning to a more classicist emphasis on clarity.


fashion design

(fashion, art) The art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.

時裝設計 /时装设计

the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories


high-key

en-adj

high-key (comparative more high-key, superlative most high-key)

more high-key (comparative)
most high-key (superlative)
highkey (alternative)
high key (alternative)
highk (alternative)

Details are tremendously important in composing an outstanding high-key photograph.

1942 November, Victor Keppler, “Key to Good Pictures”, in Popular Photography, →ISSN, page 29:

(art, photography) Characterised by light tones and absence of shadow.


public art

(art) Any artwork planned and executed with the intention of being presented openly to the public, usually outside and accessible to all.