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
 *ne
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

(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 (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 (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

Coordinate term: full-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

Coordinate term: blue 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


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).


Lethwei

From Burmese လက်ဝှေ့ (lakhwe., “boxing”).

(art) Lethwei, Burmese bareknuckle boxing, traditional combat sport from Myanmar.


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

(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.


fundamental painting

De Keyser's work from this period can be unequivocally linked to the so-called Fundamental Painting that was prominent in the art world at the time.

2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19:

Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]

2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1:

(art) An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.


all-over painting

en-noun

all-over painting (countable and uncountable, plural all-over paintings)

(art, uncountable) The non-differential treatment of the surface of a painted artwork, so that it is uniform rather than divided into distinct sections.

(art, countable) An individual painting in this style.


anonymous sculpture

anonymous sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural anonymous sculptures)

Calque of German Anonyme Skulpturen; the term was used by Bernd and Hilla Becher, who photographed such structures.

(art) Any industrial structure whose architecture is thought to have unintended artistic qualities.


factography

(art) A movement originating in the Soviet Union, promoting the use of film and photography for documentary purposes by the working class.


retinal art

(art) Artworks designed to please the eye, without philosophical or political content.


Seelie

From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.

Okay, so that sounded like the Seelie hated the Unseelie and vice versa. But not quite. There was something more here. I puzzled over it several moments. Did it mean the Seelie couldn't actually touch the Unseelie, and vice versa? I read on.

2008, Karen Marie Moning, Faefever: Fever Series, Delacorte Press, →ISBN:

We like the Seelie court and the humans lived, loved and laughed. As the war between the Seelie and the Unseelie escalated and the Seelie gained the upper hand we Unseelie were forced to hide in the shadows and fear for our lives.

2015, Selena Thana, Sidhe Megalomania: Tuath Dé - Tome 4, K. George, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) A benevolent or beneficially-inclined fairy.


Seelie

en-adj

Seelie (comparative more Seelie, superlative most Seelie)

more Seelie (comparative)
most Seelie (superlative)

“Like Sleeping Beauty, you mean,” I said. Henry nodded. His handsome face was very worried, and I didn't know him long enough to read him that well. “They came and saw the garden, and it was very Seelie, my lord. More than that, none.”

2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

“Altruism is very Seelie.” “The sidhe were all Seelie once,” Shock said. “Either we resign ourselves to that part of our history or we go mad. I do not fight my impulses toward love and beauty the way my father does. But enough of that.”

2018, Mishell Baker, Impostor Syndrome, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the Seelie; benevolent (as a fairy, etc).


Unseelie

Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.

bor+

(fantasy, folklore) A malevolent or malicious fairy.


Unseelie

en-adj

Unseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)

more Unseelie (comparative)
most Unseelie (superlative)

Unseelie wights

“That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.”
“I cannot always choose how the magic will come.”
“It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.

“I am very Unseelie Tuatha Dé. Almost one hundred percent, in fact. Only a drop of Seelie to muddy the pool. Do you have a problem with that, Shining One?”

2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).


geometry of fear

Coined in 1952 by Herbert Read in his description of the work of the eight British artists represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia of 1952.

(art, historical) The artistic style of an informal group or school of young British sculptors in the years after the Second World War, characterized by angular, jagged forms thought to reflect post-war angst and guilt.


beauty shot

Cut to beauty shot of skin care products with beauty show going on in the background. Cut to business woman on street.

1983, John A. Quelch, Paul Farris, Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management, →ISBN, page 71:

(advertising, photography) A close-up of the product being advertised.


snare-picture

(art) A kind of artwork, introduced by Daniel Spoerri, in which objects found in chance positions (such as cutlery and crockery after a meal) are permanently fixed in those positions.


speedlight

(photography) A flashgun that is not fixed to a camera.


flash pack

(photography) A device attached to a camera to provide a flash.


Proletkult

From Russian Пролетку́льт (Proletkúlʹt).

bor

Пролетку́льт

(art, historical) An experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms by creating a new, revolutionary working-class aesthetic drawing inspiration from the construction of modern industrial society in backward, agrarian Russia.


hard light

Maybe at first they thought that they wanted hard light, but after the shoot begins, they start asking for me to minimize shadows, and by the end of the shoot, I may end up firing a softbox through a scrim (FYI, that means extra, extra, extra soft light).

2017, Nick Fancher, Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light: A Photographer's Guide to Shaping Hard Light, Rocky Nook, Inc., →ISBN:

(photography) Focused light that produces crisp, sharply-defined shadows, with less transition between illumination and shadow than soft light.


chemigram

(art) A form of experimental artwork made by painting with chemicals on photographic paper or similar.


cinetization

cinetizations (plural)
cinetisation (alternative)

For example, cinetizations of the Pan Am Building or the George Washington Bridge show these structures in a state of collapse.

1978, Linda Konheim Kramer, Prints from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, page 12:

(art) A distorted image created by removing portions of an original image and reassembling the remainder at disjointed angles.


cool art

(art) A form of impersonal, geometric abstract art.


auricular style

Coined with reference to the flowing figures of the style, which sometimes resemble the human ear.

Later, following the general tendency towards a more 'painterly' taste, came the soft Ohrmuschel or auricular style of about 1620 and after, characterized by forms like parts of conch shells or the gristle of an ear.

1965, Eberhard Hempel, translated by Elisabeth Hempel and Marguerite Kay, Baroque Art and Architecture in Central Europe: Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Hungary/Czechoslovakia/Poland (The Pelican History of Art), volume Z22, Baltimore: Penguin Books, translation of original in German, →OCLC, page 32:

The choice and treatment of the motifs which form the inner ornamental border - rams' heads and drapery - suggest a Northern goldsmith familiar with the early auricular style.

1971 January, Hugh MacAndrew, “A Silver Basin Designed by [Bernardo] Strozzi”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 113, number 814, Burlington Magazine Publications, →JSTOR, page 11:

The auricular style was created by two members of the Utrecht goldsmithing family of van Vianen.

1976, J[ohn] F[orrest] Hayward, Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism, 1540-1620, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, →OCLC, page 290:

The auricular style appears to have come to Northern Europe via the engravings of Hendrick Goltzius, who may have seen it in Tuscany during his visit to Italy in 1591.

1984, Paul Mitchell, “Italian Picture Frames, 1500—1825: A Brief Survey”, in Furniture History, volume 20, Furniture History Society, →JSTOR, page 26:

The subtlety and refinement of the auricular style as practised by the Van Vianens plainly appealed very considerably to Charles [I, King of England], not least because they were so different from the humdrum or conservative Late Mannerist style of English goldsmith's work. For if Christian [van Vianen] was not an innovator, yet he was at his best a most excellent workman in the auricular style.

1989, Ronald Lightbown, “Charles I and the art of the goldsmith”, in Arthur MacGregor, editor, The Late King's Goods: Collections, Possessions and Patronage of Charles I in the Light of the Commonwealth Sale Inventories, London: Alistair McAlpine, →ISBN, page 239:

JHM B 96 Basin [...] In the centre section of the oval plate there is an embossed relief showing the judgement of Paris. The broad rim is formed in auricular style with shells and has a scalloped edge.

1995 January, Edward van Voolen, Irene Faber, Annette Weber, “Jewish Ceremonial Silver from Germany in the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam”, in The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, volume 40, number 1, →DOI, page 268:

An important founding element was a form of late Mannerist ornament now called auricular, named after the fleshy parts of the ear, which it somewhat resembles. The auricular style, which fully emerged in the earliest years of the seventeenth century, sprang from an interest in fleshy forms, shells and scaly shapes, which began in the Low Countries in the 1550s, inspired by a fashion for dripping grottoes inhabited by scaly creatures.

2009, Evonne Levy, “The Cornaro Chapel”, in Michael Snodin, Nigel Llewellyn, editors, Baroque, 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, London: V&A Publishing, →ISBN, page 106:

(art, historical) An ornamental style of the first half of the 17th century, characterized by stylized and softly flowing abstract shapes in relief.


earshell work

Coined with reference to the flowing figures of the style, "in which undulating, slithery and boneless forms occasionally carry a suggestion of the inside of an ear or of a conch shell."

The earshell work is alternately sinewy and muscular, picturesque and doughy, which characterizes the development of this decorative style, in its early stages during the first decades of the seventeenth century and reveals the birth of the style.

1986, Hans Soop, The Power and the Glory: The Sculptures of the Warship Wasa, Almqvist och Witsell, →ISBN, page 63:

Seventeenth century Dutch and German Renaissance styles often feature grotesques, as well as what was then a new artistic element, earshell work, also known as auricular ornamentation or knorpelwerk in German.

2018, Leticia Pinheiro Lima, Karolina Pallin, “The whipstaff mascaron: symbolism and the making of space in a 17th century Swedish warship.”, in The Society for Maritime and Historical archaeology’s conference 2018, page 2:

(art, historical) Synonym of auricular style


lobate style

Adam [van Vianen]'s suppleness is not only equalled, but even surpassed by [Joannes] Lutma. In fact, the lobate style, if it was not Lutma's invention, reached its highest perfection in his work.

1961, J. W. Frederiks, “III. The Baroque Style. A. The Lobate Style. North-Holland. Amsterdam. Joannes Lutma Sr.”, in Dutch Silver: Embossed Ecclesiastical and Secular Plate from the Renaissance until the End of the Eighteenth Century, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 45:

The auricular or lobate style, known in Holland as Kwabornament and in Germany as Knorpelwerk, appears to be the only ornamental style which was developed mainly by silversmiths and found its fullest and most notable expression in silver.

1971, Hugh Honour, “Paulus van Vianen (c. 1568—1613)”, in Goldsmiths & Silversmiths (Great Craftsmen), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 97:

The two-handled cup and cover by the Hound Sejant maker at Wadham College, Oxford, to which he compared it, shows a similar tentative application of the lobate style to an essentially English form.

1993, Ellenor M. Alcorn, “58. Two-Handled Cup and Cover, London, ca. 1665, Gold, 60.534a,b”, in English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Volume I. Silver Before 1697, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Distributed by Northeastern University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

The ornament in this window comprises not only Netherlandish grotesque with its characteristic combination of strapwork and scrollwork but also classical motifs in the two friezes. The two empty cartouches in the lower register (fig. II) moreover herald an entirely new fashion, that of the auricular or lobate style.

1997, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, “Hendrick de Keyser: Draftsman and Designer of Stained Glass”, in Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, volume 25, number 4, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 292:

The smooth, kneaded, almost unfinished appearance of the heart-shaped relief ornament is reminiscent of the lobate style of relief decoration, known as kwabornament, which was popular in the first half of the seventeenth century.

2009, Natalie Zemon Davis, Deborah L. Krohn, Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta Van Varick, New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 232:


cyclogram

(photography) A photograph of a moving object using an intermittent light source (such that its path appears as a dotted line)


metamorphosality

(art) A major change in style of a painter


image sensor

(photography) A sensor that detects and conveys information used to make an image.


kit-cat

kit-cats (plural)
kitcat (alternative)
kitkat (alternative)
kit-kat (alternative)

So called because the size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of London's 18th-century Kit-Cat Club, said to have been named after innkeeper Christopher Catt.

(historical, art) A short portrait, measuring 28 or 29 by 36 inches, less than half-length, but including the hands.

Godfrey Kneller
John Vanbrugh
Kit-Cat Club
kit-cat portrait


synthetism

(art) A style of postimpressionism that aims to synthesize varioous elements: the outward appearance of the thing depicted, the artist's feelings about it, and aesthetic considerations.


featherboard

(woodworking) A flat grooved piece of wood or other material used to hold the workpiece in position.


zeroist

Let us admit at once that the author has made out a case against the zeroist who uses words as a squid uses its color-sac — to becloud vision.

1929, Printers' Ink - Volume 147, page 154:

What are you talking about Ali this is the text we are creating it verbally we are the text we do not exist either we are a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things, an etherised unauthorised other.

1975, Christine Brooke-Rose, Thru, page 155:

(art) An artist who is part of the movement called zeroism; An artist whose works have no message or meaning.


teleconversion

(photography) The enlargement of an image achieved with a teleconverter lens.


turning tool

(woodworking) A handheld tool for woodturning.


stereocamera

(photography) Alternative form of stereo camera


stereo camera

(photography) A camera, fitted with two lenses, that can produce stereoscopic photographs


hypostain

en-verb

hypostain (third-person singular simple present hypostains, present participle hypostaining, simple past and past participle hypostained)

hypostains (present singular third-person)
hypostaining (participle present)
hypostained (participle past)
hypostained (past)

(photography) To accidentally stain with hypo


speedbooster

(photography) A secondary lens mounted between the camera and a photographic lens so as to reduce the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens while concentrating the light rays on a smaller area.


ROB

(photography) Region of background (in digital images).


Modiglianiesque

(art) Relating to or characteristic of Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian Jewish painter and sculptor.

modiglianesco

relating to or characteristic of Amedeo Modigliani


scribing block

scribing blocks (plural)
scriber block (alternative)

A scribing block is seldom dispensed with in the amateur's workshop, excepting in cases where its very existence is unknown.

1883 July, “Surface Gauges or Scribing Blocks”, in Amateur Mechanics, page 213:

By testing various parts of a line with the scribing block let the boys see that the line drawn is parallel to the surface plate.

1903, J. S. Miller, Teacher's Handbook of Manual Training: Metal Work, page 29:

The operation is to move the scribing block from end to end of the work and on both sides of it, packing it up until the upper surface is level, taking care, if the work does not lie level and steady upon the table, to insert wedges in the necessary places so that the work will lie firmly and not move during the operation of marking.

2013, Joshua Rose, The Complete Practical Machinist, page 322:

(metalworking) A device for scribing (marking) lines at a specific height from the base of an object, prior to machining.


word art

(art) Artistic forms, such as concrete poems and visual poems, that use words as visual elements rather than merely to convey verbal meaning.

WordArt

a technology for creating stylized text effects in wordprocessing


mixed media

(art) An assemblage or collage using two or more different materials


outsider art

Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.

coin

Outsider Art is increasingly recognized as a representation of the purest and most direct form of artistic creation.

2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48:

The concepts of raw art and outsider art were typical of a time when oppositional politics still infused artistic and academic discourses.

2014, Ian Buchanan, Lorna Collins, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 57:

Inherent in all artistic activity, these dialogical mechanisms become particularly striking in outsider art and can serve as a basis for fighting stigma.

2015, Ekaterina Sukhanova, Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:

The principal problem with Outsider Art is the most obvious: it is so often so bad.

2015, Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner, Fashionable Art, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 160:

Outsider art could not be stopped. Once its greatness — and its market potential — was understood, the insider art world opened the flood gates and here we are.

2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(art) Art by untrained artists, outside of the institutional mainstream.


hot roll

en-verb

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

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

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


gold size

en-noun

gold size (countable and uncountable, plural gold sizes)

gold sizes (plural)
goldsize (alternative)

Whatsoever you would gild must be first drawn with a gold size.

1735, Dictionarium Polygraphicum, volume I:

Gold size […] is drying oil mixed with calcined red ochre.

1842, William Thomas Brande, A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art:

(art) A size (or viscous wash) put down on a surface on which gold leaf is to be applied.


eccentric abstraction

(art) A style of abstract sculpture that suggests organic forms.


mimeticist

(art, literature) One who takes a mimetic approach; a proponent of mimesis.


stamp art

(art) Artwork, typically a mosaic, made from postage stamps.


Mary Gregory

After Mary Gregory (1856–1908), American artist who created such pieces.

(art) A style of decorated glass painted in white enamel, typically with figures of children at play.


pistolgraphy

From pistol + -graphy, coined by the inventor Thomas Skaife (1806-1876).

(historical, photography) The use of an early miniature camera shaped like a pistol.


arterati

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(informal, art) People who are considered the elite in the world of art.


all'antica

From Italian all'antica (“in the style of antiquity”).

In adapting Joshua Reynolds's concept of the ‘historicizing portrait’, taking up Van Dyck or Oriental fashions and elevating all'antica garb to fashion, her portraits were considered particularly ‘fashionable’.

2020, Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelica Kauffman, Munich: Hirmer, page 12:

(art, architecture) In a classical style; based on classical models.


bacteriography

From bacterio- + -graphy. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented the process.

(art, photography, microbiology) The art of creating pictures by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriograph

From bacterio- + -graph. From forming pictures out of bacteria. Coined by Zachary Copfer, who invented it.

(art, photography, microbiology) A picture created by growing bacteria and using a light mask to selectively sterilize regions.


bacteriogram

(art, photography, microbiology) An image formed by growing bacteria on a previously used photographic substrate


high camp

Coordinate term: low camp

But rather than drawing on extant rich stories about female superheroes, contemporary comic-based movies either downplay their powers and their personalities or rewrite them as trashy high camp.

2008 September 19, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Alyssa Rosenberg, “Why is Hollywood ignoring She-Hulk?”, in The Atlantic:

A “tropical melodrama” is how the marketing materials bill “The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão.” If that sounds about the most high-camp subgenre ever devised, Karim Aïnouz’s ravishing period saga lives up to the description […]

2019 May 25, Guy Lodge, “Film Review: ‘The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão’”, in Variety:

(art, often attributively) A sophisticated form of camp.


hard-edge painting

hard-edge painting (countable and uncountable, plural hard-edge paintings)

Coined by curator and art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of certain Californian painters.

(art) A style of painting having abrupt transitions between areas of (often plain) color.


naivism

(art) A simple, apparently childish style in art.


naivist

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


double coding

double coding (countable and uncountable, plural double codings)

(art, architecture) A mixture of postmodern techniques with traditional styles.


MLU

MLU (countable and uncountable, plural MLUs)

(photography) Initialism of mirror lock-up.


plate-carrier

The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(photography, historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.


draw through

en-verb

draw through (third-person singular simple present draws through, present participle drawing through, simple past drew through, past participle drawn through)

draws through (present singular third-person)
drawing through (participle present)
drew through (past)
drawn through (participle past)

(art) To keep in mind the entire shape of an object as it is rendered artistically (including the parts of the object that will be covered in the final piece)


hotshoe

(photography) Alternative form of hot shoe


motorwind

(photography) A feature that allows a rapid succession of photographs to be taken with the release held down


brute de forge

brut de forge (alternative)
brut-de-forge (alternative)
brute-de-forge (alternative)

(metalworking) A forging technique to shape metal to its final form by working it through forging only, and leaving that as the finished surface, with only sanding or grinding what is necessary for function.

(metalworking, proscribed) Forge texturing, a metal finish, where the finished surface leaves the forge and hammering marks in place without grinding, sanding, polishing it away, except where such activity is necessary.


actinautographic

(obsolete, photography) That produces a developable impression on light-sensitive material without contact


actinautography

(obsolete, photography) The production of an actinautographic image


chlorobromide

(photography) A photographic paper containing such silver salts; a print made on such paper.


serial art

(art) A style of art in which uniform elements or objects are assembled upon strict modular principles.


pictology

Introduced by M. M. van Dantzig, presumably picture + -o- + -logy.

(art) A scientific approach to measuring and analysing the characteristic features of artworks.


aspective

Historical events can also be depicted in aspective art but the artist has no alternative scheme to show that this is a non-recurrent event.

1986, Roger Neich, The Development of New Zealand Maori Figuritive Painting, page 227:

The transformation of the Greek myths into a tragic representation itself corresponds to the passage from aspective to perspective.

1993, Jean-Joseph Goux, Oedipus, Philosopher, page 128:

The differences between perspective and aspective approaches to a subject result in significantly different pieces of art. "Depending on where the viewer places himself the sides are foreshortened, the angles are distorted, and the line bedomes finer as distance increases; in painting the colours and the shadows change, while an aspective artist will normally only render local colours without shadows."

2011, Bennie H. Reynolds III, Between Symbolism and Realism:

(art) Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.


aspective

This unusual sketch from the Valley of the Kings depicts a queen or perhaps a goddess riding into battle in a chariot against a male opponent. She and her adversary are driven by smaller charioteers, according to the laws of aspective."

1978, William H. Peck, Egyptian Drawings:

(art) The techniques that make art aspective as opposed to perspective.


hero shot

The meat edges, as shown in our hero shot, can be styled to create interest and depth.

2012, Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee, Food Styling for Photographers, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 102:

(advertising, photography) Synonym of beauty shot


discstone

(art) A carved stone object like a ringstone but without the central hole.


hardface

hardface (third-person singular simple present hardfaces, present participle hardfacing, simple past and past participle hardfaced)

hardfaces (present singular third-person)
hardfacing (participle present)
hardfaced (participle past)
hardfaced (past)

(metalworking) To apply a harder or tougher material to (a base metal) by welding.


ring flash

(photography) A circular electronic flash that fits around a camera lens.


ring light

Coordinate term: ring flash

So-called selfie ring lights have been big business. “A small ring light will help to lift the complexion and bring radiance to counteract any shadows that may appear,” says Hayley Hall, a beauty influencer who has a YouTube channel and more than 27,000 Instagram followers.

2020 April 24, Ellie Violet Bramley, quoting Hayley Hall, “Let there be light: the new must-have for celebrities in lockdown”, in The Guardian:

In person, Huff looks exactly as she does on her massively popular Instagram account, her sheer foundation and subtle bronze eyeshadow catching the spotlight just like they do the ring light.

2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:

(photography) A continuous circular strip of light around a camera lens (either directly on the rim or as a standalone item) for the purpose of evenly illuminating the subject.