Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's...

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix"...

a declamation technique known as word painting (text painting or tone painting) to make musical notes illustrate word meanings, trying literally to paint...

first paintings (SU (1958–1960), Sweetwater (1959)) this is the most widely known, and exemplifies Ruscha's interests in popular culture, word depictions...

nourishment. McCahon's large-format "word paintings" combine his religious and abstraction tendencies. His early religious paintings created a very literal connection...

plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco (Italian: affresco) is derived from the...

madrigal, some of the settings are Petrarchan in versification and word-painting, which became compositional characteristics of the later madrigal. The...

the City" (2005) in Manhattan. In the other kind of word art, as exemplified by the word paintings of Christopher Wool, text forms the actual artistic...

secco recitative, "Thy hand, Belinda", is accompanied by continuo only. Word painting is applied on the text "darkness" and "death" which is presented with...

Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting is a 1966 conceptual artwork by the Japanese artist Yoko Ono. The work is made from paper, glass, a metal frame, a metal...

textures were, by current standards, old-fashioned at the time, his word painting proves his acquaintance with the newest Italian music. He was employed...

Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. Wool began to create word paintings in the late 1980s, reportedly...

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added...

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...

shown on Moss's blog. Moss decided that Hopper should be taken at his word: the painting was merely "suggested" by a real-life restaurant, he had "simplified...

The word "art" is therefore both a verb and a noun, as is the word "painting". Work of art – aesthetic physical item or artistic creation. A painting is...

parts of the work. This is an English madrigal. Farmer uses clever word painting. For example, in the opening line "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone"...

meaning "wall painting". This word is related to murus, meaning "wall". Murals of sorts date to Upper Paleolithic times such as the cave paintings in the Lubang...

by the Thanjavur Painting, Nathdwara paintings are of different sub-styles of which Pichhwai paintings are the most popular. The word Pichwai derives from...

ranging from the lightest to the most serious styles, packed with word-painting, chromaticism, and other characteristics of the late madrigal style...

note on the last syllable of the text—another example of word painting, since the final Hebrew word, Yaḥad, means "together" or, more precisely, "as one"...

The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from...

as in portrait, still life, and landscape painting. The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and histoire in French, meaning...

Apocalypse Now is a 1988 painting by the American artist Christopher Wool, widely regarded as among the most important of his "word paintings" created in the late...

Street painting, also known as screeving, pavement art, street art, and sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering artistic designs on pavement...

strikes down from a white cloud. The word "carma" (karma) is written in the bottom left corner of the painting, after the artist's signature and the...

Chinese art, where literati painting usually depicted imaginary views, while professional artists painted real views. The word "landscape" entered the modern...

Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily...

and the English term still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and...

The striking sound of the augmented triad lends itself to effective word painting, especially when conveying strong emotion. The first song in Robert...