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...
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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"...
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a declamation technique known as word painting (text painting or tone painting) to make musical notes illustrate word meanings, trying literally to paint...
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Edward Ruscha (section Word paintings)
first paintings (SU (1958–1960), Sweetwater (1959)) this is the most widely known, and exemplifies Ruscha's interests in popular culture, word depictions...
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Colin McCahon (section Word paintings)
nourishment. McCahon's large-format "word paintings" combine his religious and abstraction tendencies. His early religious paintings created a very literal connection...
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Fresco (redirect from Fresco painting)
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...
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madrigal, some of the settings are Petrarchan in versification and word-painting, which became compositional characteristics of the later madrigal. The...
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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...
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textures were, by current standards, old-fashioned at the time, his word painting proves his acquaintance with the newest Italian music. He was employed...
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secco recitative, "Thy hand, Belinda", is accompanied by continuo only. Word painting is applied on the text "darkness" and "death" which is presented with...
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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...
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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...
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Street painting, also known as screeving, pavement art, street art, and sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering artistic designs on pavement...
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ranging from the lightest to the most serious styles, packed with word-painting, chromaticism, and other characteristics of the late madrigal style...
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Nighthawks (Hopper) (redirect from The Diner Painting)
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...
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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...
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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...
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by the Thanjavur Painting, Nathdwara paintings are of different sub-styles of which Pichhwai paintings are the most popular. The word Pichwai derives from...
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Mural (redirect from Mural painting)
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...
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A "Doom painting" or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgement in a medieval church. This is the moment in Christian...
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The Starry Night (redirect from The Starry Night (painting))
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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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Chinese art, where literati painting usually depicted imaginary views, while professional artists painted real views. The word "landscape" entered the modern...
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The Wounded Deer (redirect from The Wounded Deer (painting))
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...
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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"...
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Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or...
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