The painting technique

Акварель – water-colour (a painting done with a pigment or colouring matter that is mixed with water).

Витраж- stained glass; glass coloured in any various ways and used as for church windows.

Гравюра – engraving [ıng`reıvıŋ] – a picture printed from an engraved metal plate.

Гравюра на дереве (ксилография) – woodcut- a print made from a wooden block engraved with a design (xylography [zaı`ləgrəfı:]).

Гравюра на линолеуме (линогравюра) – linocut [`laınɔkʌt] – a print made from a design cut into the surface of a block of linoleum.

Графика – graphic art; black-and-white art.

Литография – lithography [lı`θɔgrəfı:] – a process for printing patterns, pictures from a piece of stone or metal. A lithograph – a picture made by lithography.

Гобелен – tapestry [`tæpıstrı] – a heavy cloth woven by hand or machinery with decorative design and pictures and used as a wall hanging, furniture covering, etc.

Глиптика – glyptics [`glıptıks] – the art of carving or engraving designs on gems, etc.

- Инталия – intaglio[ın`ta:lıou] – the art of making a picture, decoration by cutting a pattern deeply into the surface of a hard substance, esp. a jewel.

- Камея – cameo [`kæmıəu] – a piece of jewellery consisting of a raised shape or figure on the background of a small fine flat stone of a different colour.

Гуашь – gouache [gua:∫] – a way of painting with opaque colours ground in water and mixed with a preparation of gum; a pigment of this sort.

Масляная живопись – oil painting – the art of painting in oil colours, a colour or paint made by grinding a pigment in oil, esp. linseed oil.

Мозаика – mosaic [mə`zeıık] – the art of making pictures or designs by inlaying small bits of coloured stone, glass, tile, etc. in mortar.

Офорт – etching [et∫ıŋ] – the art of producing drawings or design on plates of metal, glass, etc. by the action of acid; a print made from this.

Панно – panel [`pæn`l] – any picture very much longer than it is wide.

Пастель – pastel [`pæstl], crayon [`kreıən] – a small stick of a solid chalklike substance made of powdery colouring matter used for drawing; a picture drawn using this substance; any soft light colour.

Пленэр – plain air [pleınεər] technique – the art of painting in the open air to depict atmospheric changes.

Темпера – tempera [`tempərə] – the paint in which pigments are mixed with egg, esp. egg yolk.

Фреска – mural painting, fresco [`freskou] – a picture made by painting in water colour on a surface of a wall, made of wet plaster.

Экслибрис – book plate – a label, often specially designed, pasted in a book to identify its owner.

Эстамп – print: an image created by pressing a special piece of wood, metal, etc. with a raised design on it onto paper or another surface.

 


4. Выразительные средства (законы) живописи