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Record 1 1985-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Painting (Arts)
DEF

Marked by or tending toward an openness of form which is not linear and in which sharp outlines are wholly or nearly wholly lacking ...

OBS

Baroque ... The expression of substance by the use of colour and contrast of light ("painterliness") distinguishes the style from the linear preoccupations of Mannerism and Rococo ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Peinture (Arts)
CONT

Baroque. Le style classique est linéaire, il s'attache aux limites de l'objet en le définissant et en l'isolant. Le style baroque est pictural (...)

CONT

Linéaire et pictural. (...) Le caractère pictural (ou, en ce cas spécial : pittoresque) semble inhérent [à certains objets].

OBS

Les vedettes "pictoral" et "pittoresque" décrivent une qualité particulière de l'art baroque et leur acception habituelle ne s'applique pas ici.

Spanish

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