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IMAGE PLACEMENT [3 records]

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Record 1 1997-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

The turning of a photographic image as to right and left position, achieved either with optical reversing devices, by "flopping" the negative for stripping, or by placement of the image in a transparency-holder during photography therefrom.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
DEF

Opération de report, d'impression ou de photogravure ayant pour effet de fournir une image à l'envers, le côté droit de l'original venant se reproduire à gauche, et le côté gauche se présentant à droite.

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Micrographics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Micrographie

Spanish

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Record 3 1980-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Arts
CONT

Stain painting. Stain painters apply very diluted acrylic paints(...) to unsized, unstretched cotton duck canvas. The liquid paint is poured, spilt or flooded on to the surface(...) The unstretched canvas is sometimes folded or pleated to create design variations. On completion canvases are stretched, a process which presents the Stain painter with the problem of placement, that is, the relating of the image to the shape of support. Diluted paint soaks into cloth and therefore stain paintings resemble dyed fabric more than they do traditional oil paintings.

Key term(s)
  • Washington colour school
  • colour-field painting
  • process art
  • staining process

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts plastiques
DEF

Technique de peinture non figurative, qui apparue aux États-Unis, s'est répandue à Paris, et de là en Europe vers 1950. (...) consiste à recouvrir, selon l'impulsion ou l'instinct de l'artiste, la surface du tableau de taches de peinture.

Spanish

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