Quoi qu'il fasse pour se raffiner, il y aurait toujours quelque felure, quelque
craquelure regrettable dans sa vie.
This typical ageing effect can be recreated with crackle glaze, crackle varnish and
craquelure. Ideal for most furniture including doors and wooden panelling.
Crackle Glaze And
Craquelure Ideal for most furniture including doors and wooden panelling, these finishes give furniture an appearance of cracked paint or varnish.
Bent over the sink and the scattered archaeological remains of your backlogged solitary meals: plates used a few times over, now messy palettes of meat-juice earthtones and sticky vegetable texture, knives smeared with hardened peanut butter or the intricate
craquelure of old cream cheese, the red-wash mineral deposits of the wine glasses.
His most recent exploration of technique is ink-jet photography onto which he may apply a thin veil of oil paint and infuse a "
craquelure" effect to convey notions of age and time.
The author stresses the difficulty posed by the proportions of oil to the other ingredients which left its impact on Leonardo's early paintings, all of which are marred by the subsequent wrinkling of the paint surface that led to surface
craquelure. Verrocchio's lack of experience in fresco would seem equally relevant to discussions of Leonardo's technique in his Last Supper in Milan.
Note: If you want an antique look for your photograph box, use only one coat of acrylic varnish, followed by a
craquelure finish.
As soon as the visitor turns into the Marley Gallery, three close-eyed saints by Simone Martini return his gaze through a
craquelure of gold leaf.
The later portraits range from more contemporary and down-home if defiant images of the artist at work, through the Titianesque "Prince of Painters" (94) depicted in the monumental 1658 self-portrait in New York, to the cackling old jokester who laughs at the
craquelure of his mortality in the "poignant and ironic" canvas in Cologne (101-4).
These gave the artist occasion to paint rusty hinges, nail holes, scratches, graffiti, chipped and peeling paint and-interestingly in terms of the tradition-the sort of
craquelure to which paint is subject, leaving the viewer to figure out whether Harnett's paint is afflicted by it or merely represents it.
The seams of the abutments formed ghost verticals, affording, at length, a certain disarming
craquelure. Of these rationalist panels, a single narrow one, #36, 1974, is the exception that proves the rule; it picts, as it were--not depicts--an exploded letter K, arms akimbo, thus ostentatiously differentiating itself from the larger group of paintings.