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masterPrimary, controlling. See master-slave communications and master file. master 1. a great artist, esp an anonymous but influential artist 2. the principal of some colleges 3. a graduate holding a master's degree 4. the chief executive officer aboard a merchant ship 5. Chiefly Brit a male teacher 6. an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature subordinate to a judge 7. a machine or device that operates to control a similar one 8. the heir apparent of a Scottish viscount or baron
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Finally, in many cases, the print is adorned with a colored-paper passe-partout whose childish embellishments would seem guaranteed to place the work beyond the pale of much of the professional art world. At one point she frames the paper with brushstrokes and, in a way that recalls the natural ease of Sigmar Polke's early drawings, distributes dots in the space thus delineated; in another work, a thicket of interwoven lines floats in a white space that takes on the function of an imaginary passe-partout or mount for them. |
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