Artistic & Craft Techniques

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Abstractions about hands-on techniques for making and manipulating visual and material art, covering surface and printmaking methods (Burnishing, Carborundum Printmaking, Stipple Engraving, Damascening), drawing and photographic techniques (Contour Drawing, Panoramic Photography, Ken Burns Effect), and construction or lighting practices like Modular Art and Stage Lighting.

13 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Accent lighting — Some accent lights are not made to shine on a particular object, but are themselves a piece of art with a self-contained light source.
• Art forgery — Art forgery is the creation and sale of works of art which are intentionally falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists.
• Burnishing (pottery) — Burnishing is a form of pottery treatment in which the surface of the pot is polished, using a hard smooth surface such as a wooden or bone spatula, smooth stones, plastic, or even glass bulbs, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state, i.e., before firing.
• Carborundum Printmaking — Carborundum mezzotint, or carborundum aquatint, is a printmaking technique in which the image is created by adding light passages to a dark field.
• Contour drawing — Contour drawing is an art technique in which the artist sketches the style of the subject by drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline (the French word meaning "outline").
• Damascening — Damascening is the art of inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns similar to niello.
• Drawing (manufacturing) — Drawing is a manufacturing process that uses tensile forces to elongate metal, glass, or plastic.
• Endomosaic — Endomosaic is an artistic technique developed and named by the sculptor Emile Norman which features crushed glass and other materials suspended between sheets of acrylic.
• Ken Burns effect — The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in film and video production from non-consecutive still images.
• Modular art — Modular art is art created by joining together standardized units (modules) to form larger, more complex compositions.
• Panoramic photography — Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view.
• Stage lighting — Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts.
• Stipple engraving — Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image.