List of art techniques
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Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art.[1][2][3]
Art techniques
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Aerial perspective by Frans Koppelaar, Landscape near Bologna, 2001; distant objects are lighter, of lower contrast, and bluer than nearer objects.
- Airbrushing technique
- Aerial perspective technique
- Acrylic painting techniques
- Aging (artwork) technique
- Aquatint
- Assemblage (art) technique
- Animation (digital art)
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File:Pablo Picasso, 1913-14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.jpg
a Collage by Pablo Picasso cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard
- Camaïeu technique
- Cast paper
- Ceramic forming techniques
- Cerography
- Champlevé
- Chiaroscuro technique
- Cloisonné
- Collage
- Contour drawing technique
- Contour rivalry
- Crosshatching
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File:"Два брата и две сестры". Бумага, масляная краска. 50х70 см. Техника "Сухая кисть".jpg
Portrait using dry brushing technique
File:Droste 1260359-nevit.jpg
The Droste effect
- Dalle de verre
- Décollage technique
- Digital painting technique
- Distressing technique
- Divisionism technique
- Drip painting
- Droste effect
- Drybrush
- Dye-sublimation technique
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- Embossing technique
- Encaustic (hot wax) painting technique
- En résille enameling technique
- Etching technique
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File:Apotheosis, grattage su tela, opera dell'artista Giovanni Guida.jpg
Example of grattage
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File:Van Gogh - Starry Night - Google Art Project-x0-y0.jpg
Van Gogh - The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh - an example of impasto technique and line structure.[4]
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chican
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Wall paintings, (mural) Varanasi, India, 1974.
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Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait, 1887, using pointillist technique.
- Paint by number
- Paper craft
- Pholage artistic technique
- Plique-à-jour enameling technique
- Pointillé technique
- Pointillism
- Pouncing technique
- Pencil shading
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- Rapid visualization graphic artist technique
- Relief art technique
- Relief printing technique
- Repoussé and chasing technique
- Resin art technique
- Rubbing (art)
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- Scratchitti graffiti
- Scratchboard
- Screen printing technique
- Screentone texture technique
- Sfumato technique
- Shading
- Sgraffito technique
- Spray painting technique
- stippling
- still life
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File:Jean-Baptiste Pillement - A chinoiserie procession of figures riding on elephants with temples, oil on canvas.jpg
Verdaille example A Chinoiserie Procession of Figures Riding on Elephants with Temples Beyondby Jean-Baptiste Pillement
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Example of Woodblock printing. Aizuri-e print: Kinryuzan Temple in Asakusa
- Watercolor painting
- Welded sculpture technique
- Wet-on-wet
- Wire sculpture
- Wood engraving technique
- Woodblock printing (Moku hanga) technique
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See also
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- Art movement
- Creativity techniques
- Hockney–Falco thesis
- Kalliroscope
- List of art media
- List of artistic media
- List of art movements
- List of most expensive paintings
- List of most expensive sculptures
- List of sculptors
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