Clive Bell describes ‘significant form’ as: ‘lines and colours combined in a particular way, which stir an aesthetic emotion’. He believes this emotion is independent of other kinds of human emotions. https://t.co/XG9ywRFOou

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It's and this week's word is intaglio: a print where the design is created by scraping away areas+inserting ink within the grooves created.
IMAGE: William Hogarth (1697-1764) False Perspective, 1753, etching on paper, On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site

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It's and this week's word is simultaneous narrative: when more than one part of the story is happening at once in one artwork.
IMAGE: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, “A Triptych: The Holy Family with an Angel Offering Fruit”, 1530-32, Levy Bequest Purchase.

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Spring 1873 by Pierre Auguste Cot
This amazing painting, I'll give you a special price that you can't find anywhere.

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Sailing word, from the serie "Words", Watercolour on Arches paper, 18 x 14 cm.

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This week's word is
hatching + crosshatching: hatching is a set of parallel lines that suggest shading +shape. Crosshatching is when these lines overlap each other perpendicularly.
IMAGE: D. Campagnola, The Beheading of St. Catherine, 1517, Levy Bequest Purchase

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