Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
glacis géométriques
English translation:
geometric layering
Added to glossary by
kashew
Sep 3, 2014 07:51
9 yrs ago
French term
United Kingdom
glacis géométriques
French to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Report on urban and street art
In a report about urban and street art in 2014. Describing an artist's work. context: "le Danois Morten Andersen, au travail de glacis géométriques sur toile". I realise that this artist's work involves geometric shapes, but how does this relate to the glaze? Is it the shapes that are geometric under the glaze, or the glaze applied in a way to produce a geometric result somehow? Thanks in advance!
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| 3 | geometric layering |
kashew
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| 3 | geometric slopes |
Chris Maddux
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Quick Google search of glacis.
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I think it has to do with how the brushstrokes are placed on the canvas.
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en peinture, le glacis est une couche de couleur transparente posée en fin de travail pour augmenter la profondeur des teintes et régler l'harmonie colorée du tableau
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http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacis#Le_glacis.2C_au_sens_m...
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Note added at 6 mins (2014-09-03 07:58:11 GMT)
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I think it has to do with how the brushstrokes are placed on the canvas.
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Note added at 12 mins (2014-09-03 08:04:00 GMT)
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en peinture, le glacis est une couche de couleur transparente posée en fin de travail pour augmenter la profondeur des teintes et régler l'harmonie colorée du tableau
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http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacis#Le_glacis.2C_au_sens_m...
Discussion
I may be wrong, but I'm not convinced it means "geometric glazes" - I would have thought glazes were normally applied to the whole surface.
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" Then I use spraycan, more acrylic, more charcoal and more chalk, and to finish up I apply a couple of layers of acrylic glaze, which really intensifies the colors and adds a nice even surface. "(from interview with Danish artist HAERVAERK)
If you take into account the friendship between Haervaerk and Andersen, it's possible that they use similar techniques that points to the use of glaze in geometric forms - Andersen's work is quite abstract with lots of geometric forms!
http://www.roomsmagazine.com/index.php/2012/05/interview-hae...
http://www.m-andersen.com/indexhibit/