προπλασμός

English translation: proplasmos

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Greek term or phrase:	προπλασμός
English translation:	proplasmos
Entered by:	Valentini Mellas

19:05 Mar 13, 2008

Greek to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / iconography

Greek term or phrase: προπλασμός

Στο ωοειδές πρόσωπο του Χριστού κυριαρχούν οι λαδοπράσινοι προπλασμοί, που λειτουργούν σαν σκιές, και μεταξύ τους παρεμβάλλονται απαλά και αρμονικά τα ρόδινα σαρκώματα. [...] Τα μαλλιά, τα γένια και το μουστάκι πλάθονται με τον ίδιο προπλασμό και ενδιάμεσα φωτίσματα. Παρόμοιος τρόπος πλασίματος χρησιμοποιείται και για την απόδοση του κοντόχοντρου λαιμού.

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Laura Bodger KudoZ activity Questions: 6 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 2
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proplasmos

Explanation:
Ο προπλασμός είναι το σκούρο χρώμα που απλώνεται σ΄ όλη την επιφάνεια των σαρκωμάτων και είναι ο τόνος που θα μείνει στο τέλος στο σκιαζόμενο μέρος. ...
www.byzarticon.gr/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=...

Ο προπλασμός είναι το σκούρο χρώμα που απλώνεται στις επιφάνειες των πρώτων χρωμάτων και είναι διαφορετικό για κάθε ομάδα στοιχείων (γυμνά μέρη προσώπου ...
www.agiografisi.gr/technicen.php

Πέρασμα προπλασμού (βασικού χρώματος). Πρώτο λάμα (άνοιγμα χρώματος στα ρούχα ... Προπλασμός χρυσοκονδυλιάς. Χρυσοκονδυλιά και αειπάρθενο (τα τρία αστεράκια ...
ntgnm.blogspot.com/2006/02/hagiography.html

In the Greek painters manual sankir is called Pansellina proplasmos, .... This is called proplasmos in Greek iconography, which is a dark toned underpaint. ...
www.naturalpigments.com/education/article.asp?ArticleID=15

Proplasmos, the name given to the ground colour layer, is considered to be the basis for all the discernible overlaying gradations. ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1296207400001643

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Valentini Mellas
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Local time: 17:40

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proplasmos

Valentini Mellas

dark base colour; warm and dark colours

Caroline Makrop

background

STAMATIOS FASSOULAKIS

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proplasmos

Valentini Mellas
Greece
Local time: 17:40
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PRO pts in category: 4

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Asker: Thank you Valentini!!

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background

Explanation:
προπλασμός κατα Μπαμπινιώτη =το φόντο ζωγραφικού πίνακα (στούς βυζαντινούς αγιογράφους)

STAMATIOS FASSOULAKIS
Greece
Local time: 17:40
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English
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Asker: Thank you!

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dark base colour; warm and dark colours

Explanation:
Icons are built up using layers of colour. See this extract from (my unpublished translation of) 'In Rhythm' by George Kordis : 'As far as land is concerned relational perspective is rendered mainly through light. Thus, in the series of parallel levels that form the ground, the light enters in at the first plane in front and the darker part (the dark base colour or proplasmos) is applied behind. This gives the impression that the ground is moving from the artistic surface towards the viewer.' Another extract: 'As is well-known, in Byzantine art there is no internal or external source of light. People and objects are illuminated for purely artistic reasons, and not for naturalistic ones. Things receive form not because light falls on them but because their plasticity has to be rendered, given that there is no depth in the icon, and because they must be directed outwards. Thus iconographers begin with warm and dark colours (proplasmos) and finish with cold light colours (highlights, middle tones, and fleshy tones). Working from dark colours through to fleshy tones creates movement from the surface of the icon towards the viewer.'

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These 2 solutions were arrived at in collaboration with George Kordis, icon painter.

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Thus, in the series of parallel levels that form the ground, the light enters in at the first plane in front and the darker part (the dark base colour or proplasmos) is applied behind.

Caroline Makrop
Greece
Local time: 17:40
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English

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