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Перевод: aquatint

[существительное]
акватинта [иск.]

Тезаурус:

1. When one sees an aquatint or a soft-ground etching by William Green alongside one of these prints, one is immediately aware of the difference.
2. The physical make-up of dots in a photograph differs from the lines and granular surface of the aquatint; the aquatint's variations describe the picture more eloquently.
3. Aquatint is a process of achieving tone instead of line by etching a metal plate: the metal used by Green would be copper, and this would then be covered with resin dust.
4. In truth, the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information; this can be made plain by looking at a picture, say of the eighteenth century, and comparing it with a contemporary print, perhaps an aquatint, and a modern photograph.
5. I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when, in conversation with Mr. McQueen, he discovered that I came from this area, he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes.
6. Wiping an aquatint is one of the more difficult procedures.
7. The original painting was interpreted by the technician into marks that were possible in etching or aquatint; this gives most of these prints a stiff, airless quality.
8. There is a feeling of light in the best of Green's work and a directness and freshness in the use of aquatint and of line.
9. They are large aquatints delicately hand-coloured, and, in the ones that I have seen, the aquatint is very grey and even, quite unlike the later colour aquatints of 1815.
10. The foreground is usually a relatively coarse aquatint and is printed in umber, a more delicate aquatint is used for the distance and sky and printed in prussian blue.
11. In these early aquatints by Green the skies are produced by various bitings and stopping-out of the aquatint, the varnish has been applied with a small brush.