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- noun uncountable A technique of
intaglio printmaking in which animage isincised into aplate byscratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond)point . - noun countable A
print made using this technique.
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Examples
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Liir could see the artist’s tentative first lines corrected by definitive cross-hatching in a kind of drypoint, with highlights of coffee-colored wash.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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In contrast to this work's drypoint beauty, Robin Holloway's Fifth Concerto for Orchestra – a BBC commission and world premiere – was lustrous and glitteringly orchestrated, with many surprising and highly original textures.
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The works included mostly paintings, some etchings, charcoal and brush sketches, drypoint work, watercolors of plants, blown glass goblets and containers, Delft ceramic tiles and vessels and silver items (and a few miniature chairs, 6 inches high).
Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson 2009
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Haydn's 85th Symphony, "La Reine," emerged with the clarity of restraint, like a drypoint etching, the orchestra making entrances together in sharp, precise lines (though clean entrances are not something to take for granted with this particular ensemble).
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A swimmer swims out through voids of drypoint, inkwash,
Buoyancy 2008
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A swimmer swims out through voids of drypoint, inkwash,
Buoyancy 2008
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Though I did a drypoint print of buttons last year, and theres nothing like drawing a couple hundred buttons on plastic with a needle to make you a little iffy on them...
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Though I did a drypoint print of buttons last year, and theres nothing like drawing a couple hundred buttons on plastic with a needle to make you a little iffy on them...
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The eminent historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has sometimes been labeled a hagiographer for the Camelot chords he struck, but A Thousand Days is an intricate and serious narrative biography with sweeping historical themes and incisive drypoint character sketches.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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At his best — as in the small drypoint "Portrait of Ernest Rousseau, State III" (1887), the Turneresque painting "The Domain of Arnheim" (1890), and the tiny, red-and-white oil portrait "Man of Sorrows" (1891), in which Christ's visage looks as if it is bleeding to the surface — Ensor is able to tap into something real and deep, to merge form and feeling until it achieves near-iconic status.
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