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Scumbling

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scum·ble  (skmbl)
tr.v. scum·bled, scum·bling, scum·bles
1. To soften the colors or outlines of (a painting or drawing) by covering with a film of opaque or semiopaque color or by rubbing.
2. To blur the outlines of: a writer who scumbled the line that divides history and fiction.
n.
1. The effect produced by or as if by scumbling.
2. Material used for scumbling.
[Possibly from scum.]
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In a scumbling technique that results in scuff marks on the surface of the paintings, a window appears that adds a peculiar perspective to the work.
ART IN REVIEW by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Nancy Turner's examination of the painting techniques of five illuminators over the course of a century focuses (literally, and at high magnification) not on the analysis of pigments but on the tiny strokes, scumbling, and washes of color, the varying coarseness of ground pigment, and the ingenious depiction of so elusive a subject as spittle, that made the work of Flemish miniaturists so sought after.
Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research by Moodey, Elizabeth J. / Renaissance Quarterly
The moody scumbling, planar layers, and primarily vertical format of Pierre Soulages's walnut-stain works on paper, a selection of which were exhibited recently at Haim Chanin Fine Arts, signal a strong affinity with the paintings of Mark Rothko.
Pierre Soulages: Haim Chanin Fine Arts/Robert Miller Gallery by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
 
 
 
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