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craquelure

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craquelure [ˈkrækəlʊə]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a network of fine cracks on old paintings caused by the deterioration of pigment or varnish
[from French, from craqueler to crackle, from craquer to crack, of imitative origin]


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81 Even accidents of process can be subsumed into the aesthetic of ornament, for example craquelure in ceramics, and the patch repairs on Kuba cloths.
In a nearby painting two rectangles and a triangle meet below another field of blue, here broken up by a craquelure of black lines and horizontal dashes of white.
The author stresses the difficulty posed by the proportions of oil to the other ingredients which left its impact on Leonardo's early paintings, all of which are marred by the subsequent wrinkling of the paint surface that led to surface craquelure.
 
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