white-ground

Examples of white-ground in the following topics:

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • This depiction of Herakles fighting Geryon provides an example of Type I white-ground painting.
  • The Achilles Painter, a pupil of the Berlin Painter and creator of both red-figure and white-ground vessels, is one of the most well-known white ground painters.
  • Attic white ground lekythos. c. 440-430 BCE.
  • Attic white-ground black-figure lekythos.
  • Attic white ground lekythos. c. 440-430 BCE.

• Minoan Painting

  • The Minoan color palette is based in earth tones of white, brown, red, and yellow.
  • It depicts a whimsical, hilly landscape with lilies sprouting from the ground.
  • Sparrows, painted in blue, white, and red, swoop around the landscape.
  • Similar earth-tone colors are used, including black, white, brown, red, and blue.
  • Kamares ware, a distinctive type of pottery painted in white, red, and blue over a black backdrop, is created from a fine clay.

• The Chora Church in Constantinople

  • Metochites' additions and reconstruction in the fourteenth century enlarged the ground plan from the original small, symmetrical church into a large, unsymmetrical square that consists of three main areas: an inner and outer narthex or entrance hall, the naos or main chapel, and the side chapel, known as the parecclesion.
  • The figures in the scene all have a certain weightiness to them that helps to ground them adding an element of naturalism.
  • Christ wears a white robe and is framed by a white and light blue mandorla and stands over a bound Satan, who remains helpless beneath Christ's feet.
  • His arms reach out to Adam and Eve and his feet are positioned on uneven ground, providing the sensation of unbalance as Christ retrieves righteous souls.

• Political Art

  • Grounded by strategies rooted in the real world, projects in conceptual art demanded viewer participation and were exhibited outside of the traditional and exclusive space of the art gallery, thus making the work accessible to the public.
  • Since 2002, Guerrilla Girls, Inc. have designed and installed billboards in Los Angeles during the Oscars to expose white male dominance in the film industry, such as: "Anatomically Correct Oscars," "Even the Senate is More Progressive than Hollywood," "The Birth of Feminism, Unchain the Women Directors. " Guerrilla Girls have also published books that include their statistical data, protest arts and goals regarding inequality in the art world.
  • Guerrilla Girls billboard in Los Angeles protests white male dominance at the Oscars in 2009.

• Architecture of the Middle Kingdom

  • The ground-level structures consist of the entrance opening into the courtyard and mortuary temple, surrounded by walls.
  • The White Chapel, also referred to as the Jubilee Chapel, is one of the finest examples of architecture during this time.
  • The White Chapel of Senusret I at Karnak is a good example of the fine quality of art and architecture produced during the 12th Dynasty.

• Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

  • For hundreds of years, the Pueblo created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, incorporating reds and oranges toward the end of their era in the 13th century.
  • Designs were painted on the exterior of black-on-white pottery and the interior of bowls, primarily with geometric shapes or representations of people, animals, and birds.
  • In the sandpainting of southwestern Navajo, the Medicine Man (or Hatałii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the colored sands flow through his fingers.
  • The colors for the painting are usually accomplished with naturally colored sand, crushed gypsum (white), yellow ochre, red sandstone, charcoal, and a mixture of charcoal and gypsum (blue).
  • Brown can be made by mixing red and black; red and white make pink.

• Thai Painting

  • An important element in the composition is the apportioning of areas: the main elements in the image are isolated from one another by space transformers, which eliminate the intermediate ground that would otherwise imply perspective.
  • A depiction of a white elephant in 19th century Thai art.

• Oil

  • The stretched canvas is then covered or primed with a layer of gesso, a white mixture of glue and chalk, or nowadays a mixture of titanium dioxide in an acrylic binder.
  • Sometimes artists apply multiple layers of gesso, sanding it smooth after each layer to create their desired ground.

• Sculpture of the Early Dynastic Period

  • The main figures in reliefs adhere to the same figure convention as in painting, with parted legs (where not seated) and head shown from the side, but the torso from the front, and a standard set of proportions making up the figure, using 18 "fists" to go from the ground to the hair-line on the forehead.
  • On the recto (front) side of the palette, he wears the bulbed White Crown of Upper Egypt.
  • The third register depicts two mythological animals whose intertwined necks symbolize the newly unified Egypt and form a recessed area in which cosmetics were ground.

• Emphasis

  • Space includes the background, foreground, and middle ground.
  • This can be achieved, for instance, by leaving white space in the direction the eyes of a portrayed person are looking, or, when picturing a runner, adding white space in front of him rather than behind him to indicate movement.