plural gessoes
1
: plaster of paris or gypsum prepared with glue for use in painting or making bas-reliefs
2
: a paste prepared by mixing whiting with size or glue and spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding
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The final room of the exhibition features a group of golden tablets made with gold thread and gesso, suspended from the ceiling in a darkened semi-circular room.
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
As evidenced in the Fondation Cartier retrospective, her innovative use of materials including cotton, gesso, horsehair, linen, gold leaf and palladium, combined with a mastery of ancient techniques such as braiding, knotting and weaving, enabled her to create vast three-dimensional textile pieces.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
The three were a match: they were all made using egg tempera and oil paint, along with two coats of gesso used as a base.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Each piece in the collection has repetitive organic forms as part of its design and comes in white gesso, natural Douglas fir and ebonized Douglas fir.
—Marques Harper, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
And whereas most painters favor white gesso to prepare a canvas, Mckinney chooses an almost counterintuitive layer of black.
—M.h. Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
The ground layer appears to be a single layer of lead white with no gesso.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
Strawberry syrup and banana skin preserved in gesso offer bright, sticky-sweet contrast in some shadows.
—Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
Ceramic mirrors by Mithe Espelt, a large-scale work by Lou Fink, and a gesso artwork by Jonathan Todryk dot the pink-and-terra-cotta walls.
—Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2023
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
As evidenced in the Fondation Cartier retrospective, her innovative use of materials including cotton, gesso, horsehair, linen, gold leaf and palladium, combined with a mastery of ancient techniques such as braiding, knotting and weaving, enabled her to create vast three-dimensional textile pieces.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
The three were a match: they were all made using egg tempera and oil paint, along with two coats of gesso used as a base.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Each piece in the collection has repetitive organic forms as part of its design and comes in white gesso, natural Douglas fir and ebonized Douglas fir.
—Marques Harper, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
And whereas most painters favor white gesso to prepare a canvas, Mckinney chooses an almost counterintuitive layer of black.
—M.h. Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
The ground layer appears to be a single layer of lead white with no gesso.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
Strawberry syrup and banana skin preserved in gesso offer bright, sticky-sweet contrast in some shadows.
—Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
Ceramic mirrors by Mithe Espelt, a large-scale work by Lou Fink, and a gesso artwork by Jonathan Todryk dot the pink-and-terra-cotta walls.
—Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 23 June 2023
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