horror vacuin.

/hɒrə ˈvakjuːʌɪ/

Etymology: modern Latin, lit. ‘the horror of a vacuum’.

Art.

The dislike of leaving empty spaces, e.g. in an artistic composition.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles

pastositya1806

touchiness1813

scene painting1834

horror vacui1845

texture1845

daguerreotypism1846

fruitiness1869

tintiness1886

posterishness1930

painterliness1950

non-figuration1955

simultaneity1957

hard-edge1961

figuration1962

colourfield1967

1845 W. Plate Ptolemy's Knowl. Arabia 5 Ptolemy had a tendency towards putting the inland towns too far east; but whether it was a mere horror vacui, or some misunderstanding, that induced him to do so, cannot be decided.

1937 Burlington Mag. Apr. 183/1 Pictures..showing looser compositions, less horror vacui, and a less trenchant treatment of light and drapery.

1954 M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages v. 108 True to the thirteenth century artist's horror vacui, he fills the lower corner of his miniature with more architecture..to balance that on the other side.

1960 R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork iv. 123 Castings were used in place of hand-carved or forged iron fittings,..loading them with detail with which to placate the current horror vacui.

1968 Listener 5 Dec. 774/2 A further tension builds up between the desire to create space and the desire to fill it. Sometimes the space-filling seems compulsive... Horror vacui struggles with claustrophobia.

1972 E. Lucie-Smith Eroticism in Western Art ix. 180 Nudes..fill the whole picture-space as if the artist suffered from horror vacui.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	horror vacui
释义	horror vacuin. /hɒrə ˈvakjuːʌɪ/ Etymology: modern Latin, lit. ‘the horror of a vacuum’. Art. The dislike of leaving empty spaces, e.g. in an artistic composition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles pastositya1806 touchiness1813 scene painting1834 horror vacui1845 texture1845 daguerreotypism1846 fruitiness1869 tintiness1886 posterishness1930 painterliness1950 non-figuration1955 simultaneity1957 hard-edge1961 figuration1962 colourfield1967 1845 W. Plate Ptolemy's Knowl. Arabia 5 Ptolemy had a tendency towards putting the inland towns too far east; but whether it was a mere horror vacui, or some misunderstanding, that induced him to do so, cannot be decided. 1937 Burlington Mag. Apr. 183/1 Pictures..showing looser compositions, less horror vacui, and a less trenchant treatment of light and drapery. 1954 M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages v. 108 True to the thirteenth century artist's horror vacui, he fills the lower corner of his miniature with more architecture..to balance that on the other side. 1960 R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork iv. 123 Castings were used in place of hand-carved or forged iron fittings,..loading them with detail with which to placate the current horror vacui. 1968 Listener 5 Dec. 774/2 A further tension builds up between the desire to create space and the desire to fill it. Sometimes the space-filling seems compulsive... Horror vacui struggles with claustrophobia. 1972 E. Lucie-Smith Eroticism in Western Art ix. 180 Nudes..fill the whole picture-space as if the artist suffered from horror vacui. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1845
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