| 单词 | pointing-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspointing-up b. Sculpture. The action or practice of marking guide-holes on a piece of stone or marble in preparation for roughing-out (see point v.1 2b). Also pointing-up. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > processes or techniques hatchet work1697 bossage1704 rusticating1749 boasting1823 chiselling1835 marmotinto1844 pointing1845 modelling1865 petroglyphy1882 pointillé1893 ganosis1911 1845 Encycl. Metrop. V. 465/2 The construction of these instruments for pointing is not always the same, but the principle on which they act is exactly similar. 1883 Mag. of Art Oct. 514/1 Here is done the pointing, as it is called; the marking out with mathematical accuracy upon the marble the points that shall guide the workman. 1969 L. R. Rogers Sculpture vi. 199 The pointing-up in marble of clay models in a mechanical fashion by craftsmen assistants. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 68/1 Although pointing has limitations as a technique of creative sculpture, it has been used widely, especially in the 19th century. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 94/2 Going out in search of suitable bits of junk has become as academic as ‘pointing up’ was in nineteenth-century sculpture. < as lemmas |
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