单词 | scene painting |
释义 | scene paintingn. 1. a. A painting forming part of the scenery for a stage production. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > scenic design scene painting1683 scenography1890 1683 J. S. Present State Eng.: Pts. III & IV iii. 87 Scene-Paintings and Machines have not been known in England till within these 20 years. 1770 G. Edwards Ess. Nat. Hist. ii. i. 54 I have observed, that rude scene paintings in theatres are more deceptive than more finished works. 1828 Times 4 Feb. 3/1 The beautiful scene paintings of the celebrated Sanquirico were long there among the best attractions of the stage. 1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXXII. 8/2 Most of Lambert's scene-paintings unfortunately perished when Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1808. 1970 Shakespeare Q. 21 279/2 Photographs and color reproductions of 363 examples of the scene paintings of the artist. 2010 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 8 Feb. d6 The wildly talented dancers and vibrantly surrealistic scene paintings by Beijing artist Feng Wei breathe life into the plot. b. The action or art of painting scenery for the theatre, esp. according to the rules of stage perspective. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] prospective1533 perspective1563 slantinga1618 scene painting1706 scenography1738 skiagraphy1850 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > scene-painting or -shifting scene painting1706 scene-shifting1760 1706 B. Buckeridge Ess. Eng. School in J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 463 He was especially eminent for Scene-Painting. 1754 J. Kirby Dr. B. Taylor's Method Perspective ii. vi. 76 The Design of Scene-Painting, is not only to decorate the Theatre, but to make that Part of it which lies beyond the Stage, appear much longer than it really is. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 305 Scene Painting is an extensive and peculiar walk of art, with its own laws and practical and scientific rules. 1913 ‘V. D. Browne’ (title) Secrets of scene painting and stage effects. 1981 Theatre Jrnl. 33 484 Verdigris..found continuing favor in the decorating and dyeing industries, and may well have been used in scene painting. 2013 R. C. Wolf & D. Block Scene Design & Stage Lighting (ed. 10) i. ix. 209 The final step in scene painting is the definition of form through the various painting techniques of lining, texturing, creating foliage, stenciling, and pouncing. c. A style of painting in which the subject is a specific scene, situation, or moment in time, depicted in naturalistic and atmospheric detail. Also: a painting of this sort.In early use perhaps with allusion to sense 1b. American scene painting n. (also with capital initial in the second element) a genre of painting developed by various North American artists in the 1920s and 30s, characterized by the depiction of typical scenes of American life and landscape in naturalistic style. 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 1834 Spectator 8 Feb. 135/2 ‘The Cathedral of Seville decorated for the festival of Corpus Christi,’ by Roberts, is a very rich piece of pictorial scene-painting. 1859 Spectator 7 May 496/2 ‘The Gamekeeper's Daughter, twilight’..is a..very pretty piece of scene painting; the scene being a copse with tranquil water..while a young girl is wending her way calmly along the grassy path with a load of game across her shoulders. 1860 Cosmopolitan Art Jrnl. 4 126/2 To our apprehension, it [sc. the picture ‘Twilight’] is unworthy of the artist, being a mere piece of scene painting, which it was vanity to exhibit. 1947 Bull. Museum Mod. Art 15 17/2 It was in the landscapes that most questions were raised as to whether this was bona-fide American-scene painting. 1969 Arch. Amer. Art Jrnl. 9 1/1 The movement after 1945 away from social realism and American Scene painting which dominated American art in the Depression. 2010 P. Forsaith in C. Yrigoyen T&T Clark Compan. to Methodism xx. 356 A scene painting of Wesley preaching in Ireland by Maria Spilsbury-Taylor. 2. figurative. With reference to writing, music, etc.: the action or fact of producing vividly descriptive or evocative work; work of this sort. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid pencilc1385 paintinga1400 portraiture?c1430 picturing1562 hypotyposis1570 presentment1633 portrayment?1650 scene painting1777 word painting1807 portrayal1836 pictorialism1869 1777 H. Mackenzie Julia de Roubigné II. xxviii. 28 A thousand thanks for your last letter... It is just such as I wished: your scene-painting is delightful. 1821 H. C. Robinson Diary 2 Dec. (1967) 71 I have finished Waverley... Its merit lies in portrait and scene painting. 1870 Athenæum 26 Nov. 700/1 (advt.) It [sc. the book] is always animated, and, without falling into the startling scene-painting of Mr. Hepworth Dixon, enables us to realise in the most vivid manner, the true nature of the rough Western population. 1887 C. H. H. Parry Stud. Great Composers vi. 181 The Pastoral Symphony..contained some things which certainly came very near being attempts at musical scene-painting, as, for instance, in the movement which represents the storm. 1923 P. Rosenfeld Musical Chron. 242 A fine bit of scene-painting, a passage of poignant music right off the wheel of modern life, is suddenly dragged down by a ‘consoling’ theme of organ-grinder beauty. 1979 A. Easson Elizabeth Gaskell iv. 115 The opening description of the town..is..no mere preliminary scene-painting. 2012 M. Ellmann in M. Joannou Hist. of Brit. Women's Writing, 1920–1945 i. iv. 83 These works eschew the extraneous ‘period’ detail or scene-painting typical of historical novels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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