incised

Examples of incised in the following topics:

• Etruscan Ceramics

  • Artists incised the vessels with geometric designs, as well as stylized images of humans and animals.
  • Bucchero was often simply decorated with incised lines that formed geometric and abstract patterns.
  • Some patterns were incised with a stylus and others with a toothed wheel or comb-like instruments to create consistent rows of dots or patterns of dots in the shape of fans.
  • In pseudo-red-figure painting, internal details were marked by incision, similar to the usual practice in black-figure vase painting, rather than painted on, as in true red-figure.

• Aquatint

  • Intaglio printmaking is a family of printing techniques in which an image is incised into the surface of a metal plate; the incised line holds the ink, while the original surface of the plate is wiped clean.

• Drypoint

  • Drypoint is a printmaking technique in the intaglio family, a category in which an image is etched into a plate, and the incised line holds the ink that will be transferred to the final print.
  • The lines produced in the final print are formed not only by the carved lines, but also by the burrs, or raised edges of the incised lines.
  • This technique is different from engraving, in which the incisions are made by removing metal to form depressions in the plate surface which hold ink.

• Paleolithic Artifacts

  • The object is a red tufic pebble, about 1.4 inches long, which has at least three grooves, possibly incised with a sharp-edged stone tool.
  • One bone fragment, an elephant tibia, has two groups of incised parallel lines which some have interpreted as an early example of art making.
  • The regular spacing of the incisions, their subequal lengths, and V-like cross-sections suggest that they were created at the same time, with a single stone, however no conclusive agreement has been made.

• Bronze Age Rock Carvings

  • Petroglyphs, or rock engravings, are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface via incising, picking, carving and/or abrading.

• Art in Western Europe

  • The majority of images have been painted onto the stone using mineral pigments, although some designs have also been incised into the stone.
  • The art at this location is either carved, incised, picked, or a combination of these various techniques, but it is rarely painted.

• Paleolithic Cave Paintings

  • Sometimes the silhouette of the animal was incised in the rock first, and in some caves many of the images are only engraved in this fashion, taking them out of a strict definition of "cave painting. "
  • Similarly, a three-dimensional quality and the suggestion of movement are achieved by incising or etching around the outlines of certain figures.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • The jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked large ritual jades, commonly incised with the taotie motif.

• Eskimo

  • The graphic decorations incised on them were purely ornamental, bearing no religious significance.

• African Art

  • The stones are made from ochre and covered in abstracted patterns of intersecting, incised lines.