How To Use Graffito In A Sentence
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It occupies the entire 6-foot-high composition, with ink spatters, sgraffito and handprints enlivening the surface.
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The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made.
Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
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Various graffito was scrawled across the walls.
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Plenty of slabs of lurid brick await their first graffito.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
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It occupies the entire 6-foot-high composition, with ink spatters, sgraffito and handprints enlivening the surface.
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I believe the clay coated board is so that you can incise or abraid through the clay to expose a white surface for fine detail, like scratchboard or sgraffito.
U of T Biomedical Communication
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Italian sgraffito designs were mostly scrolls or arabesque patterns.
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The graffito ashlaring was last restored during the general reconstruction in 1992 together with the renovation of the two original vaulted halls on the ground-floor.
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A classicist by training, Mr. Toohey argues, to the contrary, that boredom has always been with us, which seems plausible enough if this ancient graffito from a much-scribbled-on wall in Pompeii is anything to go by: Wall!
Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
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The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs -- a true sgraffito-ware.
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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When the inscription is properly cut into the stone, it is called a titulus or marble; if merely scratched on the stone, the Italian word graffito is used; a painted inscription is called dipinto, and a mosaic inscription — such as are found largely in North Africa, Spain, and the East — bears the name of opus musivum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Consider also media (from medium), criteria (from criterion), graffiti (from graffito), and stamina (from stamen).
Data is data, or are they?
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Here the last vestiges of the figurative, a few delicately poised hands, flowers and shells, are subsumed into patterned and highly coloured surfaces of glazes, scumbles, impasto, sgraffito, stipples, dots and splodges of paint.
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In tempera painting the most spectacular technique to combine gilding and paint is that of sgraffito, most often used to depict cloth of gold.
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He, too, has worked very large and with heroic, mythic narratives, but once again, seems to take an ironical stance toward monumentality by his use of magnified sgraffito and scrawled imagery.
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A man called Kilroy travels into the US wartime past of the 1940s, and leaves in a graffito a mark of his presence.
Science fiction mystery « Squares of Wheat
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His tomb bore this Latin graffito: "Hic jacet impius Pios" — "here lies an impious pope between two Piuses.
USATODAY.com - Papal funeral merges spectacle, symbolism
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No-one knew how the graffito got there, and as those were the days before closed circuit cameras, no culprit was spotted and certainly the artist never claimed his work.
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Some Monk had scribbled some copperplate on the back of it - a 500 year old graffito.
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Second, the fact that this particular graffito is so cleverly executed, given how it blends in.
Waldo Jaquith - Virgil Goode: “Bigot.”
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Consider also media (from medium), criteria (from criterion), graffiti (from graffito), and stamina (from stamen).
Data is data, or are they?
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In graffito pottery the design was produced by scratching though the overglaze.
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Here I'd suggest that the answer lies in the direct converse to the famous situationist graffito ‘Be realistic, demand the impossible!’
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This work conveys a sense of elements whirling about with the wind, much as in his In the Beginning; the artist makes good use of sgraffito to create additional designs.
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How many tattoos can one body take before you become a walking graffito?
Times, Sunday Times
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Emphasis will be placed on surface design techniques such as graffito and stenciling.
Island Packet: Home
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We biked along the Czech Republic's border with Austria and made our way to villages like Slavonice and Telc, known for buildings done in ornamental graffito; Cizov, for a slice of Iron Curtain; and Jindrichuv Hradec, home to the country's third largest castle.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels
