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Berthe Morisot: The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne, watercolor over graphite on paper by Berthe Morisot, 1872; in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Former Director, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Author of Drawing: History and Technique and others.
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drawing, the art or technique of producing images on a surface, usually paper, by means of marks, usually of ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon. Drawing as formal artistic creation might be defined as the primarily linear rendition of objects in the visible world, as well as of concepts, thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and fantasies given visual form, of symbols and even of abstract forms. This definition, however, applies to all graphic arts and techniques that are characterized by an emphasis on form or shape rather than mass and colour, as in painting. Drawing as such differs from graphic printing processes ...(100 of 15691 words)

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