Chuck Foreman

Late Antiquity

Easel – this is a wooden or metal lathe for painting, for which the artist attaches at the time of painting, drawing, and so at different altitudes and often with a different slope. Why do we need an easel? First, canvas on the easel securely attached, eliminating the fall and damage the future picture. Secondly, the artist with his easel painting has the ability to set at a certain height, easy to work standing or sitting. The canvas, mounted on an easel, you can move the height and adjust its angle of inclination. Easel allows the master to put a picture of the compact in the workplace and retreat to more accurately monitor the progress of their work. History easel easel Originally called the base oil paintings on wood or metal shields.

In addition to Byzantine icons and images of the Egyptian mummies the Late Antiquity period easels were first used in 11th and 12th centuries in the making of altar stands, and in the 16th century, driven by a wooden frame stretched canvas. Dutch artists and their imitators have continued, however, draw on easels and in later periods. In the 19th century as easels have been applied and resistant strains hardboard. Variety easels Easels are divided into two groups: jig easels, already known in antiquity, and easels, consisting of upright posts mounted on a horizontal basis. Easel easel is a two interconnected frames: top and bottom.

Them commonly used by professional artists working on paintings of large dimensions. Easel easels are folding and stationary. For the convenience of moving the studio to the bottom frame can be set castors with brakes. Easel easels are usually equipped with the most advanced device lock and move, and even screw mechanisms. Sometimes an artist has to use two easels, if width greater than the width of the future work easel more than doubled.

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