Artificial depiction or faux finishing is a term used to describe decorative paints that mimic the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone. The term is derived from the French word faux, which means wrong, because the technique began as a form of replication material such as marble and wood with paint, but later came to include many other decorative decorations for walls and furniture including texture simulations and recognizable surfaces..
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History
Artificial appearances have been used for thousands of years, ranging from cave paintings to ancient Egyptian tombs, but what we usually consider to be the final settlement in decorative art began with plaster and plaster in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago.
Artificial paintings became popular in classical times in the form of artificial marble, faux wood, and trompe l'oeil murals. Artists will apprentice for 10 years or more with faux master painters before working on their own. Exceptional acknowledgment is given to artists who can actually trick viewers into believing that their work is the real thing. Imitation painting continues to be popular all the time, but has experienced a major revival in the nineteenth century neoclassical revival and Art Deco style of the 1920s. During the history of decorative painting, faux finishing has been widely used in commercial and public spaces.
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The revival of the 20th century
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, fake finishing saw another major revival, when the wallpaper began to miss the fashion. At this point, fake paintings become very popular in home environments, with high-end houses leading the trend. While it is quite expensive to hire a professional faux con artist ($ 80.00/hour), many fake painting methods are considered quite simple for early homeowners to make with little instruction. Some, however, fail to take important details such as angles into consideration and end up with self-employment. Some finishes are applied professionally in high-end, Bay-Area homes from northern California, for example, as simple as oil glaze/paint/oil-based penetration or as complex as applications with peacock feathers and 4 different colors applied using 4 different techniques. People are interested in the simplicity of changing the fake finish, as it can be easily painted compared to the issue of removing wallpaper. The problem with removing wallpaper comes when people who do not have formal training do not follow proper procedures during preparation such as priming with oil-based primers, then following up with other products that make paper out relatively easily.
In modern faux finishing, there are two main ingredients/processes used. Glaze work involves the use of a mixture of paint and glazes applied with brushes, rollers, rags, or sponges, and often mimics texture, but is always smooth to touch. The plaster work can be done with colored plaster, or washed with earth pigment, and is generally applied with a shovel or spatula. The end result can be flat to be touched or textured.
Fake prints
- Marble or faux marbling is used to make walls and furniture look like real marble. This can be done using a plaster or glaze technique.
- Fresco is a simple technique, using mixed colors and compounds to add dappled colors and fine texture to plain walls,
- Graining, wood graining, or faux bois (French for "fake wood") are often used to mimic exotic or hard-to-find wood varieties.
- Trompe l'oeil, "cheat the eye" in French, is a realistic painting technique often used in murals, and to create architectural detail and depth and 3 dimensions.
- Venetian plaster is a smooth and often glossy plaster design that looks textured but smooth to the touch. Venetian plaster is one of the most popular and traditional plaster decorations. Authentic Venetian plaster is made of marble dust and milled limestone.
- Color washing is a free-form finish that creates subtle color variations using some glaze colors mixed together with a paint brush.
- StriÃÆ'Â ©, from the French for "stripe" or "streak", is a glass technique that creates a soft thin line of color using a paint brush. This is a technique often used to simulate fabrics such as linen and denim.
- Fabric painting or ragging is a glass technique using a fabric twisted or tied to create a texture pattern.
- Sponging is the final result achieved by applying glaze to the wall by applying a sea sponge, in various forms to get a simple design (resembling wallpaper) and more sophisticated.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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