The artistic arrangement of clothing in sculpture or painting
Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles (Old French drap, from Late Latin drappus ). It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes - such as around windows - or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.
curtain: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
Cloth coverings hanging in loose folds
Long curtains of heavy fabric
The process of making or producing something
(usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake"
qualification: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician"
Essential qualities or ingredients needed for something
devising: the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
Money made; earnings or profit
A thin, typically rectangular piece of wood or glass forming or set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling
(panel) empanel: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors"
(panel) decorate with panels; "panel the walls with wood"
A thin piece of metal forming part of the outer shell of a vehicle
A flat board on which instruments or controls are fixed
(panel) sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
Grunewald, Matthias (1470c.-1528) - 1512-1516 The Temptation of St. Anthony - Isenheim Altar Panel ( Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France)
German painter, draughtsman, hydraulic engineer and architect. He is generally regarded as the greatest painter of the German Renaissance and certainly its greatest colourist. His paintings are unparalleled in their extraordinary beauty and expressive force. He was a man of profound religious beliefs whose vision transcended the visible world and led him to paint some of the most moving and memorable images of Christ’s Passion in Western art. His pictorial language is rooted in the symbolic imagery of the Middle Ages, especially the mysticism of the 14th century, but is at the same time proto-Baroque in its dramatic movement, in the highly expressive language of drapery forms and gestures and in the strong contrasts of light and shadow. Unlike Durer, he did not make prints; the linear techniques of printmaking were foreign to this quintessentially painterly artist. Even his drawings are consistently rendered in the painterly medium of black chalk rather than pen and ink.
Bird Shrine
There's a long, fairly uninteresting story (you-woulda-hadda-be-there) behind this piece. The short version is that I made it for my friend Sherry's birthday.
The front, top and edges are done with pique-assiette (broken china, dishes, etc. make up the tesserae, or mosaic tiles) and the side panels and outer edges of the door are handcut glass tesserae over sealed paper.
The bird is a funky old vintage figurine and the door knob is a metal flower drapery tack.
The grout and exposed wood (inside and back) are stained with alcohol ink.