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palette
palette. A flat board, usually rectangular, ovoid, or kidney shaped, on which artists arrange their paints ready for use; early examples sometimes had a handle, rather like a table-tennis bat, but a thumb-hole is now standard. Palettes first appeared c.1400; before then individual containers (sometimes shells) were used for mixing colours. For oil painting, mahogany is traditionally considered the best material for palettes, although other close-grained hardwoods have been used. Materials such as porcelain or ivory have been used by watercolour or miniature painters and also sometimes by oil painters—Millais, for example, used a porcelain palette early in his career, when he painted with fastidious detail and wished to avoid muddying his colours.
For many artists, choice of their pigments and the order in which they are arranged on the palette is a very important and personal matter; instructional manuals of the 18th and 19th centuries published much advice on how to ‘set’ a palette, and Baudelaire describes Delacroix placing the pigments on his palette with the fastidious care of a woman arranging a bouquet of flowers. By extension, the term ‘palette’ thus refers to the range of colours characteristic of an artist; Caravaggio has a dark or restricted palette, Monet a bright or rich palette. |
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IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-palette.html IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-palette.html |
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palette
palette. A flat board, usually rectangular, ovoid, or kidney-shaped, on which artists arrange their paints ready for use; early examples sometimes had a handle, rather like a table-tennis bat, but a thumb-hole is now standard. Palettes first appeared c.1400; before then individual containers (sometimes shells) were used for mixing colours. For oil painting, mahogany is traditionally considered the best material for palettes, although other close-grained hardwoods have been used. Materials such as porcelain or ivory have been used by watercolour or miniature painters and also sometimes by oil painters—Millais, for example, used a porcelain palette early in his career, when he painted with fastidious detail and wished to avoid muddying his colours. For many artists, choice of their pigments and the order in which they are set out on the palette is a very important and personal matter and much advice was published on how to ‘set’ a palette in handbooks of the 17th and 18th centuries. By extension, the term ‘palette’ thus refers to the range of colours characteristic of an artist; Caravaggio has a dark or restricted palette, Monet a bright or rich palette.
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IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-palette.html IAN CHILVERS. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-palette.html |
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palette
pal·ette / ˈpalit/ • n. a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors. ∎ the range of colors used by a particular artist or in a particular picture: I choose a palette of natural, earthy colors. ∎ fig. the range or variety of tonal or instrumental color in a musical piece: he commands the sort of tonal palette that this music needs. ∎ (in computer graphics) the range of colors or shapes available to the user. ORIGIN: late 18th cent.: from French, diminutive of pale ‘shovel,’ from Latin pala ‘spade.’ |
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"palette." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "palette." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-palette.html "palette." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-palette.html |
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palette
palette The choice of colors or shades available to a computer program. The size of the palette may vary from two (as in monochrome with no intervening graduations) to many millions. The colors in the palette are normally chosen from a much larger number, such as a choice of 256 chosen from 4096; the numbers are usually powers of 2.
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JOHN DAINTITH. "palette." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN DAINTITH. "palette." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-palette.html JOHN DAINTITH. "palette." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-palette.html |
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palette
palette The selection of colours available to the user of a graphics program.
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DARREL INCE. "palette." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DARREL INCE. "palette." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-palette.html DARREL INCE. "palette." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-palette.html |
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palette
palette XVII. — F.; see PALLET2.
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T. F. HOAD. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-palette.html T. F. HOAD. "palette." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-palette.html |
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palette
palette •mallet, palette, pallet, valet
•tablet • pamphlet • aglet • anklet
•candlelit • hamlet
•Caplet, chaplet
•lamplit • flatlet • mantlet
•haslet, Hazlitt
•scarlet, Scarlett, starlet, starlit, varlet
•armlet • lancelet • branchlet
•martlet, tartlet
•plantlet • pellet • reglet • necklet
•playlet • lakelet • bracelet
•platelet, statelet
•wavelet • leaflet • eaglet • streamlet
•billet, filet, fillet, millet, skillet, willet
•driblet, triblet
•piglet • singlet • gimlet • inlet
•kinglet, ringlet, springlet, winglet
•ripplet, triplet
•wristlet
•eyelet, islet, stylet, twilit
•pikelet
•collet, Smollett, wallet
•goblet • rodlet
•omelette (US omelet) • droplet
•torchlit
•corselet, corselette
•gauntlet (US gantlet) • owlet
•townlet • toadlet • notelet • toilet
•moonlit • sextuplet • fruitlet
•bullet, pullet
•booklet, brooklet, hooklet
•quadruplet • annulet • septuplet
•rivulet • quintuplet
•gullet, mullet
•doublet • floodlit
•runlet, sunlit
•couplet • cutlet • frontlet • violet
•coverlet • circlet • verselet
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"palette." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "palette." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-palette.html "palette." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-palette.html |
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