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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Depicking sounds and looks like a laborious task but seems to belong to the realms of textiles or personal grooming rather than those of describing or painting. After viewing a few examples, however, I find it quite possible to imagine it as a particularly meticulous fine art or decorative technique – details perhaps being ‘picked out’?
The Main Steet in Stockbridge was depicked by Norman Rockwell in his 1956 mural. Stockbridge General Store Brick Building …
“Hell” was depicked by Donte’s Inferno; a fiction novel. After his book, many other Authors made books about how “Hell” was in their religion. ...
Description: This high quality laser cut metal “Coyote Lamp” completely depicks the beauty of Northern Michigan’s wildlife and countryside. ...
I’m a fan (and you should be too) because…his music depicks my every mood in such a way that am made to give way to love to prevail when i feel so closed …
I have a Hardcastle watercolor that depicks a sailing vessel that he has written on the front “American Clipper Ship Swordship” and dated 1851. ...
The gun features 5 gold inlays depicking duck hunting game scenes and John brownings profile on the other side. The reciver has a special silver grey finish …
sooo what if she shows her back??!?!?!? she is a young woman, shes not showing raw nudity. she is depicking ART. nothing more. ...
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There is a sense of “pick out” that relates to depiction. I don’t hear or read it much these days. We say, or used to say, that an artist “picks out” a color against a contrasting background of another color. Example from the OED: “1992 Daily Mail 17 Aug. 20/3 Jackson then presented his young fan with..a card with his autograph picked out in velvet.”
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