Easel

An easel (also season ) is a frame, usually made of wood or metal, which the painter when making his pictures for fastening with setting up uses the same. Such a custom-built painting is also in contrast to the wall and ceiling painting called easel painting. The word comes from the obsolete name for a relay ladder rung, as well as partially in some parts of the German-speaking world the ladder is still often referred to as the easel.

Nature

Academy easels, easels suitcase and Field Easels are to avoid tipping, usually three-legged and have at the back of a moving support to achieve an arbitrary oblique position. There is a movable crossbar for adjusting the height of the image, which is done by iron or wooden studs at the front. These are placed in parallel mounted openings, on which rests the crossbar. There are also so-called H -frame easels. Your struts are arranged in parallel so that they have a rectangular booth in H form. The angle to the ground can be adjusted in some H -frame easels. The third form exists blend of tripods and H -frame rack. The easel in the " multi-purpose design " has many additional options for individual adaptation. For example, a rotating work surface.

Species

Easels be distinguished except by design type to the species level. Studio easels are usually heavy and thus stable enough to hold large canvas paintings. For transport and establishing in the wild but they are only conditionally. For this purpose lighter, foldable and collapsible easel can be used. A sub- form are French easels case with integrated compartment for art supplies. Rather slim and space saving are also collapsible artist easels. Like Paint stations for painting work at the table - even in miniature - well suited. Slightly shorter, and often equipped with extras such as whiteboard or chalkboard, there are easels are written especially for children.

For presentation purposes, the market offers presentation easels for painting exhibitions, mini easels for menus, photos, and the like, as well as moderating easels that are used for example in seminars for visualization. In addition, find easels in photo labs use where they keep the photo paper during exposure in position.

Use

Numerous painters portray himself painting at the easel. Some artists such as Goya and Diego Velázquez ( this in his work " Las Meninas " ) presented on large order paintings behind her easel as a subjective observer of the people to be painted represents the friend, the painter Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Pierre -Auguste Renoir often presented their easels side by side on and painted in common the same motives, but each kept his own style.

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The constellation painter was introduced in 1752 by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. On older star charts, it is usually depicted as an easel with paintbrush.