facture
- noun
- /ˈfæktʃər/
- Jargon
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- The sculpture's facture reveals the intricate process of carving and shaping the stone over many months.
- design and facture
Examples
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In this sense, I take the point made to me in correspondence by conservator Alex Gent that the currently visible damage to the panel is most likely the product of overcleaning rather than faulty facture by Reynolds.
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In such cases, facture serves as a display of artistic "assurance," "manner," or virtuosity—qualities likely to impress a courtly patron.
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Such rapid intelligence of the object and such pleasing facture!
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Time and marking time, then, become particularly interesting given that the black square paintings' facture was, if nothing else, time-consuming.
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For the literati, naturalism sat at the negative end, while coarseness and facture marked the positive side of the scale.
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The structure/ornament figure houses not only two different narratives but also two fundamentally distinct, even contrary, lines of argument concerning the facture and historical meaning.
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Yet the president's experimental, chemical facture, its period response, and the unstable theoretical terms in which Reynolds attempted to grapple with that enterprise suggest other possibilities.
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Oil painting's recent, volatile history in Britain served as a crucial point of reference when close affiliates interpreted Reynolds's unusual pictorial facture.
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For anyone now interested in the poetics of manner or facture, this broad perspective as well as Kris and Kurz's chosen example, the art that looks like magic, invites further thought.
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In conjunction with a close examination of critical aspects of architectural design and facture, it would offer a rereading of the relevant pages in Manetti not only for planning history but also as sociocultural evidence regarding the project's origins and reception.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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3.4
A distinctive way people dress or behave that shows taste
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Facture comes from the Latin factura, from facere 'to make', and in art it kept the older idea of 'making' to mean an artist's method or style. So, facture in art means the way a work was made and how it looks.