Usage Note
Kreidezeichnung is a drawing made with chalk — white, red (Rötel), or black chalk — on paper or parchment. Renaissance masters used Kreidezeichnungen for figure studies. Feminine noun.
Examples
"Die Kreidezeichnung des Modells entstand in einer einzigen Sitzung."
Natural Translation
The chalk drawing of the model was made in a single session.
Literal Translation
The chalk-drawing of the model arose in a single sitting.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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