Meanings
- uncountableA process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process.
Kamagraphy, as the new technique is called, enables the printer to reproduce both the colour and the three-dimensional characteristics of the brush-stroke
1967, Art International, volume 11, page 941 more example
Here is what we have learned about kamagraphy (the process is only valid for canvases about to be painted and not for the reproduction of those which already exist).
1993, René Magritte, David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield, Oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, page 435
Origin
- Frenchkamagraphie
- Englishkamagraphy
From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967.
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