Nabis Art Styles/Movements
(1888-1899) The art movement called Nabis was formed from a group of Paris artists. The group included Post-Impressionist illustrators and artists that played a big part in influencing the development of graphic art. The leader of the group was Paul Seriusier; he and the others were devoted to the work of Paul Gaughin and its color technique. They stressed putting a focus on design along with another art movement of the time called Art Nouveau. Key artists of Nabis included: Maurice Denis, Ker Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard.
Nathaniel Adams Furniture
Adams was a furniture maker from Boston, MA who studied under Thomas Edsall. He created American Jacobean furniture harnassing elements of the English Jacobean style that took place in the 1600s.
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Negative Film
The original film used to take the footage in the camera. From the negative, a positive print is created for editing. The negative is organized to pair up with the edited work-print and an answer print. It is used for a finished film’s projection.
Negative Cutter Film
The title given to the person responsible for the cutting and assembling of the original negative’s pairing up with the edited workprint. This is then sent to a lab to create the answer print.
Negative Space Drawing
Negative space in a painting or drawing refers to the area encircling or located behind a positive shape.
Nehemiam Adams Furniture
Nehemiam Adams (1769 - 1840) Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Adams was a furniture maker of the federal period.
Neo Expressionism Art Styles/Movements
An art movement that filled the art galleries in the 1970s and 1980s in both the USA and Europe. The term Neo Expressionism refers to a group of varied artists who decided to start painting objects and the figure in a more recognizable way than was the current norm at the time. The movement was a reaction against the stark, abstract intellectualized art made in the 1970s. Thick impasto and the stress on big heavy forms that related to historical narrative regarding allegory, myth and symbolism marked the artwork. The movement was propelled along by advertising methods, marketing techniques and galleries seeking to promote the artwork. Underlying all the artwork was an indifferent, sometimes cold emotional tone that reflected the values of the day, as well as to the actual representation of how objects appeared. The artists used a unique approach to their presentation of objects; the objects communicated a sense of loneliness, indifference and tension. The traditional way of composing a picture was thus put away, and they artists chose not to use rich or vivid color harmonies. Key artists of the period included: Julian Schnabel and David Salle from the USA, Sandro Chia and Francesco Clemente from Italy, and Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz from Germany. Because of its commercialized side and the encouragement of the public to purchase the art, as well as the actual questionable quality of the work, Neo-Expressionism proved to be rather controversial as people strove to understand how to embrace or react against the message and implications it brought.
Neoclassical Art Styles/Movements
(1750-1880) A French art movement that began as a reaction against the Baroque style filled with emotions and feelings, and the Rococo style that was rather stuffy and overbred. Its aim was to raise again the ideals of Roman and Greek art that included unemotional and often severe forms. The classic forms from the Roman and Greek era were used to share the artists’ ideas about things such as patriotism, sacrifice, and bravery. Examples of Neo-Classical artists include: Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova and Arnold Bocklin. The art movement Romanticism acted as a counter-balanced to this movement and both styles had a big influence on artists of the time and thereafter.
Nested Stories Graphic Design
Stories set in multiple columns at varying column depths in magazine publication layouts or newsletter layouts.
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Nib Width Calligraphy
In calligraphy, a nib width is the width of a tool’s edge. There are various sizes of nib widths. For example, a letter may be written at 8 nib widths high or at 4 nib widths high. A letter written with at 8 nib widths high will be twice as light as one written at 4 nib widths high.
Niccolo dell Abbate Artists/Craftpersons
Abbate (1510 - 1571) was an Italian painter trained in Modena and in Bologna. He was influenced by Correggio and Parmigianino. Abbate worked to decorate palaces with his elegant style. He is particularly known for his landscapes from mythological stories, becoming a precursor of sorts to Poussin and Claude.
Niche Market Business Art
Finding a niche market is essential for any artist to successfully sell his artwork. Understanding where and who potential buyers are is part of finding the niche market. An artist must also know how much he can charge for his art in relation to what other artists creating similar pieces are charging. Analyzing who has purchased artwork in the past and at what cost, as well as finding art agents, and licensees are other parts of finding one’s niche market.
Nii / Nee Anime / Manga
Nii or nee are honorific terms used in anime that translates as big brother or big sister.
Nikolai Abraham Abildgaard Furniture
Nikolai Abraham Abildgaard (1743 - 1809) In addition to being a Danish painter and neoclassical style interior designer, Abildgaard designed furniture. At first he designd the furniture for himself. Later, he designed furniture for the Danish family. He enjoyed copying ancient Greek furniture as can be seen in ancient pottery painting.
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Nitrate Cel Animation
Animation cels that were used until the 1940’s and 1950’s. Yellowing and rippling on the cels are signs of their aging.
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The standard commercial dimensions that a piece of timber or lumber is known and purchased at.
Non-Reflex Film
A type of camera that provides an image in the viewfinder through a separate lens. Examples of non-reflex cameras are Bell & Howell and older Bolex cameras. These cameras do not contain a “through the lens” view-finding system.
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nonreplaced elements Computer
An element can be classified as either a nonreplaced element or a replaced element. A nonreplaced element is an element whose content is viewed by the user agent within a box created by the element itself. Most elements in HTML and XHTML are nonreplaced elements, such as paragraphs, lists, table cells and headings.
Normal Lens Film
A normal lens is the spot between the widening of the image by the wide-angle lens, and the widening of the image by the telephoto lens. A normal lens is considered to be the 50mm lens in a 35mm, and in 16mm it is considered to be the 25mm lens.
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Nose Grease Film
A type of grease used to lubricate the pressure plate. It is coated over the side of the nose by a cameraperson.
Nose Room Film
The space between the edge of the frame and a person’s face when it is in profile. In general, the space surrounding the subject should be 1/3 behind and 2/3 in front of the subject’s head. It is considered a good thing if there exists excess space in front of the subject’s face (as opposed to behind the person’s head).
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Numbered Business Art
A numbered print is a print created to display the size or limit of a print edition; usually a number is written before the size of the edition. For instance, 15/200 would explain that a print is number 15 out of an edition of 200. Sometimes with older printing processes, having a print with a lower number signifies the printing of the print is of superior quality than the prints printed after it. However, with modern printing, this is not the case.