Masking (in Art)
In art, craft, and engineering, masking is the use of materials to protect areas from change, or to focus change on other areas.
Masking can describe either the techniques and materials used to control the development of a work of art by protecting a desired area from change; or a phenomenon that (either intentionally or unintentionally) causes a sensation to be concealed from conscious attention.
The term is derived from the word "mask", in the sense that it hides the face from view.
Read more about Masking (in Art): In Painting, In Photography
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“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)