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a tiny window that swears the moment lasted forever, even though it didn't
means A border, usually rigid, that surrounds and protects a picture, photograph, or artwork while holding it up for display.
from A plain compound of "picture" and "frame." "Picture" comes from Latin "pictura" (a painting), from "pingere," to paint — the same root that gives us "pigment" and "paint." "Frame" is the older, homegrown word: Old English "framian," to be helpful or make progress, tied to the idea of constructing or shaping something, and a cousin of "from" and "forth" — the sense of building outward. So a frame was first a thing you fashioned or put together, and only later the made border around something. Put the two together and you get exactly what it says: a built edge made to hold a painted thing.
- golden ratio
- Old frames sized by mathematics, not just eyeballing
- empty frame trick
- Galleries hang voids to frame whatever you imagine
- gilding
- Real gold leaf thinner than a human hair
- stolen art
- Thieves cut canvases out, leaving frames hanging
the american gothic frame — wood frame in grant wood's 1930 painting, housed at the art institute of chicago
klimt's golden frame — ornate gilt frame around 'portrait of adele bloch-bauer i', valued at $135 million
vermeer's frames — simple dark frames used in dutch golden age paintings like 'girl with a pearl earring'