The bank clerk did not go and collect the decalcomania from the car but with a sour look on his face asked Jerezano for his passport, compared that passport line by line with the first Xerox copy, then with the second copy. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
Ironically, the face itself belongs to a Swiss artist who creates distinctive, hyper-colored, collage-like abstract paintings through techniques such as decalcomania and grattage. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
The silver seal in the center was the windshield decalcomania. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
Decorations are applied by decalcomania, hand painting, embossing, etc. From Wordnik.com. [European Lithographic | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
The fifth and sixth principles of the rhizome are those of "cartography" and "decalcomania". From Wordnik.com. [Rhizome@Internet] Reference
The hat with movement is like a free-hand sketch, a hat without movement like a decalcomania. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
Tenencias decalcomania below that, and handed Jerezano his plates and documentation with a cheery. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
Then she told Jerezano where on his windshield to put the decalcomania, wished him a good day and thanked him for coming to Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
There he was met by Roque's replacement (Roque had gone to lunch) who slapped the Legalization decalcomania on the windshield, then the. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
On the 4th, he removed the Texas plates from the car, installed the Zacatecas plates, scraped the controversial import decalcomania from the windshield and threw it away. From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
The figure from Dalí's "City of Drawers" was used on the cover of The Atrocity Exhibition in 1970 but for me the matching of Ernst's decalcomania masterpiece "The Eye of Silence" is far more successful. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers] Reference
A few years later, he came up with "grattage" (the application of frottage to painting), then "decalcomania" (a kind of random paint spreading), and finally "oscillation," which let a paint-filled perforated can splatter patterns over canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Playing With Perception] Reference
It is almost superfluous to mention the variety of purposes to which decalcomania may be applied, as it can be transferred upon everything for which ornamentation is required, and the variety of designs which are printed especially for it is so great that something may easily be procured to suit the taste of the most fastidious. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
I remember once decorating a card for Mother with some decalcomania pictures. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Porcelain] Reference
As we grew older we came to realize that cockamamie was merely a child's distortion of decalcomania. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
Some of them, you will observe, are filling in designs that have either first been printed, or transferred by the decalcomania process, and must afterward be finished by hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Porcelain] Reference
"As, if buying you sweaters ain't enough without your leaning plumb up against the fire escape and stamping a whole decalcomania of red stripes on your back like as if you were a convict.". From Wordnik.com. [Carl and the Cotton Gin] Reference
I've learned decalcomania, and after I take up lustre painting I shall have it simply stiff with drapes and tidies and placques and sofa pillows, and make mother let me have a fire, and receive my friends there evenings. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm] Reference
Not only Duchamp and Man Ray, as Rick says above, but more so Ernst and Dominguez’s frottage and decalcomania. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca] Reference
The teller said: "Where's the decalcomania?". From Wordnik.com. [Tramites: Mexican Paperwork----ouch!] Reference
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