Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of preparing oleographs.
- noun A process, devised by Moffatt, for identifying oils by the study of their characteristic lace-like patterns when floating on water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Art or process of producing the pictures known as oleographs.
- noun A process of identifying oils by their oleographs.
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Examples
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Ravi Varma was convinced that mass reproduction of his paintings would initiate millions of Indians to real Art, and in 1894 he set up an oleography press called the Ravi Varma Pictures Depot.
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His dazzling oil paintings of India's ancient glory delighted turn-of-the-century India and his mass reproductions through oleography reached out to the Indian populace in an unprecedented scale.
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