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gradation

In art, the gradual blending of one tint or tone with another. When painting, gradation can be most easily and effectively achieved by thinning down the medium or by adding progressively more white to lighten a tone. Darker tones can be created by the addition of blues, reds, or greens. Pastels and chalks lend themselves particularly well to gradation because they blend so well.


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By definition, however, classes are horizontal and gradational, inevitably layered with one small rich, privileged class at the top with all others beneath in descending order of wealth and power.
Change as a mode of being and the de-solidification of the physical world goes beyond locomotive and positional movement, and underscores the dynamism of the world-picture envisaged by Sadra's gradational ontology.
For the past several years, he has initially painted his surfaces with gradational bands of color, typically numbering from four to eight, progressing either from the lightest to the darkest values of a given hue or through a sequence of hues all of the same value.
 
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