Enlargement

DEFINITION

A larger version of an image or of a work. Making an enlargement is sometimes called a bump up or a blowup.Example: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) and Workshop, Venus and the Lute Player, c. 1565-70, oil on canvas, 65 x 82 1/2 inches (165.1 x 209.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (On the Met's page, you can enlarge any detail.)Among the most reknowned enlargements of the 20th century were paintings by Georgia O'Keefe: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), Yellow Jonquils # 3, 1936, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 1/4 inches, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. See nature. Georgia O'Keefe, Pink Shell with Seaweed, c. 1937, 22 x 28 inches, pastel on paper, San Diego Museum of Art, CA. See volute.Also see aliased and anti-aliased, close-up, detail, panorama, telephoto, wide-angle lens, and wide-angle shot.