Degradation phenomena
Surface Whitening
Crazing
An opaque layer formed by the fine network of interconnected surface cracks.COMMENT: COMMENT: Crazing is mostly found in the varnish layer on a painting, but sometimes also in the upper thin layer of the paint layer.
Literature
Barten J., Lagana A., van Oosten T., Seen from behind: Consolidation of painted works on poly(methyl methacrylate) by László Moholy-Nagy, 2017, in: Postprints of the ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference, Copenhagen, 2017, paper 0902https://www.icom-cc-publications-online.org/PublicationDetail.aspx?cid=09fa60e5-5539-496f-9547-2154b69323d6
Murray A., Contreras de Berenfeld, C., Chang, S., Jablonski, E., Klein, T., Riggs, M., Robertson E.C., Tse W.M.A., The Condition and Cleaning of Acrylic Emulsion Paintings, 2002, in: Symposium II – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI, vol. 712 II.14, pp 249-253
Surface Whitening
(White) HazeBlanching
Bloom
Crazing
Crizzling
Crust
Efflorescence
Ghosting
Protrusions/Aggregates
White Phenomena
Whitening