| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:BrokenContour |
| type | Art, Art Production, Art Realization, Concept, Painting Technique, Resource, Technique, Visual Arts, Watercolor Technique |
| broader | Edge Handling, painting technique, painting term, visual art term, watercolor technique |
| definition | An edge-handling approach in which outlines are deliberately fragmented, softened, or allowed to merge with adjacent marks rather than being rendered as continuous lines. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Broken contour |
| scope note | Related to but distinct from lost and found edges; emphasizes the physical fragmentation of the contour line itself. |
| skos:altLabel | Interrupted edge, Fractured contour |
| skos:exactMatch | Contour_drawing |