Chapter 7: Painting

Using collage and encaustic, what artist painted Numbers in Color?

Jasper Johns

When acrylics are applied in thick, heavy layers, it is known as ______.

impasto

The colors used in tempera cannot be blended easily because tempera dries ______.

quickly

What is the leading characteristic of watercolor paints?

Transparency

Georgia O'Keeffe uses pastels in what ways for her piece White Shell with Red?

Emphasize the shell using the intense color Use water to lighten particular areas

Which are ancient painting techniques?

Encaustic Fresco

What inspired Georgia O'Keeffe to use simple forms and compositions?

European modernism

Chemist developed what 20th-century industrial paint using synthetic plastic resins?

Acrylic

A paint that combines pigments with a stable mixture of an aqueous liquid and either oil, fat, wax or resin is called .

Blank 1: tempera

How do ancient encaustic paintings' colors look as they age?

Bright as the day they were painted

What painting technique has the pigment mixed with water, and then applied to wet plaster?

Buon fresco

Which characteristics makes watercolor a desirable medium to work with?

Can be easily transported Create quick sketches Use paper for the support

How is A Goldsmith in His Shop by Petrus Christus different from Amy Sillman's piece Nut?

Christus uses the slow process of glazing.

How is gouache is different from watercolor?

Contains inert pigment to make it opaque

What did tempera painting allow Jacob Lawrence to do compared to other media?

Create a large number of paintings for his series quickly

By making series of paintings within a particular theme, what did Jacob Lawrence accomplish?

Create a narrative

Which best describes the painting technique called alla prima?

Does not use a preliminary drawing or plan and is done directly on the ground

Why did this funeral portrait deviate from the stylized look of Egyptian art?

Egypt was under Roman rule.

The School of Athens, a painting by the Renaissance artist Raphael that is featured in the Vatican Palace, exemplifies which painting method?

Fresco

What are some of the earliest encaustic paintings discovered?

Funeral portraits

Which medium is classified as both drawing and painting media?

Pastel

Why are the motifs in Mariposa prepared on pieces of plastic?

Helps to create a flat surface Makes it easier to remove the acrylic from

What influenced the works Jacob Lawrence created?

His personal experiences Mexican muralists Poor black neighborhoods

Holy Women at the Tomb by Girolamo dai Libri is what type of painting?

Illuminated manuscript

Which qualities best describe oil paint?

It can be applied in a range of consistencies. Areas can be easily scraped away for revisions.

What feature associated with acrylic makes it desirable for Beatriz Milhazes' piece Mariposa?

It dries into a waterproof plastic.

Holy Women at the Tomb by Girolamo dai Libri possess which characteristics associated with tempera?

Layers of paint to create form Brilliant colors

How does Winslow Homer blend colors in Key West, Hauling Anchor?

Layers were washed while the layers were wet.

Which aspects make acrylics desirable to work with?

Mimics effects of other paints Dries quickly

Traditional oil paints are diluted with what items?

Mineral spirits Turpentine

By adding washes while the previous layers are still wet in Key West, Hauling Anchor, Winslow Homer is able to do what to the colors?

Mix the colors to create subtle transitions

What subject matters did Georgia O'Keeffe primarily paint?

Objects from nature Desert landscapes

When melting the wax for the encaustic method, the artist adds what?

Powdered pigment

In oil paint, a ______ is a thin veil of translucent color, achieved by thinning the paint with medium.

glaze

Which qualities define the tempera medium?

Retains brilliance and clarity of colors for centuries Uses egg yolk or milk products as a binder Aqueous medium (uses water as a vehicle)

How does Amy Sillman use oil paints in the painting Nut?

Rework the piece using different techniques

How does Georgia O'Keeffe use scale in White Shell with Red?

She places emphasis on the form of the shell.

Generally, how were tempera paints made during the early Renaissance?

Small daily batches were mixed by workshop apprentices.

What is the technical term for the surface artists paint on?

Support

Georgia O'Keeffe had the goal of communicating what with her paintings?

The feelings she had as she viewed an object or landscape

How does the viewer recognize that this is an engaged couple in A Goldsmith in His Shop?

The girdle sitting on the counter

When water is added to pastels, what happens?

They thin and can be treated like paint.

When tempera is painted on a wood panel, how is gesso used?

To prepare a surface on to which pigments can be applied

How is a wash created using pastels?

Water

What paint is comprised of pigment and gum arabic?

Watercolor

What is gouache?

Watercolor with inert white pigment added

Watercolor and similar types of paints that are diluted with water are considered ______.

aqueous

Oil paints are composed of oil and ______.

pigments

With fresco, pigments are mixed with water and applied to a ______ support.

plaster

The artist Jacob Lawrence used ______ in his series of paintings portraying the Great Migration because he preferred the "raw, sharp, rough" effect of the colors.

tempera

Degas used ______ to blend the colors in The Singer in Green.

water

What paint consists of pigment and polymerized resin?

Acrylic

Which statements describe encaustic paintings?

It is created by mixing pigment with wax and resin. It is named after the Greek word for "burning in."

What symbols are referenced in Wifredo Lam's The Jungle?

West African Roman Catholic

The Jungle is able to create visual texture using what method?

Gouache's ability to create transparent and opaque layers of colors

Raphael connects the Golden Age of the Renaissance with what other golden age in School of Athens?

Greece

What usually provides areas of white in a watercolor painting?

Paper

Because Beatriz Milhazes is using the underside of the painted motifs, what is most important to creating the piece Mariposa?

Planning

What best describes the characteristics of watercolor seen in Winslow Homer's painting Key West, Hauling Anchor?

Textured paper with layers of translucent washes

What is added to pigments when using the encaustic technique?

Wax