Quiz #3 (Chapters 7 and 8)

One of the advantages of oil painting is that it dries very slowly. This allows for:

A subtle blending of colors; the painting to be reworked indefinitely; the application of layers of paint on top of one another; an almost infinite range of consistencies

What is pigment in paint?

A powdered color

A watercolor that has been made opaque by adding inert white pigment to it

Gouache

The first acclaimed artist to understand and exploit oil painting was:

Jan van Eyck

Watercolor's primary characteristic is its:

Transparency

Characteristics associated with the fresco medium include:

Wet lime functions as a binder; mostly a wall-painting technique; Diego Rivera is known for his frescoes.

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to:

Wet plaster

In oil painting, linseed oil acts as:

a binder

Technically, tempera is paint in which the vehicle is in:

an emulsion

A nonaqueous paint is one that

dissolves in something other than water

By the 1950s, this new synthetic paint would challenge oils as the principal painting medium. What is it?

Acrylic

The painting technique used in the 1st century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax:

Encaustic

Two ancient painting media that are still in use today are:

Encaustic and fresco