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