Living with Art Chapter 6 & 7

Pastel

powdered pigment and a binder create this chalk medium.

Fresco

Painting done directly into plaster, Da Vinci's Last Supper is an example of this.

Acrylic

Paints consisting of pigment and polymerized resin are called

By and large, when did artists begin to explore "off the wall: painting techniques, moving beyond the traditional format of easel paintings?

1940s

Charcoal

Burnt pieces of wood compressed for drawing

Support

Canvas, paper, and wood panels are examples of ____, or the surface on which an artist paints.

Oil paints

During the 12th century, what painting medium became available to European artists for the first time?

Alla prima

Italian for "all in one go"

collage

Picasso and Braque first used this technique of gluing bits of paper and other objects onto canvas

tempera

Retains brilliance, aqueous medium, uses egg yolk or milk.

Acrylic

Starting in the 1950's ____ began to challenge oils as the principal medium for western painting.

Tempera

The modern artist Jacob Lawrence used ____ in his seres of paintings portraying the Great Migration because he preferred the "raw, sharp, rough" effect of the colors. Pigment Mixed with yoke.

Mosaic

____, an especially durable medium, once described as "painting for eternity," is composed of many small closely spaced tiles and can be used to decorate ceilings, floors, and walls in both indoor and outdoor spaces.

pigment

a powdered coloring material in virtually all drawing media, powdered coloring material, mixed with a finder for drawing, material ground from organic or chemical substances

Glaze

a thin veil of translucent color, achieved by thinning the paint with medium.

tapestry a weaving technique and the kind of cloth it produces

a weaving technique and the kind of cloth it produces

Encaustic paintings

are names after the Greek, are created by mixing pigment with wax

conceptual art

art created according to the belief that the essence of art resides in a motivating idea, and that any physical realization or recording of this idea is secondary

linseed, poppy seed, walnut oil.

binders used in oil painting

graphite pencil

common drawing medium, soft crystalline carbon, discovered in 16th century

Watercolor

paint comprised of pigment and gum arabic in a water vehicle

pen and ink

rembrandt's favorite medium, the nib conveys ink to drawing surface

metalpoint

the predecessor of graphite pencil and was popular during the renaissance, silver wire is set on the holder that leaves behind metal particle, mixture of white pigment, bone ash, water, glue

transparency

watercolor's primary characteristic, being clear, able to see through