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La Pittura
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Personification of painting. Emerges in 15th century. Painting considered one of the liberal arts
For the first time (joining rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astrology, and music) Ex. Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542. Fresco in the vault of the Main Room, Arezzo, Casa Vasari |
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Paint
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Pigments suspended in medium or binder
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Support
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surface on which the artist paints. Supports are primed with a ground (which makes support smoother or the texture more uniform)
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Encaustic
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Pigment combined with a
binder of hot wax. One of the oldest painting mediums, Used in classical Greece. Difficult and demanding to use. Ex. Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 |
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Fresco
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Preferred medium for wall painting. Buon Fresco: when paint is applied to a wet wall. Fresco Secco: when paint is applied to a dry wall.
Ex. Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before 79 CE |
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Tempera
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A painting medium by combining water, pigment, and usually egg yolk.
Ex. Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482 |
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Oil Painting
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Oil paint is far more versatile a medium than tempera; can be thinned, and is slow to dry. A medium using linseed oil as a binder that became particularly popular beginning of the 15th century. it can be blended on the painting surface to create continuous scale of tones and hues, many of which, especially darker shades, were not possible before oil paint's invention.
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Gouache
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Watercolor mixed with chalk. Opaque. Difficult to blend
Brushstrokes. Dries quickly. A painting medium similar to watercolor, but opaque instead of transparent. Ex. Jacob Lawrence. You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a quart, from the Harlem Series. 1942–43 |
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Watercolor
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A painting medium made of pigments suspended in a solution of water and gum Arabic to damped paper
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Synthetic Media (acrylic)
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(chemical interaction, accident)
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Collage
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The process of pasting or gluing fragments of printed matter, fabric, natural material, anything that is relatively flat- onto a 2-D surface. Gris is making a collage designed to raise the question of just what in art is “real”
Ex. Juan Gris. The Table. 1914. Colored papers, printed matter, charcoal on paper mounted on canvas |
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Combine
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Robert Rauschenburg's name for his works of high-relief collage.
Ex. Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59 |
