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Which is NOT a task for artist according to the text

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to help us see the world in the same way they see it

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According to the author the most important meaning of an artwork is

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what is means to the viewer

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tim harkinson's work of art, incorperates

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movement, expressiveness, technology, humor

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The most famous of Maya Lin's works is

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Vietman Veterans Memorial

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Dorothy and Herbert Vogel are

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art collectors

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Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to

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Paleolithic Period

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the most famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles, is called

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Stonehenge

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no society that we know for has lived without some form of art. the impulse to make and respoend to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the abilty to

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learn language

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the sculptor Constantin Brancusi spint his life searching for forms that were

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simple, timeless and pure

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Which are methods used by prehistoric painters

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animal fats and pigments mixed together, the use of reed brushes, and the pwder pigment blown through hollow reeds

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the nature of perception suggest that the most important key to looking at art is

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to become aware of the process of looking itself

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Wheel of Fortune was created by

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Audrey Flack

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Vanitas paintings meditate on

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the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness

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involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subjsect matter in art

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Iconography

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during the _______________the term "art" ws used roughly in the same sense as "craft"

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middle ages

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if a work of art is faithful to our visual experience. its style is

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naturalistic

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Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of

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installation

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according to the author, Leonardo da Vinci MOna Lisa dazzled his contemporarient because

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the portrait was almost miraculously lifelike

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Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because

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his work had a major infulence on the subsequent artist there are a limited numberl of his paintings he plays a roll in western art history his paintings allow the viewer to feel a connection with teh artist himself

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when discussing the size, shape, material, color, and compostiion of a work of art we are discussing its

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form

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Rebecca Purdum's chin up and KAndinsky's swinging have what in common

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both are norepresentational is style

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our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about

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the artist and the audience

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to discover why the sculptor of the AMida Nyorai depicts the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures and a bun atop his head requires the use of

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iconography

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Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

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Claude MOnet

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the term for extreme optical fidelity

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trompe l'oeil

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after much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that

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experts still debatet he work's iconograpy

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Robert Smithson's THe Spiral Jetty is an example of

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an earthwork

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Jeff Wall's A sudden Gust of Wind is a _____that refers to a _________.

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photograph; print

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Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the south are similar in all these except

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they share the same iconography

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often created equestrian statues of the emperors

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Romans

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according to the author, can a work a art have more thatn one theme

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a work of art may fall into more thn one theme

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artist Frida Kahlo is well known for her

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self-potrait

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whereas the christian image by Cimabue depicits the central figure surraounded by angels,t he buddhist image in this cha[ter shows central figure surrounded by

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bodhisattvas

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the Egyptians imagined teh _____ as resembling earthly life in every detail.

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afterlife

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Iconoclasm means the ____ of images based on the religious beliefs

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destruction

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the pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as

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tombs

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themes of art

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Sacred realm, politics and social order, stories and histories, the here and now, the human experience, invention and fantasy, art and nature, art and art

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a blacka-nd -white photograph of a scene eleiminates the hues and intensities oft he scenes colors but captures the____of the colors

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values

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whicho f the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"

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line

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common issues facing those who work to conserve works of art

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the effects of light, the work of earlier restorers, changing levels of heat and humidity, pollution

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the vanishing point in Leonardo da vinci's the Last Supper

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at the exact center of the picture, justbe hind the headoft he figure Jesus, andt on the horizon line

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in the additive process of mixing red light, greenl ight and blue light combine to produce ____light

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white

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Which artist uses light itself as teh main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world

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James Turrell

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a necessary feature in pattern

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repetition

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during the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art

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motion

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Charles White Untitled illustrates the technique of

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hatching

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mixing two primary colors produces a ____color

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secondary

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in albercht durer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nudethe, draftsmani s using a devicet o help him achieve the effects of

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foreshortening

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"Passive Pink" refers to the color that

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seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body

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the 18th century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and other watching musicians and the acrobats utilzes teh two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are

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position and overlap

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rather that depend solely upon visual unity,artist will sometimes create____ unity by unifying the ideas is a work of art

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conceptual

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the ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create inages of the "correct" or "perfect" hman, as have many cultures both ancient aand modern. this set of proportions was created using

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a square grid

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which workof art uses hierarchical scale

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a royal altar to the hand

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the architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor,a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based on

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the golden section

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Henry Ossawa Tanner's THe Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through

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size and placement of the figures directional linesof sightl eading to a focal point cantrasting values of dark skin against a pale background elimination of detail and bright colors in the background

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_____collaborated with Cleas Oldenburg to create the sculpture Plantoir

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Coosje van Bruggen

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in a two-deminional work witha summetrical balance, the appearance is achieved by

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distributing visual weight accordingly

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Edouard MAnet's A bar at the Folies-Bergere invites us to consider points of view in it subject and compostion. Interpertations of this painting include _____approaches

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formalist, Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic

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the use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as____scale

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proportional

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in art, the design principle of balance functions to

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encourage ou active participation in a work help communicate a works mood lead our eyes around a work help communicate a works menaing

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the Thirteen-Deity JNanadakini Mandala uses_____to suggest that there is a hidden orderin the universe

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symmetry

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what part of the pen convey the ink to the drawing surface

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the nib

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the style used by Georges Seurat in Cafe'-concert is

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pointillism

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Edgar Degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to

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make the drawing easier to copy

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because this 20th century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of hisl ife, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work

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picasso

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_______is among the materials besides paper that have provided support for drawings

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silk, papyrus, fired clay, cave walls

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the coloring material in vertually al drawing media in known as

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pigment

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de VINci used drawings to explore in

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science, engineering, art, math

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Raymond Pettibon

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creates large scale drawings with enormous physical presence

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the _____are credited with the invention of paper around 5ce

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chinese

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the difference inthe color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels is due to

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the use of differnet binders

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the predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the renaissance is

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metal point

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the metalpoint, lines are drawn witha silver____onto a suface coated with preliminary coating of paint

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wire

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Which 20th century atist panted the fresco mixtec culture

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diego rivera

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in fresco paintings, a drawing called a _____is transfered to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment

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cartoon

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what is pigmentin paint

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powder color

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the first artist to understand and exploit oil painting was

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Jan van Eyck

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watercolor's primary characteristic is its

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transperency

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one of the advantages of oil paintings is that is drives slowly. this allows for

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an almost infinite range of consistency a subtle blending of colors the papplication of layers of paint on top of one another the painting to be reworked indefinitely

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pisacco and braque, working side-by-side, glued bits of paper and other objects onto canvas to create

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collages

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

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Gouache

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pope jullius II employed with 2 itlaiian renaissance artist to paint fresco for him

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michelangelo and raphael

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considered oneof the leading figures in teh 20th century american art. the painter____studied as the harlem Art Workshop and wason e of many prominant artist to work for the WPA during the Great depression

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jacob lawrence

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a nonaqueous paint is one that

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dissolves in something other than water

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afterb uilding canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of

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primer

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in oil painting, linseed oil acts as a

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binder

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in buon fresco, or true fresco pigment ism ixed with water and applied to

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wet plaster

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which of the followingis a example ofa nonaqueous medium

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oil paint

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by the 1950's , this new paint would challenge oils as the principal painting medium

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acrylic

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2 ancient painting media that are still used today

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encaustic and fresco

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the 20th century master of the fresco technique who created the work MIxtec Culture is

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diego rivera

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