Art Appreciation 2.2 – Flashcards
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Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
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pigment
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This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
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pigment
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This is not a traditional paint binder.
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lye
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This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.
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palette knife
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The binding agent for tempera paint is ______.
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egg
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Tempera lends itself to high ______ because it is usually applied with a brush in short, think strokes.
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detail
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This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.
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fresco
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The earliest examples of fresco, found at the Palace of Knossos on the Mediterranean island of _______, date to c.1600-1500 bce.
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Crete
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This painting binder is a by-product of flax production and first came into common use during the late Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance.
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linseed oil
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The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.
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Jan van Eyck
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The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add high degree of ______ to a painting.
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luminosity
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Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique, created applying thick layers of paint to a surface.
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impasto
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_______ can create many different effects, depending on how it is applied. Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.
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Oil paint
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Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self portrait of the artist with a paint brush in hand.
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oil paint
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This contemporary painting medium uses a polymer resin as a binder.
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acrylic
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One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
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water
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This Japanese-American artist used acrylic paint to express the relationship between American and Japanese cultures.
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Roger Shimomura
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This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey).
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watercolor
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This painting medium is opaque, applied to a paper surface, and uses gum arabic binder.
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gouache
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This German artist's naturalistic depiction of Hare was created using a combination of watercolor and gouache highlighting.
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Albrecht Durer
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This medium is made of pigment suspended in water so that it adheres to the fibers of paper to which it is commonly applied. Usually there is a small amount of gum arabic in this medium, and it most often uses only black pigment.
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ink
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This Japaneses artist exploited the rich, dark value of ink painting to capture the characters of a river by moonlight.
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Suzuki Shonen
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This painting technique was used by prehistoric cave painters of Lascaux, France, and is still used by contemporary graffiti artists.
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spray paint
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This tag artist started out creating graffiti art in New York City subway cars before producing museum works like Aeroplane I.
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Crash (John Matos)
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We have discovered paintings at Lascaux in France that have been made by artists dating back ______ years.
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18, 000
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the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork, or to a system of measurement
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Scale
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the material on which a painting is done
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Support
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a very realistic or lifelike style of making images
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Naturalism
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the artistic skill or trick of making something look real
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Illusionism
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art that represents objects in an exaggerated way to emphasize certain aspects of the object
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Stylized
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a bright, glowing quality
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Luminosity
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European artistic and architectural style of the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries, characterized by extravagance and emotional intensity
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Baroque
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not transparent
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Opaque
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a book produced by an artist, usually an expensive limited edition, often using specialized printing processes
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Artist's book
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in spray painting or silkscreen painting, a barrier the shape of which blocks the paint
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Mask
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a perforated template allowing ink or paint to pass through to print a design
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Stencil
