chapter 9 Flashcards
Various painting media have developed in response to artists’ desires to ___________________
and ____________________________________________________________.
imitate and Express Themselves
Painting = ________________+__________________ As in drawing, artists use pigments, or powdered colors, suspended in a medium or binder that holds the particles of pigment
together.
pigment & binder
_____________: The surface of which an artist paints - a wall, a panel of wood, a sheet of paper,
or a canvas.
support
Encaustic = ________________+__________________ One of the oldest painting media. Used for funeral portraits by Ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
pigment & wax
Fresco = ________________+__________________ (limewater) Very durable – the paint
becomes part of the wall, but the artist must move very quickly. Typically created in sections –
what the artist can complete in a day. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel is an example.
pigment & plaster (lime water)
Tempera = ________________+__________________ Color is not be easily blended. Extremely durable and softly glowing surface. Botticelli used as many as 30 coats of color to create his
Primavera.
pigment & egg
Oil = ________________+__________________ Can be blended on the painting surface to create a continuous scale of tones and hues, many of which, especially darker shades, were not
possible before oil paint’s invention. Dries very slowly allowing the artist plenty of time to rework the surface. Can be applied heavily for a textured affect, or in thin, translucent layers.
pigment & linseed oil
Josephine Halvorson, Rackstraw Downes both physically go outside and paint the environments
around them. This is called _____________________.
Plein air
________________ - Still life, memento mori (i.e. reminder of death/brevity of life), elevate the viewer’s thinking, focuses on spiritual not material world. Jan de Heem’s “Still Life with
Lobster” is an example of this.
vanitas
Watercolor = ________________+__________________ Thin solutions of pigment and binder have the appearance of soft, transparent washes, while dense solutions can become almost
opaque. Tends to be very gestural and expressive. Hard to correct mistakes.
pigment & gum arabic
Gouache = ________________, ________________+__________________ Lends itself to the creation of large, flat, colored forms. Jacob Lawrence uses gouache on paper to create his You Can Buy Bootleg Whiskey for Twenty-five Cents a Quart.
pigment, watercolor, & chalk
Synthetic media/Acrylic = ________________+__________________ Creates the “look” of oil paint but none of its frustrating characteristics –dries much faster, thinned with water not
turpentine. Very durable for outdoor painting like murals.
pigment & plastic
Acrylic paint in aerosol cans also known as ______ ________ is the foundation for graffiti art.
graffiti art
____________is the process of pasting or gluing fragments of printed matter, fabric, natural material - anything that is relatively flat - onto a two-dimensional surface.
collage
The definition of space is extended in the hands of mixed-media artists from the traditional two-dimensional to three-dimensional space. Kara Walker projects light and images onto_____________ on the wall in order to implicate the viewers in the scene in her Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)
viewers shadow
