Painting

Question 1

Oil

Answer 1

– In use since the beginning of the 15th

century, oil paint

1. provides a tremendous range of color possibilities,
2. can easily be reworked,
3. provides many options for textural manipulation, and
4. is durable.

Question 2

Watercolor

Answer 2

– a transparent medium applied to paper, producing delicate images.

Question 3

Tempera

Answer 3

– an opaque watercolor medium that is fast drying, eliminates brushstroke, and provides extremely sharp detail.

Question 4

Fresco –

Answer 4

a wall painting technique in which pigments suspended in water are applied to fresh, wet plaster, thus making the painting part of the wall. The result is long-lasting, but difficult to change.

Question 5

Primary Colors

Secondary Colors
complementary colors

Answer 5

primary colors – the three basic colors of pigment from which other colors are produced: red, blue, and yellow

secondary colors – the three colors that are produced by combining pairs of primary colors

– colors found directly opposite each other on the color wheel

Question 6

complementary colors –

Answer 6

colors found directly opposite each other on the color wheel

Question 7

palette

Answer 7

– the range of colors used by an artist in a painting

Question 8

impasto

Answer 8

– a painting technique wherein pigment is applied thickly to a canvas with a palette knife, producing a very thick projecting paint texture

Question 9

chiaroscuro –

Answer 9

the depiction of highlight and shadow to give the appearance of three-dimensionality in a painting

Question 10

Closed composition

Answer 10

is the drawing of the eye’s focus into the painting through the use of line and form.

Question 11

Open composition

Answer 11

is the drawing of the eye’s focus out away from the painting through the use of line and form.

Question 12

Focal points or focal areas are

Answer 12

established in painting by

convergence of line,

contrast of color, and

encirclement.

Question 13

Linear perspective

Answer 13

is a means by which artists indicate spatial relationships within a painting by using a vanishing point into which lines merge, creating a sense of distance.

Question 14

Painters do what?

Answer 14

make forms look three-dimensional by means of chiaroscuro and perspective.

Question 15

Compositional elements in painting include

Answer 15

color (palette),

line,

  form,

   texture, 

     dynamics,

      chiaroscuro,

        perspective,

          balance,

            unity,

              repetition and alternation,

                and focal points.

Question 16

Continuous narration

Answer 16

is the depiction of more than one scene of a story within a single painting.

Question 17

Pointillism

Answer 17

was a new painting technique developed by the Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, in which thousands of tiny dots of paint are applied to the canvas.