Art Chp 11 - Techniques

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Who painted The Glorification of Saint Ignatius for the Church of Sant' Ignazio in Rome?
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Fra Andrea Pozzo
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Paintings that consist of three painted panels, such as The Annunciation [Mérode Altarpiece] by Robert Campin, are called?
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triptychs.
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Winslow Homer's A Wall, Nassau was made using?
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watercolor washes
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Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using what medium?
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encaustic
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With the technique of fresco secco, as illustrated in the Ajanta Buddhist caves, the artist?
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applies the paint into fresh plaster making the painting very durable.
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The Bodhisattva, painted with the technique of fresco secco, is remarkable because?
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it is so well-preserved since it was painted in such a dry environment
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Where is the focal point in Giotto's Lamentation?
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Jesus' head
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Antonio Lopez Garcia's New Refrigerator may seem like odd subject matter for a painting, but it actually falls within a long line of which of these artistic traditions?
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still-life
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A traditional ground for tempera paintings, which consists of a mixture of glue and plaster of Paris or chalk, is?
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gesso.
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The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called?
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oil painting.
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Watercolor painting is such a spontaneous process that many people think of it as?
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a tool for sketching
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When an artist paints with a mixture of watercolor pigment and Chinese white chalk, the process is called?
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gouache.
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Painter Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium?
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acrylic
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Artists can create a sense of luminous materiality in oil painting by brushing thin films of transparent color onto the surface, a process called?
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glazing
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Oil paint is exception in that it allows the user to do all of the following except to?
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work more quickly than in other media
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Mixed media artists have achieved what important innovation in art?
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the extension of a painting's "space" from two dimensions to three
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In European fresco painting from the early-Renaissance to the late Baroque, the goal of artists was to?
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create the illusion of real space and realistic figures
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Painting was largely considered a craft, lesser than other "arts" like poetry and music, until?
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the Renaissance
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Illusionism in fresco painting arguably reached its apogee in which work?
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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling
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How did Xu Wei, with paintings like Grapes, change traditional Chinese watercolor painting?
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He introduced a more free-form and expressive style
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What is the main advantage of using oil paint over other paint media?
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It dries slower allowing for more naturalistic development.
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Which of these is not a component of painting?
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vanitas
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What is the binder in "encaustic" painting?
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wax
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What is the substance in paint that holds the particles of pigment together and often defines the characteristics of the various painting media?
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binder
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Buon fresco painting can be described as?
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working with pigment directly into fresh plaster
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What is the chief advantage of acrylic paint over oil paint?
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It is longer-lasting