CH 7 Painting - Chapter 7 notes for online textbook for ART 200. PDF

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Chapter 7 notes for online textbook for ART 200....

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● Paint is made of pigment (powdered color), compounded with a medium/vehicle, (a liquid that holds the particles of pigment together without dissolving them). Vehicle includes a binder (ingredient that ensures that the paint will adhere to the surface) ● Paints are applied to a support (canvas, paper, wood panel, wall, surface which artist works). Supports can be prepared to receive paint with a ground/primer (preliminary coating) Encaustic ● Pigment with wax and resin ● Colors are heated = wax melts and paint can be brushed easily, wax cools and paint hardens, may be final “burning in” to fuse colors ● Ancient Greece ● “Young Woman with a Gold Pectoral” ● “Numbers in Color” - Jasper Johns Fresco ● Pigments mixed with water and applied to plaster support ● Fresco Secco: “dry fresco” ● Buon Fresco: “true fresco” where paint made of pigment and water is applied to wet lime plaster ● Wall-paintings, large scale murals ● Requires planning and physical labor ● Cartoon: full-size drawing of entire project ● Permanent ● Italian renaissance ● “The School of Athens” - Raphael ● Most celebrates = Mexico ● “Mixtec Culture” - Diego Rivera Tempera ● Shares qualities with watercolor and oil paint ● Aqueous medium ● Dries tough, insoluble film ● Retain brilliance and clarity ● Vehicle is an emulsion, which is stable mixture of an aqueous liquid with an oil/fat/wax/resin ○ Egg yolks ● Gesso: mixture of white pigment and glue that sealed the wood and could be sanded and rubbed to a smooth ivorylike finish ● “St. Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold” - Master of the Osservanza ● Jacob Lawrence = Harlem Renaissance

Oil ● Pigment compounded with oil ○ Linseed oil, poppy seed oil, and walnut oil, safflower oil ● Originated in Europe ● “A Goldsmith in His Shop” - Petrus Christus ● Wood panels to canvas ● Dries very slowly, more time to manipulate paint ● Painted wet on wet, can be scraped away ● Wide range of consistencies ● Glazes: thin veils of translucent color like stained glass applied over a layer of opaque paint ● Alla Prima: direct painting, wet on wet, painting completed all at once ● “Nut” - Amy Sillman Watercolor, Gouache, and Similar Media ● Pigment in a vehicle of water and gum arabic ● Most common support is paper, intimate art ● Transparency ● “Mountain Stream” - John Singer Sargent ● Gouache = inert white pigment added, colors are opaque ● “The Jungle” - Wifredo Lam ● Ink sticks = chinese ○ “Mountains Clearing After Rain” - Chang Dai Chien Acrylic ● Acrylic resin, polymerized through emulsion in water\ ● As it dries, resin particles form a tough, flexible, and waterproof film ● Impasto: “paste” a thick application of paint ● Dry quickly and permanent ● “Mariposa” - Beatriz Milhazes Painting and Beyond ● Easel Paintings: term for paintings executed on an easel or similar support ● Came into prominence during the Renaissance ● “One Floor Up More Highly” - Katharina Grosse Idea of a Painting ● Painting without paint ● “Black Venus” - Mark Bradford

Sumptuous Images ● Mosaic: small, closely spaced particles called tesserae embedded in a binder such as mortar or cement ● Tapestry: particular weaving technique, and also to wall hangings made using it...