Painting

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Painting
Paints are applied to a support (canvas,
paper,wood panel, wall, etc.
The support can be prepped with a ground or a
primer (preliminary coating)
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Painting Technique
Trompe loeil Painting technique involving the
copying of nature with such precision that
painted objects may be mistaken for the actual
forms depicted.
Escaping Criticism, Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874
Oil on canvas
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Painting

• Composed of pigments and binder
• Types of painting
• a) Fresco-
• 1) Buon Fresco-True Fresco, pigment in
  water applied to wet plaster surface (changes
  made before drying)
• 2) Fresco Secco-Paint applied to dry
  plaster surface

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Painting

• Acrylic-Pigment ground with a synthetic polymer
• Spray paint-compressed air through an airbrush
  onto a spray surface
• Gouache-watercolor with Chinese white chalk added
  to create an opaque paint
• Encaustic-pigments mixed into hot beeswax,
  manipulated until it cools

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Diego Rivera, The Making of a Fresco, Fresco,
1931, San Francisco Art Institute
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Fig. 3.17 Jasper Johns. Flag, 1954-1955.
Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on
plywood, 41 1/4 X 60 5/8. Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
Painting
Fig. 3.18 Glass Bowl with Fruit. Wallpainting,
Fresco Roman, 1st Century, found in the Mt.
Vesuvius region, Italy. Museo Archeologico
Nazionale, Naples, Italy.
Two ancient paint media, still used today, are
encaustic (pigment mixed with hot wax) and fresco
(pigment applied to wet or dry plaster).
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Young Woman with a Gold Pectoral, from Fayum,
100-150 AD Encaustic on Wood , Louvre Museum,
Paris, 12 5/8
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Painting

• Tempera-Pigments mixed with egg yolk binder
• Watercolors-pigments suspended in a gum arabic
  binder (glue)
• Oil-Blending powdered pigments with linseed oil
  or turpentine (changes may be made before and
  after drying)

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Oil paint, like in the Venus of Urbino, allows
intense colors with lustrous surfaces. Acrylic
paint, while faster drying than oils and more
versatile, is suitable to flat broad areas of
color.
Fig. 3.20 Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). Venus of
Urbino, 1538. Oil on canvas, 4 X 56. Uffizi,
Florence, Italy.
Fig. 3.21 David Hockney. A Bigger Splash, 1967.
Acrylic on canvas, 8 X 8. Tate Gallery, London.
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Class Assignment Please conduct a formalist
analysis of this painting. Include the Principles
of Composition.
Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885, Oil on
Canvas, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam