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Who painted The Glorification of Saint Ignatius for the Church of Sant’ Ignazio in Rome? |
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? |
triptychs. |
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Winslow Homer’s A Wall, Nassau was made using? |
watercolor washes |
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Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using what medium? |
encaustic |
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With the technique of fresco secco, as illustrated in the Ajanta Buddhist caves, the artist? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
gesso. |
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The painting process that allows for a continuous blending of tones and hues on the painting surface is called? |
oil painting. |
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Watercolor painting is such a spontaneous process that many people think of it as? |
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? |
gouache. |
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Painter Helen Frankenthaler moved from staining her canvases with oil to using which painting medium? |
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? |
glazing |
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Oil paint is exception in that it allows the user to do all of the following except to? |
work more quickly than in other media |
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Mixed media artists have achieved what important innovation in art? |
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? |
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? |
the Renaissance |
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Illusionism in fresco painting arguably reached its apogee in which work? |
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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How did Xu Wei, with paintings like Grapes, change traditional Chinese watercolor painting? |
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? |
It dries slower allowing for more naturalistic development. |
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Which of these is not a component of painting? |
vanitas |
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What is the binder in "encaustic" painting? |
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? |
binder |
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Buon fresco painting can be described as? |
working with pigment directly into fresh plaster |
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What is the chief advantage of acrylic paint over oil paint? |
It is longer-lasting |
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