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Paint in its most basic form is composed of_________ and a targeted binder.
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Pigment
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This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
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Pigment
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The binding agent in encaustic painting is_________.
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Beeswax
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Encaustic is usually painted on this kind of support:
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Wood
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The binding agent for tempera paint is________.
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Egg
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Tempera lends itself to high __________ because it is usually applied with a fine brush in short, thin strokers
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Detail
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Islamic an renaissance artists oftened used tempera in conjunction with oil and this material, which adds a rich appearance to the work.
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Gold leaf
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This painting process relies on freshly applied lime platter to hold the pigment in place.
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Fresco
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The earliest examples of fresco, found at the palace of knossos on the mediterranean island of _______, date to c. 1600-1500bce.
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Crete
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There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means dry fresco, and this kind, which means good fresco.
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Buba
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Diego Rivera's mural for Rockefeller Center in NY was removed because ________.
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It included a portrait of Vladimir Lenin,
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Taking 4 years to complete, the sistine chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the boon fresco method.
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Michelangelo
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This Flemish painter was credited during the renaissance with the invention of oil paint.
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Jan Van Eyck
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The process called glazing in which thin layers of oil paint are applied, appear lit from within, or are said to have a high degree of ________.
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Huminosity
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Camera Obscures is latin for _______.
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Dark Room
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