Painting
Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630.
35 1/4 x 29 in.
Pigment: colored powders that make up the color of paint
Medium or Binder: a substance that holds the pigment together
Support: the surface on which the artist paints
Ground- a material that prepares or primes the support for painting
Solvent or Vehicle: a substance that thins a medium
Encaustic- colored
pigment mixed with wax,
applied when hot
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Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE.
14 x 18 in.
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Frescopigments applied
to a surface
(usually a wall)
that has been
covered in
plaster.
Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix,
Pompeii. before 79 CE.
35 x 48 in.
Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE.
Fresco
Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305.
approximately 70 x 78 in.
Fresco- painted in sections, as shown here, due to the plaster drying time -this is wet-on-wet fresco painting
Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94.
Fresco- this type of fresco painting is done by applying the pigment
mixed with water to dry plaster. This allows the artist to paint slower
without worry of drying plaster.
Tempera- colored
pigment mixed
with egg whites
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Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310.
10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in.
Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482.
80 x 123 1/4 in.
Tempera painting- many layers were used to achieve the translucency of the
clothing.
Andrew Wyeth. Braids. 1979.
16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.
Tempera painting
Oil paint- colored pigment mixed with oil, most commonly linseed oil.
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The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). The Annunciation
(The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.
central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.
Oil paint allows
artists to get precise
details and fine
rendering.
The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). Detail of The
Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.
central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.
Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating
the luminosity of the medium.
Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster. late 1640s.
25 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.
Oil painting
Antonio López Garciá. New Refrigerator. 1991–94.
94 1/2 x 74 13/16 in.
Oil painting
Odd Nerdrum. Summer
Oil on canvas
Watercolorcolored pigment
mixed with
water and gumarabic
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Xu Wei. Grapes. Ming dynasty, c. 1580–93.
65 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.
Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898.
14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.
Watercolor painting- the white areas are unpainted paper showing through
Gouachewatercolor
paint mixed
with chalk
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Jacob Lawrence. You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a
quart, from the Harlem Series. 1942–43.
15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Acrylic- colored
pigment mixed
with a synthetic
material, usually
latex.
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Helen Frankenthaler. Flood. 1967.
124 x 140 in.
Judith F. Baca. The Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail, Division of the
Barrios and Chavez Ravine. 1976–continuing.
height 13 ft. (whole mural more than 1 mile long).
Acrylic painting
Mixed-media
collage
Juan Gris. The Table. 1914.
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.
Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964.
13 3/8 x 18 3/4 in.
Painting
toward
sculpture
Marcia Gygli King. Springs Upstate. 1990–92.
6 ft. x 9 ft. x 10 ft. 6 in.; painting: 9 ft. x 5 ft. x 7 in.
John Cedarquist
Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59.
42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.
Combine-painting or high-relief collage