Art Techniques

Wood Cuts

* high demand bcs increased literacy
* can be printed in books in 1000s bcs of printing press(1450)
* surface+ gouges underneath
* stark contrast w little deatil- little sense of artists hand
* Albert Durher- samson (1497-98)

Wood Engraving

* replaces wood cuttting in 2nd half of 15th cenutry
* use of finer, sharp instruments
* end of wood bloc
* intk forced into lines- not surface printing
* more delicctae lines- greater sense of artists hand
* emerge bcs of printing press like wood cuts

Tempra

Up to 1400s favourite technique is tempura

egg mixed w pigments

dries quick

sharp+ clear

flat

no blending

matte

Oil Paint

* invented or reinvented in 1410
* oil dries slow- detail
* can produce diff text
* oil paint glows- light reflects
* aplies in layers called glazes
* colours rich+alive
* becomes popular in NE

Chairoscuro

* Sharp contrast of light + dark to create dramatic effect
* Baroque invention
* Enhance drama + excitement
* Builds space
* invented in 16c

Teborins

* Kind of chairoscuro
* Spotlight effect
* Dark pure black
* Lit brilliantly 
* Enhances drama by abolishing depth

Linear Prespective

* invented or reinvented by brunellschi
* 3 things needed
* horixon line
* vanishing point
* orthogoals (always to vaanishing point)
* early 1400s

Sfumato

* smoke
* no sharp divisions
* blending
* what makes mona lisas smile so mysterious(1503-06,1517)
* invented in renessance ?
* invented 1483 by davinci

Atmosperic/Aerial Prespective

* objects far away turn blue/green and blur
* close=more red
* invented or reinvented in renassance
* invented early 15c

Buon(true) Fresco

* Plaster on wall, make design
* Paint on wet plaster
* Paint part of wall
* Extremely durable
* used all the way back to archaic period
* example giottos lamentation(1306)

Fresco Secco

Paint dirrectly on wall

flakes

example the last supper (1495-98)

Intaglio

* metal- usually copper
* coat w thing that repels acid
* draw through coating
* put in acid bath
* eat through where scrapped away
* link run through press
* extrodinary details