Painting

Key Vocab Terms

Fresco

Water based paint applied onto wet lime or gypsum plaster

Italian for Fresh

Chalky, opaque, matte, relatively cheap

Hard/impossible to be indecisive when using

Giornata

"Day Patches" (plural = giornate

The amount of fresco painting accomplishes in one day

Linear Perspective

Creating an illusion of depth on a 2d image by systematically making parts smaller towards a vanishing point

Tempera

Permanent fast drying medium, combing egg yolk as a binder

Oil Painting

Much more transparent

Look for softness

Italian Renaissance

Aims of the renaissance was naturalism and interest n the natural world, convincing illusion of 3D

Chiarosuro

"light-dark" meaning modeling through strong constrasts between light and dark

Sfumato

Smoky contours

Brushstrokes

The marks of the painters brush on the surface of a painting

Impressionism

An idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, an effect, produced on someone, an imitation of a person or thing

Tried to capture a fleeting moment

Came after renaissance when it died away because of photography, could do more subjective works

Impasto

Thickly applied paint that stands up above the surface its applied to

Abstract

Communicating meaning through formal properties than imitating material objects

Abstract Expressionism

A movement in NYC in 1940s using abstrac paintings to expres emotion

Action Painting

The kind of Abstract Expressionism practiced by Jackson Pollock in which the emphasis on the artists creation process

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