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The term used for referring to each of the basic colors of the spectrum is ________.
hue
The French artist Georges Seurat employed a new technique to create a jewel-like diffusion of light and vibration of color in his work The Circus. This type of painting, made up of small dots of color, is known as ________.
pointillism
This painting tool can be used to apply thick encaustic paint.
palette knife
Taking four years to complete, the Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by this artist in sections using the buon fresco method.
Michelangelo
This painting medium is transparent, applied to a paper surface, and has a gum arabic binder (the French version uses honey.)
watercolor
The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.
value
Henri Matisse was a member of the ________ movement, a group of artists who were especially focused on using color as intensely as they could
Fauvist
Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as ________.
funerary adornments
The binding agent for tempera paint is ________.
egg
The oculus in Andrea Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua is
just a painted illusion.
A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.
shade
Paint in its most basic form is composed of ________ and a liquid binder.
pigment
This painting process relies on freshly applied lime plaster to hold the pigment in place.
fresco
The Renaissance artist and writer Giorgio Vasari credited this Flemish painter with the invention of oil paint.
Jan van Eyck
What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?
the barmaid, bar top, liquor and wine bottles
We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.
saturation
This component of paint has traditionally been extracted from minerals, soils, vegetable matter, and animal by-products.
pigment
There are two types of fresco. Fresco secco, which means “dry fresco,” and this kind, which means “good fresco.”
buon
The transparency of oil paint allows a painter to use a process called glazing in order to add a high degree of ________ to a painting.
luminosity