Intro to Art - SATH101

1. Painting

2. Encaustic
Fresco
Tempera
Oil
Watercolor
Gouache
Synthetic

3. Encaustic = combining pigment with a
binder of hot wax

4. Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE.
14 x 18 in.

5. Jane Nodine
Encaustic wax, graphite, iron oxide

6. Fresco = combining pigment with a
binder of limewater and then applied to a lime
plaster wall. Wall can be either wet or dry
Buon fresco = “true fresco” – applied to a wet wall
Fresco secco = “dry fresco” – applied to a dry wall

7. Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before
79 CE.
35 x 48 in.

8. Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE.

9. Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305.
approximately 70 x 78 in.

10. Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94.

11. Tempera = combining pigment with water and a
gummy material, usually egg yolk.

12. Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310.
10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in.

13. Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482.
80 x 123 1/4 in.

14. Andrew Wyeth. Braids. 1979.
16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

15. Oil Painting = combining pigment with and oil-
based binder, most commonly linseed oil.

16. Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating
the luminosity of the medium.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster. late 1640s.
25 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.

20. Antonio López Garciá. New Refrigerator. 1991–94.
94 1/2 x 74 13/16 in.

21. Pat Passlof. Dancing Shoes. 1998.
80 x 132 in.

22. Watercolor = combining pigment with a water and
gum arabic and applied to dampened paper.

23. Xu Wei. Grapes. Ming dynasty, c. 1580–93.
65 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.

24. Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898.
14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.

25. Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy), detail. 1998.
192 x 240 in.

26. Gouache = watercolor mixed with Chinese white
chalk. it’s opaque.

27. 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.

28. Synthetic Media = pigment suspended in a
synthetic binder.
Example – acrylic paints are made with mixing
pigment with acrylic resins – materials used to
make plastic.

29. Helen Frankenthaler. Flood. 1967.
124 x 140 in.

30. Mixed Media = the combining of various media.

31. 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).

32. Juan Gris. The Table. 1914.
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

33. Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964.
13 3/8 x 18 3/4 in.

34. 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.

35. Patricia Patterson. The Kitchen. 1985.
painting: 60 x 107 in; overall dimensions vary with each installation (as
illustrated: 80 x 144 x 180 in.).

36. Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59.
42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.