Practice question · True or false
The pigments used in fresco, tempera and oil are largely the same; it is the binder that differs.
Hints
- Ask which component changes between the media.
- Pigments are shared; binders are what define the medium.
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True
Why
True, and it is why the differences between the media are so instructive. The same coloured solid behaves completely differently in lime plaster, egg yolk and drying oil, so the visible differences between a fresco, a tempera panel and an oil painting are differences of chemistry rather than of palette.
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More questions on Painting I: What the Medium Decides
- Sort each capability by the medium that permits it.
- Why did the arrival of oil paint change the way a picture could be composed, not just how it looked?
- Jan van Eyck invented oil painting.
- Which follow from the chemistry of buon fresco?
- Complete the account of the media.
- Roughly how many days can an oil painting remain workable, allowing wet-into-wet blending?
- Arrange the stages of painting a buon fresco in order.
- Egg tempera and oil paint rely on identical pigments, yet produce entirely distinct visual styles. What…