Practice question · True or false
The tub sold as acrylic gesso is traditional gesso supplied ready-mixed, which saves making it up from chalk and glue.
Hints
- Ask what would happen to real gesso on a flexible canvas.
- The name is a marketing inheritance, not a description.
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False
Why
False. It contains no gesso: it is titanium white and chalk in an acrylic dispersion, flexible enough for canvas precisely because it is not the brittle chalk-and-glue material. The shared name is the reason students prime canvases with something that cracks.
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