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Fresco is a technique where pigments are mixed with wet lime plaster on a fresh wall. As the plaster dries, the painting becomes part of the wall. Tempera is a permanent medium made of pigments mixed with an egg-based binder that was commonly used until 1500 AD. Pastel uses pure powdered pigments and a neutral binder to create colors close to dry pigments. Oil painting uses pigments bound with drying oils like linseed or poppy seed oil that impact properties like yellowing. Acrylic paint dries quickly and can resemble watercolors or oils depending on its consistency. Tapestry is a woven textile where different colored wefts form a pattern across a warp thread

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Humanities Assignment

Fresco is a technique where pigments are mixed with wet lime plaster on a fresh wall. As the plaster dries, the painting becomes part of the wall. Tempera is a permanent medium made of pigments mixed with an egg-based binder that was commonly used until 1500 AD. Pastel uses pure powdered pigments and a neutral binder to create colors close to dry pigments. Oil painting uses pigments bound with drying oils like linseed or poppy seed oil that impact properties like yellowing. Acrylic paint dries quickly and can resemble watercolors or oils depending on its consistency. Tapestry is a woven textile where different colored wefts form a pattern across a warp thread

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Fresco

Is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly-laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is
used as the vehicle for the pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of
the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco (Italian:
affresco) is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be
contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to
dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been
employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

Tempera

also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of


colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous
material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the paintings done
in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st
centuries AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500
when it was superseded by the invention of oil painting. A paint consisting of pigment
and glue size commonly used in the United States as poster paint is also often referred
to as "tempera paint," although the binders and sizes in this paint are different from
traditional tempera paint.

Pastel

is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a
binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored
art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation. The
color effect of pastels is closer to the natural dry pigments than that of any other
process. Pastels have been used by artists since the Renaissance, and gained
considerable popularity in the 18th century, when a number of notable artists made
pastel their primary medium. An artwork made using pastels is called a pastel (or a
pastel drawing or pastel painting). Pastel used as a verb means to produce an artwork
with pastels; as an adjective it means pale in color.
Oil

is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.
Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower
oil. The choice of oil imparts a range of properties to the oil paint, such as the amount of
yellowing or drying time. Certain differences, depending on the oil, are also visible in the
sheen of the paints. An artist might use several different oils in the same painting
depending on specific pigments and effects desired. The paints themselves also develop
a particular consistency depending on the medium. The oil may be boiled with a resin,
such as pine resin or frankincense, to create a varnish prized for its body and gloss.

Acrylic

is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic


paints are water-soluble, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how
much the paint is diluted with water, or modified with acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the
finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own
unique characteristics not attainable with other media.

Tapestry

is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. Tapestry is weft-faced


weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike cloth
weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In tapestry weaving,
weft yarns are typically discontinuous; the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back
and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft
threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design.

Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as linen or cotton. The weft threads are
usually wool or cotton, but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives.

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