Oil painting is described as the most flexible medium
1. Oil painting is described as the most flexible medium, after all, it suited the needs of both Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and De Kooning’s Woman. Discuss.
2. Why might it be that the popularity of fresco painting correlates with periods that feature a relatively stable and affluent society like Imperial Rome and the Italian Renaissance?
3. Jacob Lawrence claims that he chose to use tempera for his Migration Series for its “raw, sharp, rough” effect. Few other painters were working in this medium at that time. How might his work have been different if he used oil on canvas like everyone else?
4. Use one of the paintings mentioned, Starry Night or The Scream to explain how it is that the power in great painting is that it transcends perceptions to reflect emotional, psychological, even spiritual levels of the human condition.
5. What is it about the use of acrylics, especially applied with creative approaches like Pollock that breaks with traditional painting?
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