DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES OF

PAINTING

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Acrylic Painting
• Acrylic painting, painting executed in the medium of synthetic acrylic
resins.
• Acrylics dry rapidly, serve as a vehicle for any kind of pigment, and are
capable of giving both the transparent brilliance of watercolor and the
density of oil paint.
• They are considered to be less affected by heat and other destructive
forces than is oil paint. They found favor among artists who were
concerned about the health risks posed by the handling of oil paints and
the inhalation of fumes associated with them.
• Notable 20th-century artists who used acrylic paint include Pop artists
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Op artist Bridget Riley, color field
artists Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Barnett Newman, and British
artist David Hockney.
Anamorphosis Painting
• Anamorphosis, in the visual arts, an ingenious perspective technique
that gives a distorted image of the subject represented in a picture when
seen from the usual viewpoint but so executed that if viewed from a
particular angle, or reflected in a curved mirror, the distortion
disappears and the image in the picture appears normal.
• Derived from the Greek word meaning “to transform,” the term
Anamorphosis was first employed in the 17th century, The first
examples appear in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. It was regarded as a
display of technical virtuosity.
• Two important examples of Anamorphosis are a portrait of Edward VI
(1546) that has been attributed to William Scots, and a skull in the
foreground of Hans Holbein the Younger’s painting of Jean de
Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors (1533).
Sand Painting
• Sand painting, also called dry painting, type of art that exists in highly
developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American
Southwest and in simpler forms among several Plains and California
Indian tribes.
• Sand paintings are stylized, symbolic pictures prepared by trickling
small quantities of crushed, colored sandstone, charcoal, pollen, or
other dry materials in white, blue, yellow, black, and red hues on a
background of clean, smoothed sand.
• About 600 different pictures are known, consisting of various
representations of deities, animals, lightning, rainbows, plants, and
other symbols described in the chants that accompany various rites.
• Today many of the paintings have been copied both to preserve the art
and for the record.
Encaustic painting
• Encaustic painting, painting technique in which pigments are mixed
with hot liquid wax.
• Artists can change the paint’s consistency by adding resin or oil to the
wax. After the paint has been applied to the support, which is usually
made of wood, plaster, or canvas, a heating element is passed over the
surface until the individual brush or spatula marks fuse into a uniform
film.
• This “burning in” of the colors is an essential element of the true
encaustic technique.
• Encaustic wax has many of the properties of oil paint: it can give a very
brilliant and attractive effect and offers great scope for elegant and
expressive brushwork. The practical difficulties of using a medium that
has to be kept warm are considerable, though.
Action painting
• Action painting, direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that
involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping
brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto
the canvas.
• Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of
painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared
onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
• The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself
as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.