hoakley General, Life, Painting

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Charles Angrand (1854–1926), Interior of the Rouen Museum in 1880 (c 1880), oil on canvas, 114 x 154 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France. Wikimedia Commons.

This series examines different media used in visual art, in relation to painting.

Introductory

All in the caption
Anatomy of paintings

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Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), The Strongman (c 1865), oil on wood panel, 26.9 x 35 cm, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Microscopic paint cross-section by Elizabeth Steele at http://blog.phillipscollection.org/2014/02/26/happy-birthday-honore-daumier/. Courtesy of The Phillips Collection.

Media

Watercolour on paper
Glue as a binder, glue tempera
Pure pigment, pastels

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Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), The Chocolate Girl (c 1744-45), pastel on parchment, 82.5 x 52.5 cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Wikimedia Commons.

Faces frozen in wax, encaustic
Painted walls and ceilings, fresco
Painting with egg yolk, egg tempera

Anonymous, The Wilton Diptych (c 1395-9), egg tempera on panel, each panel 53 x 37 cm, The National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.
Artist not known, The Wilton Diptych (c 1395-9), egg tempera on panel, each panel 53 x 37 cm, The National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.

Sticks and crayons
Soot and milk, casein
Industrial chemistry, acrylics
Monotypes
Panorama
Gilding
Fans from Japan
Fans from Europe
Paint to print
Mosaic
Stained glass
Tapestry

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Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), William Morris (1834-1896) and John Henry Dearle (1859-1932), The Adoration of the Magi (1888), wool and silk tapestry woven on cotton warp in 1894, 258 x 384 cm, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England. Wikimedia Commons.

Miniature
Sculpture
Pottery

Oil painting

Sketch or studio?
Knives, fingers and long brushes
Surface texture

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Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail) (1889), oil on canvas, 73.2 × 93.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons.

Varnish and the mists of grime
Glazes and optical effects
En plein air
On a cigar-box
Oil on paper

Thomas Jones, A Wall in Naples (c 1782), oil on paper laid on canvas, 11.4 x 16 cm, National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Jones (1742-1803), A Wall in Naples (c 1782), oil on paper laid on canvas, 11.4 x 16 cm, National Gallery, London. Wikimedia Commons.

Oil on copper 1575-1610
Oil on copper 1620-1926

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Joseph Stella (1877–1946), The Apotheosis of the Rose (1926), oil on copper, 213.4 x 119.4 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.

Tondo
No binder at all
Secrets of the Masters
Oil studies

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William Powell Frith (1819–1909), Derby Day (study) (before 1857), oil on canvas, 39.4 x 91.1 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.

Pentimenti
Vast canvases

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Jacopo Tintoretto (c 1518-1594) and Domenico Robusti, Paradise (E&I 298) (1588-1592), oil on canvas, 700 x 2200 cm, Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Venice. Wikimedia Commons.

Artists

Goya’s experiments
William Blake’s fresco and tempera
Edgar Degas’s mixed media

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Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Danseuse basculant (Danseuse verte) (Swaying Dancer, Dancer in Green) (1877-79), pastel and gouache on paper, 64 x 36 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. Wikimedia Commons.