The new medium of the latter half of the 20th century, and how pioneers like Sam Golden transformed it to make it suitable as a replacement for oils.
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Acrylics are too chemically complex for artists to prepare themselves, containing packaged blends of polymers with surfactants, and much more.
First popularised for use with glue tempera, ‘canvas’ quickly developed into the first choice for oils. In Venice, canvases as large as tennis courts were used by Veronese and Tintoretto.
Oils were king until the 1960s, when acrylic paints became readily available. How do they differ from oils, though?
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