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In buon fresco, or “true fresco,” pigment is mixed with water and applied to:

This photograph is famous as the beginning of pure/straight photograph. It was taken by this artist, who was an early champion for photography as its own art form:

Italian for “dry fresco,” this type of fresco occurs when pigment is mixed with water and applied to a dry plaster support:

This intaglio printmaking technique uses acids which “eat” (or bite) into any area on the printing plate from which the artist has removed the protection of the acid-resistant substance (or ground):

The commissioned art installation Shibboleth, a title that references a biblical story of belonging and not belonging, was comprised of what?

This paint consists of pigment in a vehicle of water and gum arabic; it is characteristically transparent and usually applied in thin translucent washes and dries quickly:

The post-impressionist artist, Georges Seurat’s distinctive technique using tiny dots of pure color is called:

Maria van Oosterwijck’s Vanitas is an example of what role that art plays?

This photographic movement refused to try and make photographs look like paintings (as in pictorialism) and made it a point not to crop or manipulate their photographs in any way:

From the Italian word meaning “to cut” this printmaking method is different from relief printing in that areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate.