AP Art History : Understanding terminology that describes twentieth and twenty-first-century 2D art
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Example Question #297 : Renaissance To Contemporary 2 D Art
Which painting technique is used in the given image?
Licked finish
Impasto
Unione
ombre
Impasto
Impasto is a painting technique in which thick layers of paint are used and create real texture and depth in the painting, often leaving visible brushstrokes.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh#/media/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_Self-Portrait_-_Google_Art_Project_(719161).jpg
Example Question #298 : Renaissance To Contemporary 2 D Art
____________ is a style of art that reduces shapes and appearances to basic yet recognizable forms.
Abstraction
Realism
Naturalism
Surrealism
Abstraction
Abstraction is a style of art that reduces shapes and appearances to basic yet recognizable forms. For example, a stick figure is an abstraction of a human being. The form of the human figure is greatly reduced to its most basic components, but it still recognizable. Generally you can think of it as the opposite of naturalism, a style that seeks to reproduce the forms of things as they appear in nature.
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