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1aspotlight5222.docxARTS 1A: Spotlight on Technique 5
Oil painting
Watch the first video, “Laag voor Laag (Layer by Layer),” without using the closed-captioning button, as the film is already subtitled. Address the following question in your notebook:
1. What is the purpose of “underdrawing” in a fifteenth-century painting?
Watch the second video, “Conservation: Flowers in a Glass Vase Painting,” without using the closed-captioning button, as the film is already subtitled. Address the following question in your notebook:
2. The narrator of this video refers to Flowers in a Glass Vase as “a meditation on transience”. What does she mean by this?
Watch the third video, “How to Paint Like Mark Rothko: No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black),” and address the following question in your notebook:
3. Rothko often “stained” his canvases. What did he add to his paint to thin it sufficiently to be able to use his paint as a stain?
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