tempera
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For those, however, who take their painting with a dash of the occult, the tempera panels of Bu Shi at Sarahcrown will delight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024
The large tempera painting shows a group of colorfully clad people on a lawn, some eating or playing music, while others seem to be dancing.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
He preferred tempera, a medium he loved because it dried quickly and enabled him to achieve a feeling of decay.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
The present tense is moving forward, discarding concept after concept, and I am off to the side somewhere, fiddling with egg tempera and flat surfaces, as if the twentieth century has never happened.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing tempera
Visual Arts - High School
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Visual Arts - Middle School
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