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
At the Farnsworth, an exhibition focusing on four of Wyeth’s first tempera paintings created from 1937 to 1939, alongside multiple studies, underscores a turning point in his career.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Or I paint in egg tempera, the technique of monks.
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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