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Acrylic painting.
Although ‘acrylic’ has become a generic term for any synthetic paint medium, acrylics are a specific type of manmade polymer that has become standard in the commercial paint industry as well as widely used by artists from the mid-20th century; most synthetic paint media in contemporary artistic use are based on acrylic emulsions. Acrylics are thermoplastic, have great optical clarity and excellent light stability, good adhesion and elasticity and resist ultraviolet and chemical degradation. Their unique surface properties, transparency and brilliance of colour, together with the possibilities they offer for indeterminacy, immediacy, randomness and the ability to rework immediately and to achieve extremely thin or thick surfaces, are qualities that have been exploited fully by such painting movements as Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, and, subsequently, colour field painting, hard-edge painting and Pop art.
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- painting... (cont.)
- types... (cont.)
- architectural... (cont.)
- Netherlands, the: 17th cent.
- Netherlands, the: 19th cent.
- see also CAPRICCIOS; vedute
- bamboo
- battle
- Battle pictures and military scenes
- Battle pictures and military scenes, §1(ii): The 16th century: Documentary military art
- Belgium
- England
- France: Baroque
- France: 19th cent.
- Germany
- Italy
- Italy: Baroque
- Italy: Renaissance
- Italy: 16th cent.
- Netherlands, the
- Battle pictures and military scenes, §2(ii): The 17th century to the late 18th: Naval battles
- Frame, §V, 3(iii): The Netherlands and Belgium, 17th-century
- Netherlands, the, §III, 6(i): Painting and graphic arts, c 1800–c 1850
- Netherlands, the, §III, 6(ii): Painting and graphic arts, c 1850–c 1900
- Wouwerman, Philips
- Spain
- Sweden
- Venezuela
- see also MILITARY SCENES
- bird-and-flower
- China
- China, §V, 3(v)(b): Painting: Animals, birds and plants
- China, §V, 3(v)(d): Painting: Animals, birds and plants
- China, §V, 3(vi)(b): Painting: Bamboo, plum and ink-flowers
- China, §V, 3(vi)(c): Painting: Bamboo, plum and ink-flowers
- Korea
- bodegones
- boundary
- cabinet pictures
- camaieu see GRISAILLE PAINTINGS
- colour field
- conversation pieces
- court
- China
- China, §I, 8(i): Status of art: Artist
- China, §V, 3(iv)(b): Landscape painting: Theoretical writings
- China, §V, 4(i): Court painters
- China, §V, 4(i)(a): Court painters: Introduction
- China, §V, 4(i)(b): Court painters: Shang to Five Dynasties
- China, §V, 4(i)(c): Court painters: Song
- China, §V, 4(i)(d): Court painters: Yuan to Ming
- China, §V, 4(i)(e): Court painters: Qing
- drapery
- drip
- fancy pictures
- fêtes champêtres
- fêtes galantes
- flower
- four-colour
- genre
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