Four Important Painting Terms-
- Media: vehicle that carries pigment (color), such as linseed oil, acrylic, tempera, or watercolor
- Genre: general classification for subject matters, such as landscape, portrait, still-life, etc.
- Idiom: The "isms" in Art History, Impressionism, Expressionism. Modernism, Cubism, Surrealism, etc.
- Exemplar: Artist or Painter used as an example of someone who painted in a given idiom. Claude Monet might be an exemplar for Impressionism, whereas Rene Magritte would be for Surrealism.
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