Author Question: Choose one example from the chapter and discuss how the artist has used a painting medium as an ... (Read 139 times)

karen · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

Choose one example from the chapter and discuss how the artist has used a painting medium as an expressive tool.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to a story relayed by Pliny, how did the Greek painters Zeuxius and Parrhasius deceive birds and artists?

What will be an ideal response?

ApricotDream · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include a discussion of Fred Tomaselli's Airborne Event, examining the powerful hallucinogenic effect created by combining materials such as pills, leaves, and insects with painted elements.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Zeuxis painted grapes that birds tried to eat, and Parrhasius painted a curtain on a picture that Zeuxis wanted to pull back.