Paint: Paint is made up of 3 basic things: a pigment, a binder, and a carrier. Examples of pigments are red, yellow and blue. Examples of binders include acrylic polymers. Examples of carrier is water or linseed oil. Paint comes in many forms and at different levels of fluidity (viscosity) from solid blocks to watery, and each viscosity has its purpose.

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Paleolithic Art: The Paleolithic time period of Art History began around 30,000 B.C. It consisted of stone, wooden, and even ivory sculptures and engravings of animals, people, and gods. One of the most famous sculptures is the Venus of Willendorf, which is a depiction of an overweight woman with large breasts and no face, believed to have been used for fertility. One major indicator of this time period is that humans are depicted in front view.

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Pastels: Chalk-like crayons made of ground pigments mixed with water and binding medium. They are purchased in rectangular sticks or pencils and when rubbed off, are powdery and easily blended.

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Photorealism: Photorealism is a specific type of realism that depicts the image so realistically, that it can be mistaken for real or a photgraph, when in fact it is made from traditional media like graphite or paint.

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Picasso, Pablo: Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain. He lived through both World Wars and died April 8, 1973 at the age of 91 in Mougins, France. Pablo Picasso is famous for starting the art movement called Cubism, although his partner and rival, Georges Braque helped start the movement in 1909. He went on to change his style several times through his lifetime, having a blue period, rose period, and a surrealist-influenced period.

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Pigment: minerals, earth, or artificial coloring suspended in a medium and binder.

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Plein Air: Plein air painting is when one takes their easle and their paints and sits in the outdoors and paints from life. This is in stark contrast to painting in the studio. Plein Air painting was introduced by the Impressionists in the 1860's.

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Pointillism: Pointillism is a system of painting that focuses on color analysis, created by the French painter, George Seurat. The artist separates color into its component parts, and as one steps back from the canvas, the colors optically blend.

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Portrait: A portrait is a depiction of a person or animal where the artist tries to render the image as close to how the individual appears as possible. It also is the orientation of a rectangular drawing or painting surface where the short sides of the surface are on the top and bottom, and the long sides of the surface are on the left and right.

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Post-Impressionism: Post-Impressionism refers to a group of artists that painted during the latter part of the 1800's who wanted to restore decorative unity, formal organization, and expressive meaning to art. They broke away from representational art, which led to the non-representational art dominant in the 20th Century.

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Postmodernism: Postmodernism began after the end of the 1960's, when the world began to deal with social problems like drugs, divorce, crime, and commercial greed. It is characterized by an abandonment of Minimalism and Conceptualism, and a return to the historical, meaningful styles including figurative works.

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