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Synonyms poster color, poster colour, poster paint
Type of water-base paint

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Other tempera artists, such as Robert Vickrey, regularly depict Surreal imagery.
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Oil and tempera on wood, National Gallery, London, on loan from Longford Castle.
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Unlike the oil paint used by most artists today, tempera produces a matte effect.
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Soon he was experimenting with egg tempera, a medium used in medieval painting.
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This tempera and gold leaf on panel is on view at the Getty Center through Feb.
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As early as the 13th century, oil was used to add details to tempera paintings.
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Today I saw a new one, tempura instead of tempera when discussing egg based paint.
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Tempera paint colors can also be as varied or as unified as you would like them to be.
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The paintings are in egg tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long.
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  • Pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
  • Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size). Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. ...
  • A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques
  • A method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with an emulsion of water and egg yolks or whole eggs (sometimes glue or milk). Tempera was widely used in Italian art in the 14th and 15th centuries, both for panel painting and fresco, then being replaced by oil paint. ...
  • Classically, paintings made with pigments bound in an egg medium. Used in illuminated manuscripts and Orthodox icons.
  • A water-based paint that uses egg, egg yolk, glue, or casein as a binder. Many commercially made paints identified as tempera are actually gouache.
  • A type of paint incorporating dry color, (usually chalk or powder), a glutinous substance, (such as egg yoke or gum), and water. Tempera was the most commonly used medium until the introduction of OIL PAINT.
  • Paint made using yolk or white of egg as carrier, mixed with pigment. Water-soluble. Used widely before the introduction of oil paint.
  • Tempera painting was above all used for Medieval art. The pigments are mixed with water and a bonding agent (egg yolk, glue, wax or resin). The resulting emulsion dries quickly and cannot be re-worked.