Word: temperament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Painting: Robert Berkeley Green, 25, son of a Pittsburgh chiropractor, for an egg tempera panel called County Fair...
...German primitive room of Munich's famed Old Pinakothek Museum, Grant Wood on one of his few trips to Europe saw a grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...
...more interest to outsiders than the depiction of Princeton's prowess at sports was the fact that Mr. Yarrow had executed his 13 murals in the technique used by the early Renaissance masters-egg-tempera emulsion...
...there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting is easier and quicker, but fresco and tempera do not fade. In Manhattan last week, one of the very few art courses...
...this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...