Gesso

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Gesso is a solid coating made of a glue solution with chalk and white pigment added. Tinted gesso was often used in Medieval and Renaissance paintings. Gesso can be watered down and applied with a brush or applied with a putty knife when used in its thickened consistency. Another term used when painters choose not to gesso their surface is raw.  

NOTES
Source- Anne Bromberg, "Painting: Materials and Techniques," DMA research document, Education files, 1986-1987.

Should not use a rule based on the medium field, although if we do- it has 61 results as of July 2016 (and Jan 2017)
Rule based on tags links to 9 notes (Jan 2017)

Note was routed and reviewed by Sue in October 2017. her revisions have been made and the note is being tagged #routed until the changes are uploaded to GDocs, at which point it can be tagged #completed. I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. (EAS 2/28/2017) The note has been moved to Queta's folders for review.

Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)

Removed the concluding sentence- Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis stained acrylic colors into raw canvases.

This image was cataloged in Piction 2/27/2017. I am removing the %pictionJP and %UMO pending tags.

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IMAGE ASSETS 
  

The Image shows Gesso on a paintbrush.
Source: Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons, accessed August 3, 2016.
267925840: UMO
Also used as CC illustration.

WEB RESOURCES 

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

FUN FACTS 

TEACHING IDEAS 

RULES
apply to objects where medium contains gesso
apply to content where tag_value equals 300014952
rules_operator
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General Description
Gesso is a solid coating made of a glue solution with chalk and white pigment added. Tinted gesso was often used in Medieval and Renaissance paintings. Gesso can be watered down and applied with a brush or applied with a putty knife when used in its thickened consistency. Another term used when painters choose not to gesso their surface is raw.  

Fun Facts
 
Archival Resources

Web Resources
 

Notes
Source- Anne Bromberg, "Painting: Materials and Techniques," DMA research document, Education files, 1986-1987.

Should not use a rule based on the medium field, although if we do- it has 61 results as of July 2016 (and Jan 2017)
Rule based on tags links to 9 notes (Jan 2017)

Note was routed and reviewed by Sue in October 2017. her revisions have been made and the note is being tagged #routed until the changes are uploaded to GDocs, at which point it can be tagged #completed. I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. (EAS 2/28/2017) The note has been moved to Queta's folders for review.

Confirmed note updated in GDrive. Tagged completed and moved GDoc to Queta folder. (1/24/2017)

Removed the concluding sentence- Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis stained acrylic colors into raw canvases.

This image was cataloged in Piction 2/27/2017. I am removing the %pictionJP and %UMO pending tags.

rules
Apply To
Objects
medium
Contains
gesso
Apply To
Content
tag_value
Equals
300014952
tags
#draft
#completed
%inadequate rules
painting (image-making): AAT: 300054216
*Contemporary Art
@Schiller
*American Art
white (color): AAT: 300129784
*European Art
gesso: AAT: 300014952
.glossary
267925840: UMO
267925840: Image
source file
materials_and_techniques-0203.xml.nores