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  2. Spikenard - Wikipedia

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    Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in religious ceremonies ...

  3. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. For several centuries the oil painting has been perhaps the most prestigious form in Western art, but oil paint has many practical uses, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving examples of oil paint ...

  4. Visual art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work. [ 1 ] Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of ...

  5. Oil painting - Wikipedia

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    Oil painting. Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paints during the Renaissance period in the 15th century. Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel or copper ...

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  7. Behr (paint) - Wikipedia

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    www.behr.com. Behr Paint Company (stylized as BEHR) is a supplier of architectural paint and exterior wood care products to the American and Canadian do-it-yourself markets. BEHR manufactures interior and exterior house paints, decorative finishes, primers, stains and surface preparation products sold exclusively at The Home Depot. [2]

  8. Liquitex - Wikipedia

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    liquitex.com. Liquitex is a US company that supplies art materials, focusing exclusively on the development, manufacture and distribution of acrylic paints. Founded by Henry Levison as "Permanent Pigments" in 1955, the company created the first water-based acrylic gesso. That same year, Levison decided to reorganize the company under the name ...

  9. Paint - Wikipedia

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    Assorted tempera (top) and gouache (bottom) paints. Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer. As art, this is used to create an image or images known as a painting. Paint can be made in many colors and types. Most paints are either oil-based or water-based, and each has ...