L2：
1. What is the lecture mainly about?
The different skills between impasto and oil painting
The effects of impasto techniques that artists can achieve
Reasons why the impasto texture remains experimental
Changes over time in the way impasto characteristics are created
2. Why does the professor mention icing on a cake?
To stress how easy it is to use the impasto technique
To claim that impasto involves the application of thin layers of paint
To make it clear that impasto should have a flat surface
To describe the type of appearance that impasto gives to a painting
3. According to the professor, why did fifteenth-century painters used impasto techniques?
To ensure that colors would not fade
To create deep, mysterious shadows in a painting
To give the sense that objects in a painting were reflecting light
To show the illusion of distance on a landscape painting
4. Why does the professor show a painting by Van Gogh?
To explain that he is the first artist who created the impasto technique
To illustrate that he used impasto to convey motion in his work
To show the effects of a thin layer of impasto
To suggest that impasto is more effective in landscapes than in portraits
5. According to the professor, why do some painters use impasto techniques today?
They have more options of tools to use than artists did in the past.
They want viewers to focus on the surface of a painting.
They are interested in changing painting styles of the past.
Their works with impasto are more precise than the works done in the past.
6. What two keys to using the impasto technique does the professor talk about? （多选题）
Applying a large amount of paint to a canvas
Pressing one layer of paint firmly into a canvas, then spreading more paint over the bottom layer
Paint over bottom layer
Applying paint to a canvas and then scrubbing it into the canvas E. Manipulating the paint with quick movements
