It's sometimes fun to look at a painting and try to figure out what medium the artist used.

有时猜猜一部艺术作品所使用的材料很有意思。

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Oil painting is just a medium. You express your hope and love to the tradition with modern art language.

油画其实只是一个媒介、载体，您是用现代的艺术语言去表达你对传统的向往和热爱。

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As "the new medium", they distinguish from the traditional painting, sculpture, and analogous artistic category.

作为“新媒介”它们区别于传统意义上的绘画、雕塑及类似的艺术品类。

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It is a much faster medium than oil painting.

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He revived, and put to titanic use, the antique medium of fresco painting.

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Transporting the painting into such a different medium, however, took patience: The result is a mix of old-fashioned craftsmanship and the latest in digital film-making technology.

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In rejecting the one approach, Sir Ernst was almost bound to abandon the other, for both virtually airbrush away the one paramount thing that makes painting distinctive from the other arts: that it is a visual medium.

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