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EDUCATION

AND

APPRECIATIO

NINSTRUCTOR: MS. RASALYN B.

CERICOS



CHAPTER 2THE ARTIST’S

MEDIA



Many mediums have been used

in creating different works of art.

ARCHITECT

- Uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stones, concrete,and various building materials.

PAINTER- Uses pigments on wood or canvas to recreate

reality of nature.

SCULPTOR

- Uses steel, marbles, bronze, metal, and wood. MUSICIAN

- Uses sound and instruments to communicate itssubject and literary writers uses words in

literature.



medium, the artsare primarily

classified as

visual and

auditory



VISUAL

ARTSAre those whose

mediums can be seen and

which occupy space.



- are those whose medium can

be heard and which are

expressed in time.-There are

1. music

2.literature.

AUDITORYARTS



COMBINED

ARTS- Are those whose mediums can be both

seen and heard, and these exists in both

space and time.

- These are:

- 1. dance

- 2. the opera

- 3. the drama

- 4. the movies.



Artwork grasps the

meaning of a significant

events or similar

sequences consisting

chiefly of a series ofcontinuous incidents are

also known as



All arts convey

meaning and thesemay be enjoyed

through either visualor auditory sense or



THE ARTIST AND HIS

MEDIUMThe artists feels, and gives shape to

his vision in terms of his medium.

-

The artist loves and respect hismedium.

- Each medium has its own

characteristics which determinethe physical appearance of the

finished work of arts.



THE ARTIST AND HIS

TECHNIQUE

- Apparently, artist differ from one

another ion technique even if they use

the same medium.

- Technique differs in the various arts.

- An artist’s technique in one medium

will be quite different from the

technique in another.

- For an artist, technique is not the end

but the means, while the craft man,

technique is the end.



MEDIUM OF THE VISUAL

ARTS

Visual are those arts that are

perceived with our eyes. The

most common visual artsare:

-painting-sculpture

-architecture



PAINTIN

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- Painting is that art of creating

meaningful effects on a flat

surface by the use of pigments.- DO YOU THINK PAINTING USE

DIFFERENT MEDIUMS?

- The materials of the painter arepigments applied to wet plaster,

canvas, wood, or paper.



WATERCOLOR

- As a medium is difficult tohandle because it is difficult to

produced warm and rich tones

but invites brilliances and a

variety of hues.

- Gouaches- an opaquewatercolor painting the major

effects of which are caused by



FRESCO- This is painting on a moist plaster

surface with colors ground in water or

a limewater mixture.

- The colors dry into plaster, and thepicture becomes a part of the wall.

- The image becomes permanently fixed

and almost impossible to remove.Example: “The Creation of Adam”

- Michaelangelo’s painting



ENCAUSTIC-

This is one of the earlymediums used by the

Egyptians for the painted

portrait on mummy cases.- This is done by painting with

wax colors fixed with heat.- Painting with wax produces

luster and radiance in the

subject making them appear at



OIL- Oil painting is one of the most

expensive art activities today because of

the prohibited cost of materials.

- It is the heaviest of painting media.

- In oil painting, pigments are mixed with

linseed oil and applied to the canvas.

- One good quality of oil paints as amedium is its flexibility.

- Painting done in oil is glossy and lasts

long.



STAINED

GLASS- Stained glass as anartwork is common inGothic cathedrals and

churches.- This is made by

combining many small



TAPESTRY- This is fabric consisting of a warp

upon which colored threads are

woven by hand to produced

design, often pictorials, wallhangings and furniture covering.

- During the Middle Ages, they were

hung on the walls of palaces and

in cathedrals on festive occasions

to provides warmth.



DRAWING- Is usually done on paper using pencil, pen

and ink, or charcoal.

- It is the most fundamental of all skills

necessary in arts.- Drawing has always been considered as

very good training for its artists because itmakes one concentrate on the use of line.

- Shading can also be used to make drawingmore life-like and realistic.

- Some of the world’s best-known drawingare by the Iltalian artist Leonardo da Vinci(1452-15-19)



BISTRE- Bistre is a brown

pigments extracted from

the soot of wood , and

often used in pen and

wash drawings.



CRAYONS- Crayons are pigments bound

by wax and compressed into

painted sticks used fordrawing especially among

children in the elementary

grades. They adhere betteron paper surface.

-



CHARCOAL- These are carbonaceous

materials obtained byheating wood or other

organic substances in theabsence of the oxygen.

-

Charcoal is used inrepresenting broad massesof light and shadow.



SILVERPOINT- In this medium, the artist has

a technique of drawing with

silver stylus on speciallyprepared paper to produce a

thin grayish line that was

popular during the

Renaissance period.



PRINTMAKING- A print is anything printed on a surface that is

direct result from duplicating process.

- One of the advantages of printmaking is theprocess of making many copies of the originaldrawing.

- Today, printmaking maybe categorized as painting

because it has long been acknowledged as anindependent art.

Five major types of prints

1. Woodcut

2. Engraving

3. Relief

4. Intaglio

5. Stencil printing

Each print can be distinguished by the plate made.



1. WOODCUT-As the name implies, this is made

from a piece of wood.

- the design stands as a relief, the

remaining surface of the block

being cut away.

-A woodblock prints just as do theletters of a typewriter.

-Woodcuts can be identified

because of their firm, clear and



3.RELIEF- Relief printing involvescutting away from a

block of wood orlinoleum the parts of the

design that the artistwants to be seen, leavingthe portion of the third



4. INTAGLIO- Is a printing process inwhich a design or the

text is engraved intothe surface of the plate

and the ink transferredto paper from the

groover



5. STENCIL PRINTING

- Stencil printing is a verycommon art activity done

by high school studentsthese days as part of

their practical artscourses

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