ART AND ARTISAN

• Artists


  • Work in the fine arts, including painting, illustration, and sculpture
  • Focus on creating aesthetically pleasing works
• Artisans


  • Work in textiles, pottery, glass, and other areas
  • Focus on accessorizing and functionality more than aesthetics
  • Make practical artistic products like earrings, vases, stained glass, and accessories
• Artisans' knowledge of the art


  Obtained by studying under a master craftsman and then practicing with continued study or experience
• Artists' work tends to be shown


  In museums or galleries
• Artisans sell their crafts

  At fairs and shops
• Artists and artisans translate their experiences into a form of art that can be perceived by other people using a particular medium
• Artist


  • Engaged in creating, practicing, or demonstrating art
  • Employs various visual techniques like composition, color, space, and perspective
  • Produces art in various forms like installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings, pottery, performances, dance, photography, video, film, and any other medium
• Curator


  • In charge of a collection of exhibits in a museum or art gallery
  • Responsible for assembling, cataloguing, managing, presenting, and displaying artworks, cultural collections, and artifacts
• Manager


  • Gallery owner or manager who chooses and presents art for sale
  • Manages both the creative and business sides of running an art gallery
  • Organizes art exhibitions, private sales, and loaning out art
• Consumers


  • Represent a significant segment of buyers in the art market
  • Connect with consumers online through social media
• Collectors


  • Buy art to build personal collections for various reasons, from aesthetic value to financial investment
• Art Dealer


  • Person or company that buys and sells works of art with the aim of making a profit
• Market players in the art industry

  • Schools
  • Museums
  • Galleries
  • Art spaces
  • Auction houses
  • Other industrial market platforms
• There are many other people in the art industry whose roles are interconnected and evolving as the world of art evolves
• Painting medium - Encaustic

  1. Application of a mixture of hot beeswax, resin, and ground pigment to an absorbent or porous surface, followed by the application of heat to set the colors and bind them to the ground

  2. Polishing with a cloth after the surface cools to give the wax a soft luster that heightens its translucent quality

  3. Used by Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans to paint portraits on coffins
• Encaustic painting process


  Application of heat to set the colors and bind them to the ground, cooling of the surface, polishing with a cloth to give the wax a soft luster
• Encaustic Paintings


  • Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used encaustic to paint portraits on coffins
  • Painting by C.M. Coolidge with 16 images of dogs sitting around a poker table and playing cards
• Tempera paints


  • Earth or mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk and egg white, dries up quickly making corrections difficult, traditionally used for painting on vellum and now on wooden panels surfaced with gesso
• Tempera Paintings


  • Not provided
• Fresco painting


  • Application of earth pigments mixed with water on a plaster wall while damp, color sinks into the surface becoming integral and permanent
• Fresco Paintings


  • Michelangelo’s fresco painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
• Watercolor painting


  • Pure ground pigment bound with gum arabic, applied in thin, almost transparent films, giving a delicate, luminous texture to the painting
• Water Color Paintings


  • Not provided
• Oil painting


  • Pigment ground in linseed oil, applied to primed canvas, slow to dry, allows for flexibility in application and layering
• Oil Painting


  • Not provided
• Mosaic art creates pictures on flat surfaces using small cubes or irregularly cut pieces of colored stone or glass called tesserae
• Mosaic Art


  • Empress Theodora and her attendant mosaic in the church of San Vitale at Ravenna Italy
  • Religious art in the Philippines at Sta. Cruz Church in Manila and Victorias Church in Negros Occidental
• Locations with altar designs

  • Sta. Cruz Church in Manila
  • Victorias Church in Negros Occidental
• Altar design at Sta. Cruz Church

  • Shows a wounded white lamb symbolizing Christ straddling a stream that flows down to the tabernacle
• Wall mosaic at Victorias Church

  • Depicts scenes from the New Testament with Christ, Mary, Joseph, and the Apostles in the garb of Filipino peasants
  • Tesserae used are bits of glass from beer, cold cream, and blue medicine bottles collected by the workers of the sugar central and their families
• Art forms


  • Mosaic art
  • Stained Glass
  • Tapestry
  • Drawing
• Stained Glass


  • Developed as a major art in Gothic Cathedrals
  • Purposes include admitting light, enlivening interiors, religious instruction
  • Derives effects from variations in light shining through it, made of translucent glass colored with metallic oxides or fixed onto the surface, cut into shapes, assembled into desired image held together by lead strips
• Stained Glass


  • Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City with lovely stained-glass windows showing scenes from the Battle of La Naval
• Tapestry


  • Decorated walls in palaces, castles, and chapels in Europe during the Middle Ages
  • Added color to interiors and retained heat from the fireplace
  • Fabrics with colored designs woven into them, weaver follows a pattern closely, shuttle used to weave each color thread as weft over the area where the color appears in the pattern
• Drawing


  • Most fundamental skill in the arts, all designed objects visualized in drawings before creation
  • Can be a sketch showing general organization or design, a cartoon for another work like tapestry or relief print, or a finished work in itself
  • Various media used for drawing including pencil, ink, pastel, and chalk
• Drawing


  • Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a woman's hands
• Drawing can be done with various media including pencil, ink, pastel, and chalk
• Sepia


  • Strong dark-brown ink, comes from the ink sacs of cuttlefish or squid
• Dry pigment mediums


  • Pastel
  • Chalk
• Dry pigment mediums


  1. Dry pigment held together with a gum binder and compressed into sticks

  2. Finished works of art are sprayed with a fixative to prevent pigment from rubbing off