Lesson 5: Artistic Skills & Techniques

• Collage

  • origin: French word "coller" which means "to glue"
  • gluing flat elements such as newspaper to a flat surface thus creating a new whole image.
• Four Types of Collages

  1. Papier colle - pasted paper or paper cut-out
  2. Decoupage - French word "decouper" means to "cut out"
  3. Photomontage - cutting and gluing other photographs to create a new image
  4. Assemblage - 3D images are created by adding found objects to a flat surface
• Decollage - translates to "take-off" or "to become unglued" or "to become unstuck"
• Frottage - French word for "rubbing"

  - developed by surrealist artist Max Ernst.
• Decalcomania - "decalguer" which means "to transfer"
• Printmaking - process of transferring images from a matrix to a surface
• Graffiti - Greek word "graphein" which means to write, scratch, draw
• Graffiti is also known as:

  • street art
  • spraycan art
  • aerosol art
  • subway art
• Types of Graffiti

  1. Street Gang Art - used by gangs in LA, Philadelphia, and New York to mark their territory.
• Types of Graffiti

  2. Anarchist Street Art - personal graffiti art, by far the largest category.

  - often described as the work of political or social activists
• Types of Graffiti

  3. Reverse Graffiti - create images by removing dirt from a surface
• Land Art - Art that is created in the natural environment, often involving the use of natural materials.
• Mixed Media - combination of media or materials

  - artists are not controlled by conventions, they experiment and reintroduces things in a new context
• Digital Art - digital technology is an essential part of the creative process
• Four Types of Digital Art

  1. Electronic-aided Digital Art
  2. Fantasy Digital Art
  3. Non-figurative Digital Art
  4. Digital Art as Design
• Four Types of Digital Art

  • Electronic-aided Digital Art - uses electronics in the process or presentation of the artwork
• Four Types of Digital Art

  • Non-figurative Digital Art - disregard figures, uses geometric shapes, lines, spaces, movement or color
• Four Types of Digital Art

  • Fantasy Digital Art - imaginary, images that are not seen in the real world
• Four Types of Digital Art

  • Digital Art as Design - satisfies the demand for digital art for the business and commercial industry