Art Appreciation: Medium and Technique
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- comes from the latin word, medium by which an artist communicates his idea
- The manner in which artist controls his medium to achieve the desired effect.
- It has something to do with the way he manipulates his mediums.
- These are the materials which are used byban artist to interpret his feelings or thoughts
- Many mediums are used in different works of art
- Differs in various arts
- One medium will be quite different from other artists
- Thise mediums that can be seen and which occupy space
- First dimensional and two dimensional
- Three Diemnsional
- Art of creating meaningful effects on flat surface by the use of pigments
- It is difficult to handle because it is difficult to produce warm and rich tones but it invites brilliance and a variety of hues
- An opaque watercolor painting the major effects of which are caused bu the paper itself.
- Painting on a moist plaster surface with colors ground in water or a limewater mixture.
- Mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk or egg white and ore
- Wooden panel that has been made with plater used in tempera
- A stick of dried paste made of pigment round with chalk and compounded with gum water. Very flexible medium
- Used by egyptians for painted portrait on mummy cases. It is done by painting with wax colors fixed with heat
- one of the most expensive art activities for today because of the materials. Pigments are mixed with linseed oil and applied to canvas.
- Used popularly by contemporary painters because of transparecy and quick-drying characteristics of watercolor and flexibility of oil
- Made up of small pieces of colored stones or glass which most often are cutbinto square glied on a surface with a plaster.
- Fabric consisting of a wrap upon which are woven by hand to produce design
- Usually done by paper using pencil, pen and ink or charcoal
- Very good training for artists brcause it makes one concentrate on the use of line.
- Most common medium in drawing
- Hard pencil
- Soft pencils are used to invite effects of mass and textures of gray
- One of the oldest mediums still in use
- Offers great variety of qualities, depending on the tools and technique used in application
- Comes in liquid form; favorite medium of comic strip illustrators and cartoonists
- Comes in solid sticks that are dissolved in water before they are used
- Brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood
- Pigments bound bybwax and compressed into painted sticks
- Carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or organic substances in the absence of oxygen
- Anything printed on the surface that is a direct result from duplicating process
- The printing or graphic image, is done in black ink on white paper and becomes the artist's plate
- Five major types of print
- This is made from a piece of wood. They just do the letter of the typewriter.
- Art of forming a design by cutting, corrosion by acids
- steel point with an oblique point and rounded handle for carving stone and engraving metal.