Art app

• Medium


  Refers to the materials which are used by an artist. A means by which he communicates his ideas.
• Medium


  Refers to the materials which are used by an artist, a means by which he communicates his ideas, very essential to art
• Mediums for Visual Art

  • Sculpture
  • Drawing
  • Painting and the Related Arts
  • Print Making
  • Photography
  • Architecture and the Related Arts
• Painting refers to the process of applying pigments (colors) on the smooth surface (paper, cloth, canvas, wood or plaster)
• Encaustic


  Application of a mixture of hot bee wax, resin, and ground pigment to any porous surface followed by heat application
• Encaustic Painting


  • Saint Catherine's Monastery
  • Autumn Leaf by Mitzi Humphrey
  • A painting by Edward Fielding
• Tempera


  Mineral pigment mix with egg yoke and egg white, paint dries quickly, corrections are difficult to make
• Tempera Painting


  • Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna
• Fresco


  Application of earth pigment mixed with water on a damp plaster wall
• Fresco Painting


  • The Creation of Adam
  • Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
• Watercolor


  Tempered paint made of pure ground pigment with gum Arabic, Gouache is opaque and less transparent
• Watercolor Painting


  • Jedburgh Abbey
  • The Blue Boat by Winslow Homer
• Oil Painting


  Pigment ground in linseed oil applied to primed canvas, has to be thinned with oils, turpentine or other solvents
• Oil Painting


  • Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Gogh
• Acrylic


  Synthetic paint using acrylic polymer emulsions as binder, transparent and quick-drying like watercolor, flexible like oil
• Mosaic


  Wall or floor decoration made of small cubes or irregular cut pieces of colored stone or glass
• Mosaic


  • The Virgin Mother and Child
  • Empress Theodora and Her Attendants
• Stained Glass


  Window decoration made of irregular cut pieces of colored glass
• Stained Glass


  • Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City
• Tapestry


  Large fabrics in which a design is woven by hand, firm texture to shut out cold and preserve heat
• Drawing refers to the initial or fundamental sketch of painting, one of the most common due to its general utility especially for making rapid notes
• Pencil


  Drawing medium
• Silverpoint


  Drawing with thin pieces of silver wire held in a stylus on prepared paper, used before graphite became popular
• Ink


  Drawing medium, Pen and ink drawing describes the process of using pens to apply ink to a surface
• Bistre


  Very dark shade of grayish brown pigment made from soot
• Pastel and Chalk


  Dry pigment held together with gum binder and compressed into sticks, chalk used in preliminary sketches
• Crayons


  Pigment bound by wax and compressed into sticks, adhere well to paper but don't lend themselves to gradations
• Charcoal


  Art that makes use of charcoal, brought into limelight by artists like Matisse and Picasso
• Charcoal Drawing


  • Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile by Pablo Picasso
  • Knight, Death, and The Devil
• Printmaking


  Graphic image that results from a duplicating process
• Relief Printing


  Prints what is left on the surface, involves cutting away from a block the portions not wanted
• Intaglio Printing


  Prints what is below the surface, uses techniques like engraving, drypoint, etching
• Stencil Process


  Prints through an open area, uses techniques like silkscreen printing
• Planographic Process


  Prints what is drawn on the surface, uses lithographic process based on grease repelling water
• Photography


  Process or practice of creating a photograph, an image produced by the action of light on a light-sensitive material
• Sculpture


  Three-dimensional form constructed to represent a natural or imaginary shape, can be produced through subtractive (carving) or additive (molding) processes
• Sculpture


  • Free-standing or in the round (can be seen from more than one position)
  • Relief sculpture (from a flat background)
  • Kinetic sculpture (with movement as a basic element)
• Stone


  Relatively soft and porous materials like limestone and sandstone, fairly easy to carve
• Sculptural process


  Malleable material is molded into three-dimensional form
• Free-standing or sculpture in the round

  • Can be seen from more than one position
  • Some contemporary critics and museum curators refer to this as statuary, reserving the term sculpture for "those in the round but penetrated or pervaded by space"