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Mediums of Visual Arts

This document discusses different mediums used in visual art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. It describes various materials like pigments, oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, tempera that are used in painting. For sculpture, it mentions soft mediums like clay and hard mediums like wood and stone. Common building materials used in architecture are also outlined such as wood, stone, and steel. Specific artworks are provided as examples to illustrate the different mediums.

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Mediums of Visual Arts

This document discusses different mediums used in visual art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. It describes various materials like pigments, oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, tempera that are used in painting. For sculpture, it mentions soft mediums like clay and hard mediums like wood and stone. Common building materials used in architecture are also outlined such as wood, stone, and steel. Specific artworks are provided as examples to illustrate the different mediums.

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MEDIUMS OF VISUAL

ART
MEDIUM
• Refers to the materials
which are used by an
artist.
• Mediums have been
used in creating
different works of art.
• It is very essential to
PAINTIN
G
PAINTING
• The art of creating meaningful effects
on a flat surface by the use of
pigments.
• Each medium exerts a pronounced
effect on the finished product.
• The materials of the painter are
pigments applied to wet plaster, canvas,
wood or paper.
3 materials in
Painting
1.Pigments - a material that changes the color
of reflected or transmitted light as the
result of wavelength-selective absorption.

2.Binder - also known as a vehicle. It is oil


to which the base (solid powder like
substance) is mixed.

3.Solvent - dissolve or disperse different


components used in the paint formulation
(such as pigment).
Elements of Painting
1.Color - is at the heart of every painting
2.Tone - how light or dark a paint
3.Line - defines the subject of paintings
and helps us imply things such as movement
4.Shape - is an enclosed area that is made
when lines meet
5.Space - balance between positive and
negative space
6.Texture - interpreted as a pattern within
the painting
7.Size - the scale of the painting itself
OIL
• Pigments are mixed in oil
• Surface: canvas, wood, paper,
metal
• Most familiar type of painting is done
with oil in canvas
• Pigments can come from different
sources: minerals, vegetable matter, coal
tars
OIL
Two methods of oil painting:
• Direct Method – paints are opaque and
are applied to the surface just as they
to look in the finished product.
• Indirect Method – paint is applied in
many layers of transparent color.
OIL

“Maria Makiling” by Carlos “Botong” Francisco


TEMPERA
• also known as egg tempera
• is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium
consisting of colored pigments mixed with a
water-soluble binder medium, usually
glutinous material such as egg yolk.
WATERCOLOR
• Pigments are mixed with water and applied
to fine white paper.
• Good watercolor paintings are not easy to
make.
• Paper is the most commonly used ground.
• A medium familiar to every school child.
WATERCOLOR
PASTEL
• Most recent medium
• Possesses only surfaces of light, gives no
glazed effect, and most closely resembles dry
pigment.
• Pasteboard or canvas is used as support for
pastel painting paper.
• The painter is free to handle the material to
suit himself.
PASTEL

FLAMENCO DANCER
FRESCO
• Most popular type of painting
• Colors are mixed with water and applied to
fresh plaster
• Flourished during the 15th and 16th century
• Fresco means “fresh”
• The coloring must be ready as soon as the
plaster is put on the wall.
FRESCO

“The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo


ACRYLIC
• Newest medium and used widely by painters
today
• Synthetic paints using acrylic emulsions as
binder
• They are completely insoluble when dry and
can be used almost in nay surface
• They do not tend to crack
ACRYLIC
SCULPTURE
SCULPTURE

• is the branch of the visual arts that


operates in three dimensions
• In choosing a subject for the
sculpture, the most important thing
to consider is the material
• Substances available for sculpture
are limitless
SCULPTURE
Types of mediums in making sculpture:
 Soft medium - lend itself to a modelling
technique that uses squeezing and
shaping. Allows for the expansion of
gestures. (Ex. Clay)
 Hard medium- requires the process of
cutting and taking away from the block.
(Ex. Wood or Stone)
SCULPTURE
Two Major Sculpture Processes:
Subtractive process

Additive process

Two Types of Sculpture:


Relief
Free standing
SCULPTURE
STONE AND BRONZE – durable and resistant to
the elements, heavy and breaks easily. Marble is
the favorite material in Greece and Italy.
WOOD – polishes well and has a smooth shiny
surface and beautiful color. Popular in Paete, Pkil
in laguna.
IVORY – intrinsic value of the material. Like wood
it also cracks.
TERRA COTTA – plastic clay
STONE AND BRONZE

DAVID BY DONATELLO
METAL

KATIPUNAN REVOLUTION MONUMENT


BY EDUARDO CASTRILLO
WOOD
ARCHITECTURE

• Art of designing buildings and constructing


building
• From latin word “architectura”
• To fulfil a need that leads to its creation
ARCHITECTURE
• Wood – common building material (plywood)
• Stone – material used when permanence is
desired
• Steel – made possible the building of the high-
rise structures
ARCHITECTURE
Types of Construction
• Post-and-lintel
• Arch
• Cantilever
POST-AND-LINTEL
ARCH
CANTILEVER
THANKYOU!!!

Prepared by :
Angelica Castelo
Leana Linros Acedillo
Khaye Flores

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