Forms and MediaPart 1: Two-Dimensional Artwork
Week 3 Vocabulary
Art Forms: A technique or method that is used to create an artwork.
Craft: Works of art, either decorative or useful, that are skillfully made by hand.
Ceramics: The art of making objects of fired clay.
Two Dimensional: Artwork that is flat and is measured in only two ways: height and width.
Three Dimensional: Artwork that can be measured three ways: height, width, and depth.
Week 4 Vocabulary
Art Media: The materials we use to create art with.
Fresco: A tempera painting created on a wet plaster.
Montage: A collage made from photographs.
Mobile: A hanging sculpture that has moving parts.
Mosaic: A design made of tiny pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
Other Words To Know:
2D Media: Drawing, Painting, Collage, Printmaking, Graphic Design, Photography, Film, Computer Art
3D Media: Architecture, Environmental Design, Sculpture, Crafts, Industrial Design
Forms and Media
Read p. 18-19 and answer the following in your sketchbook:1. What is an art form?2. What is art media?
Forms and Media
What idea does this sculpture express?
Robert Anderson,Pablo Ruiz with Itch
Forms and Media
The medium of this two dimensional art is oil pastel. What is the art form if this work?
Two-Dimensional Artworks
Read p. 20-21 and answer the questions as we go along:
Drawing
What are the most common media for drawing?
Drawing
What are the most common media for drawing?◦Pencil, pen and ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk,
pastel, and computer software programs
In your sketch book:1. What is your favorite drawing medium?2. What is one drawing medium you would
like to try?
Painting
What are the most common media from painting?
Painting
What are the most common media for painting?◦Oils, tempera, watercolor, acrylics
What are the most common surfaces to paint on?
Painting
What are the most common media for painting?◦Oils, tempera, watercolor, acrylics
What are the most common surfaces to paint on?◦Paper, cardboard, wood, canvas, tile, plaster
Painting
In your sketch book:1. What is your favorite painting medium?2. What is one painting medium you would
like to try?
Collage
What are some typical things you may find in a collage?
Collage
What are some typical things you may find in a collage?◦Flat materials such as fabric, paper, etc. ◦Drawing materials◦Painting materials◦Cellophane◦Foil◦Photographs
Printmaking
What is the main process or idea for printmaking?
Printmaking
What is the purpose of printmaking?◦Transferring an inked design from one surface
to another.
Printmaking
What are the most common printmaking processes?
Printmaking
What are the most common printmaking processes?◦Gadget, stencil, relief, monoprint, lithography,
etching, and silkscreen.
Monoprinting
What makes monoprinting different than other types of printmaking?◦In other printmaking processes, an art can print
a single image many times. ◦In monoprinting, the image can only be printed
once.◦Mono = one
2D Media
Read p. 22-23 and answer the questions as we go along:
Graphic Design
What are sine examples of graphic design that you can find in the classroom?
Think About It
How does a rainbow zebra express “to be good is not enough”?
Marvin Mattelson, Subway Poster for School of Visual Arts
Think About It
What do you believe this digital design is used for?
Photography, Film, and Computer Art
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work.
What theme do you think Lange is trying to portray here?
Photography, Film,and Computer Art
Sketchbook Homework:◦Tape or glue in a photograph that means
something to you. Explain in 2-3 sentences why it means something.
Three-Dimensional Artworks
Read p. 24-25 and answer the questions as we go along:
Architecture and Environmental Design
What do we call someone who designs buildings?
What does this type of person do?
Architecture and Environmental Design
What do we call someone who designs buildings?◦Architect
What does this type of person do?◦Designs how the building will look and function.
Architecture
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio.
How does the design of this building suggest its use?
Architecture and Environmental Design
What do we call someone who designs parks, landscapes, and other outdoor space?
Architecture and Environmental Design
What do we call someone who designs parks, landscapes, and other outdoor space?◦Environmental Design
Sculpture
What are some different examples of sculpture?
Sculpture
What are some different examples of sculpture?◦Statues, mobiles,
relief sculpture
What are some of the traditional media used to create sculptures?
Sculpture
What are some different examples of sculpture?◦ Statues, mobiles, relief
sculpture
What are some of the traditional media used to create sculptures?◦ Wood, clay, metals,
stone, glass, plastic, wire, and found objects.
Crafts & Industrial Design
Read p. 26-27 and answer the questions as we go along:
Crafts
What does the term crafts refer to?
Crafts
What does the term crafts refer to?◦Artworks made by hand that are both pratical
and beautiful.
Crafts
What are some examples of crafts?
Crafts
What are some examples of crafts?◦Ceramics, fiber arts, mosaics, and jewelry
making.
Ceramics
Ceramics are objects that have been made from clay, then fired in a kiln.
Fiber Arts
Fiber Arts are objects that have been woven, stitched, or knotted from materials such as wool, silk, cotton, and nylon.
Mosaic
A mosaic is a design made of tiny pieces of colored glass, stone, and other materials.
Jewelry
What examples of jewelry do we see in our classroom on our classmates?
Think About It
How do you think this was made?Which part of this was made first (the bird or
the background)?
Byzantine Fragment with Bird
ThinkAbout It
Why was this car designed with this shape?What factors should industrial designers think
about as they design cars?
Industrial Design
What is an industrial designer?
Industrial Design
What is an industrial designer?◦Artist who design
3D products for mass production.
◦They design everything from spoons to chairs to bicycles to cruise ships.
Think About It
Look around our room. What examples of industrial design do you see?
Sketchbook
In your sketchbook:◦For 5-10 minutes, sketch an object designed by
an industrial designer in our room. ◦Write down:
What materials were used to create the object? What is the function of the object? If you were to design a similar object, how would
you change it?
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