The Visual Arts

Materials & Process

Vocabulary

• Media• Disciplines• Process• Two-dimensional• Three-dimensional

Media in 2-Dimensional Art

DRAWING

PRINTMAKING

a medium that includes elements of drawing, painting, and carving

Printmaking

• print. Any one of multiple impressions made from a master image

• Different printmaking processes-certain techniques

• Matrix, tools, ink, press, chemicals

Printmaking Processes• RELIEF• INTAGLIO• Lithography• MONOTYPES• SILKSCREEN

PAINTING

Painting

FRESCO• Painting on plaster, either dry (fresco secco) or wet (buon or true fresco).

• Mural painting, wall

Leonardo Da Vinci, Last Supper, 1495, Milan, Italy

Italian painters of the Renaissance

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512, Vatican City, Italy

Creation of Adam, detail of Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco

3-Dimensional Media

SCULPTURE

• A work of art with three-dimensions: height, width and depth.

• carved, modeled, constructed or cast.

Modeling: ADDITIVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzBs3PM2W_4&feature=email

SUBTRACTIVE

Michelangelo,“Atlas”Slave,1513-20Marble

Michelangelo,David,1501-04,Marble13 ft. 5 in.

CASTING

• The process of making sculpture by pouring molten material--often bronze--into a mold bearing the sculpture's impression

Lost Wax Method

Bronze casting, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilZfSZFLbY

Construction & Assemblage

LOW RELIEF or bas-relief

HIGH RELIEF

IN THE ROUND

Installation

Pepon Osorio, La Cama (The Bed) 1987Mixed Media Installation, size variable

Earthwork

PUBLIC SCULPTURE

Performance

James Luna, The Artifact Piece

CERAMICSCERAMICS

Objects formed out of clay and then hardened by firing in a very hot oven, or kiln

FiringFiring: The process : The process of baking a of baking a ceramic ceramic object in a object in a very hot oven, or very hot oven, or kiln kiln

GLASSGLASS

DALE CHIHULYDALE CHIHULY

Other Crafts

• Fibers• Metals-Jewelry• Wood• Collage

Technology Based Media

• Photography• Film• Video• Digital art• collage

Summary

• Artists work in a variety of materials, using a variety of methods known as processes to create artworks