...Oils and Tempera: Two Mediums in Art Oil and Tempera paint are some of the oldest mediums known to artists. Though both are used to create beautiful pieces of art, they have many differences. It is an artist's preference as to what medium they want to use. It also depends on what the artwork will consist of. Is the artwork going to need a lot of detail, which Tempera paint can provide, or are they going to create something that will be more versatile and easier to work with, such as Oil paint can provide? Both have pros and cons. Here are some of the differences and likenesses between Tempera and Oil paint. Tempera can prove very hard to accomplish but after some practice it can be one of the easier mediums to use. It also can give better liveliness to paintings when compared to Oil paint. Tempera paint was used by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. It was developed during the Middle Ages, when it was used for small paintings made on wood panels. The egg Tempera paint comprises high-quality finely ground pigments, egg yolk, and water. It is good for an artist wanting to create a piece with thin lines and details. It is very heavy in consistency and requires a more solid support like wood or mural works on or in buildings. Although egg tempera paintings are extremely durable in terms of longevity, the surface can be scratched, may absorb moisture, and is difficult to clean. Tempera has a shelf life of 3 years. When examining different works in Tempera you can see how luminous...
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...Spain, Germany, England, Turkey, and Iraq. The art produced in these periods range from cave paintings and figures, to architectural structures. The art produced in prehistory indicates a shift from recognition of human and animal forms in the environment, to the conscious representation of these forms. It also reveals much about the societies that produced it: humans in the Paleolithic period were nomadic hunters, and their art appears to have served primarily ritual purposes related to fertility and the hunt, while art produced in the Neolithic period reflects the shift to food production and built settlements. Key Terms: • Paleolithic, Neolithic • twisted perspective, composite view • incise • henge, post-and-lintel, megalith, tumulus, corbel vaulting • Anatolia, Mesopotamia Lecture Notes: Introductory Notes: Paleolithic Period: Artworks in the Paleolithic period: • Human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany o Date: o Medium, materials, and size/scale: o Stylistic characteristics: o Function & significance: • Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf), from Willendorf, Austria o Date: o Medium, materials, and size/scale: o Stylistic characteristics: o Function & significance: • Head of a woman, Brassempouy o Date: o Medium, materials, and size/scale: o Stylistic characteristics: o Function &...
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...Life Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1905 Style: Fauvism In the Joy of Life painting Matisse used flat, bold, contrasting colors. This technique of heavily outlined forms is an expression of fauvism. Each figure is simplified with strong outlines, creating linear rhythm. These outlines give the figures shadowing and depth. In the Foreground of the painting the figures are much larger than those in the background; Matisse diminished size to give the impression that the dancers are much farther away. Matisse created a sense of real perspective, as well as giving his piece direction. His piece makes you center in on the middle and the figures dancing in a circle. Each figure is painted peacefully in their own unique ways, some relaxing, others dancing, and a couple embracing each other. Matisse depicted a celebration of life, sexuality, and womanhood. Matisse’s Joy of Life and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles are two complete different styles. Matisse’s landscape is a broad open field. His figures are un-crowded and relate to the forms of nature that surrounds them. Picasso, on the other hand, compressed the space and took Matisse’s sensual relaxed atmosphere and turned it into an assertively pornographic ambiance. Picasso chose deep tones and shattered forms, where Matisse used clear, bright pigments and graceful curves. Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Les Demoiselles Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1907 Style: Cubism The Les Demoiselles is a very disturbing painting. Picasso...
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...Activity No. 1 KATAS NG SAUDI* Name: _____________________________________________________ ______ Grade: ________________________ Course/Year/Section: ______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Professor: ________________________________________________________ Paste a photo of a jeepney in the box below. Individual/Group Activity Will you consider this Art? Explain your answer below. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Note: Consider reading Emmanuel Torres’s “The Jeepney as Folk Art”. The title of this activity is a sample of one of those catchy phrases posted at the back of jeepneys. This one says that the jeepney was a product (and metaphorically “juiced out”) from the sweat and brows of a relative working in the Middle East. Can you spot/remember other catchy phrases? Activity No. 2 PARA SA TABI Name: __...
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...Fresco painting is one of the oldest art techniques that was used in the world. The word fresco came from the Greek word: fresko meaning “fresh”. Moreover, this fresco painting is a technique wherein the artist uses fresh plaster as a medium to paint; This painting technique has three types , these are : Mezzo-fresco , fresco secco and Buon fresco. The main technique that I’ll be focusing on is the Buon Fresco. Buon Fresco or sometimes referred as true fresco is the most common method of fresco painting technique in which the artist uses a wet plaster and paints on it while it’s freshly laid on the wall. Buon Fresco consists of the following basic process: first, the artist prepares the illustration that he/she wanted to do which would be transferred through the course of painting. Next, the artist will prepare the plaster by mixing it and then he/she will place or put the wet plaster into the wall. Lastly, while the plaster is still fresh and wet, this is the time where the artist needs to begin his/her painting. The challenge and the disadvantage of this technique is that one must have the speed to complete the artwork before the plaster...
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...Formal Analysis on the Wrestlers The Wrestlers an oil painting done by Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere in 1875 depicts an all male entourage, that displays the act of wrestling as a sport with a small audience. This painting captures a pause in time and creates an abstraction of representational characters to participate in this act. The formal elements that will be analyzed, discussed, and explained in regards to the painting by Jean Alexandre are subject matter, style, medium/technique, line, space, light, and color. In this paper, the reader will learn how Jean Alexandre influenced an audience and created a mood in this work of art through his unique style and technique using oil paint as a medium. The subject matter in this work of art is clearly depicted at the center of this oil painting. It displays to men engaged in an act of...
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...The Eight Types of Art Carita Dauer Art Appreciation HUMA 205-1202B Unit 1 IP Abstract In this paper I will explain the difference between eight types of art. These forms of art include: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, conceptual art, installation art, and performance art. I will then give a specific example of each form of art type to better explain each of them. The Eight Types of Art When a person tries to look up the word “Art” in the dictionary, it can be very difficult to find a clear definition of the word. There are many definitions for art, but these include various areas of art such as pop art, or modern art and not just art by itself. So with that being said the best definitions I found are as follows. Art is a visual form of human expression that can be applied to many subjects which engenders, by intent or otherwise, aesthetic and/or intellectual appreciation (Clarke, 2012). Art can also be classified as all of the processes and products of human skill, imagination, and invention. When the term is referring to a contemporary piece of art, the definitions of art usually reflect art theory and include music, drama, painting, and sculpture types (Art, 2010). Performance Art is defined as a dramatic presentation given by visual artists, such as actors or dancers. They generally perform in front of audiences, but not in a formal theatrical setting (Frank, 2011). The example I found of this type of art would be the ballet...
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...“an arena in which to act.” He thought of it as a space for an artist to create an “event” instead of an image, which was the result of an “encounter” with the artist and his medium. These concepts were the basis of Rosenberg’s most famous and timeless notion, that which he called “Action Painting”, which would later be described as Abstract Impressionism. It was the avant-garde work of artists that abandoned the object oriented goals of painting and painted “just to paint”, and not to make anything else but a painting, in it's most basic essence. For Rosenberg, these works of art revolved around expression of the inner man, and were thus purely self creation. These ideas of the artists perspective being looked through to criticize art was much more than a stones throw away from the narrow and intolerant path of Greenberg’s criteria. Rosenberg was an existentialist. He believed that, when represented in a piece, the human condition lent the most value to a work of art. This preference lead him to favor the works of artists like Willem de Kooning, with pieces like“Woman and Bicycle”, for example. Greenberg placed heavy value on abstraction as the vital ingredient to a modern painting. For a work to be an authentic modern piece, each medium used would need to distinguish itself from other, related mediums. He viewed this...
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...Discussing the two artists Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, they were both known as the Renaissance men. I will be covering the time period of the Italian Renaissance. Following after with the bibliography of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, and comparing the two artist’s paintings. However asking the question how can two artists that live in the same time period, have the same culture, but have so different styles of painting. The Italian Renaissance started in the 13th and 14th Century, leading into the High Renaissance, Renaissance in the North, and the late Renaissance in Italy. In Italy the society after the Middle Ages was powerful city states, extensive trade, and banking had developed. Education was a priority; in Italy the first University for Greek Studies was established. Most Scholars referred to themselves as humanists, not only did they believe education should teach the early Christian hood, but also liberal arts, grammar, poetry, history, politics, and philosophy. Renaissance humanists believed strongly in knowledge, they felt that God created mankind to pursue knowledge and strive to their full potential. Thus, this leads into artists creating visual elements of art to teach education. The main patron of artwork was The Church, wealthy independents, and merchant-princes. The Church paid the finest artists to paint stories of Bible references, because most people in this time period were illiterate. Examples...
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...HUM112 August 21, 2011 Abstract This report describes a vivid depiction of the painting Little Sugar River at Noon. In addition the report touches on the painter and illustrator Fredrick Maxfield Parrish. It goes on to describe how oil paints are developed. Finally, it further defines how this medium of art allows the painting to have texture and dimension. The painting the Little Sugar River at Noon is a New England landscape (Parrish). It depicts a sandy beach along a river bend with a vivid blue sky and a couple of big white fluffy clouds. The little river is unmoving and clear like a sheet of glass. The river wines around the landscape jutting in and out of the valley. The beech is not made completely of sand there are some bushes and moss or grass mixed in with the sand. The sky and surrounding foliage are reflected of the surface of the river. Off in the distance there are more trees, hills, and mountains. The trees are varying heights, types, and shades of green. The trees add a calm feeling to the painting which allows you to imagine and indulge in a great summer day. The hills and mountains off in the very far distance have rounded peeks. They have been painted in hues of reds, browns, grays, and blues; these mixtures of colors add to the majestic serene picture landscape. This style of paining was an American Romantic Landscape (Sayre, 2011). The painting is offset by its rustic wooden frame. This gives the picture a rural country feel that...
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...How were watercolourists able, with such a delicate medium, to capture both the picturesque appeal of the British landscape and architecture as well as the fleeting effects of light and weather? “With reference to Watercolour Painting, we have to speak of a new art, originating with the English, and perfected in the age whence it began” Quoted as above, William Henry Payne describes the developments of new techniques that allowed Britain to move to the forefront of watercolour painting in the late 18th century. Watercolour is one of the oldest known media, and has remained popular over the centuries; yet Britain is credited with having ‘perfected’ the medium during this period. It was at this time that a number of treatise written on its usage, most famously, Ruskin’s ‘The Elements of Drawing’, which became a best seller during the Victorian period. Three artists in particular- Thomas Girtin, Paul Sandby and J.M.W. Turner- are recognized as having mastered the technique, reinvigorating the use of watercolour. These artists elevated watercolour by depicting subject matter often reserved for oil paint, often on a far larger scale than that which had previously been produced. Not only did these artist contribute greatly to the technical development of the medium, they also helped to pioneer the ‘picturesque’, an aesthetic ideal that was entered into English cultural debate by the writings of William Gilpin in 1782. The term’s meaning became a more specific reference to a way of...
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...Stalin’s height is amplified n the painting of him and the leader of the Red Army, Kliment Voroshilov (fig. 3). In this painting, we see Stalin and Voroshilov taking a walk in the Kremlin, with the Kremlin towers and a panorama of Moscow in the background. Again, we can see the ‘utopian gaze’ on Stalin’s face: the furrowed eyebrows and the narrowed eyes, staring into a point far outside the dimensions of the canvas. Another striking feature of this painting however, is the height of Stalin. He is depicted as the taller man due to his position of being closer to...
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...Madhubani Paintings Introduction The closest to the universal medium of communication is "Art". Art can manifest into numerous forms and if we listen carefully to each one of these forms, they have a story to tell from mythological events to future scenarios of the world. Art educates us by speaking a universal language and Madhubani art which originated from Bihar is one such revered Art-work recognized internationally. We have chosen Madhubani paintings for this exercise. Body Madhubani paintings are characterized by the vibrant and bold use of colors and traditional geometric patterns that supports the main theme. Some of the main attributes of all the Madhubani paintings are double line border, ornate floral patterns, abstract-like figures of deities and bulging eyes with a jolting nose of the faces of the figures. Madhubani paintings also use two dimensional imagery, and the colors used are derived from plants.Madhubani paintings mostly depict nature and hindu religion, and the themes generally revolve around hindu deities. Natural objects like the sun, the moon and flowers are widely painted, along with scenes from the royal court and social events like weddings. Generally no space is left empty; the gaps are filled by paintings of flowers, animals, birds, and even geometric designs. Types of Madubani paintings There are 3 styles of Madhubani painting 1.Brahmin Style 2. Tatoo Style 3.Kshatriya Style Colour Scheme •Black – By blending soot and...
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...and geometric form. Picasso had four children with three different women. In 1972, a number of his artworks were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris. When Pablo was 8 years old he created his first oil painting called “The Picador”. Artworks Guernica - 1937 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 349.3cm x 776.6cm (dimensions) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - 1907 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 243.9cm...
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...activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, workshop areas, educational facilities, technical equipment, etc. The creative arts are often divided into more specific categories, each related to its technique, or medium, such as decorative arts, plastic arts, performing arts, textile arts or literature. We do this by: • programming local, national and international music, theatre, cinema, dance and a whole host of workshops • supporting artists who live and work in our region • providing opportunities for all in our community to participate in making art . Studio3 Art Gallery in Mumbai, India deals in Indian Contemporary Art and Modern Art. It has a wide range of Indian Paintings by Indian artists . It carries original paintings in different mediums such as Oil Paintings, Watercolour Paintings , Acrylic Paintings and Charcoal Paintings . It has Paintings in different styles like...
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