The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects
The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects
The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects
The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects
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Berana, Queencel A.
Humanities: Art Appreciation
Instructor: Ma'am Loida C. Suarez Saturday 2:30pm-5:5:30pm
MEDIUMS VISUAL OF ART
MOSAIC - A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assembling of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France
TAPESTRY -Tapestry is an ancient form of textile
art which has been practiced all over the world for thousands of years.
Venus of the Fallen Leaves mosaic art by David
Cruise
STAINED GLASS - The term stained glass can
refer to colored glass as a material or to works created from it. The Return from the Hunt
DRAWING AND PAINT MAKING
Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person
uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.
Painting is the practice of
applying paint, pigment, color or other mediu to a solid surface TEMPERA -a method of painting with pigments dispersed in an emulsion miscible with water, typically egg yolk.
The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of Ginevra d'Este by Antonio Pisanello
WATERCOLOR - Pigments are mixed with water
and applied to a fine, white paper.
PAINTING MEDIUMS
OIL - The pigment are mixed with oil.
Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal by Eugen
Chisnicean
ACRYLIC -Acrylic paints are water-soluble, but
become water-resistant when dry.
The Parisian Life by Juan Luna
FRESCO- Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. WAYS OF PRESENTING A SUBJECT
REALISM- Presentation of subjects as it is. It is
also a portrayal of objective reality.
Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
ENCAUSTIC- Encaustic painting, also known as
hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. ASTRACTION- It means to move away or to separate. The artist is more concerned about the presentation of a part of portion of a subject.
Bottle of Rum and Newspaper
DISTORTION- a distortion is any change made
by an artist to the size, shape or visual character of a form to express an idea, convey a feeling or enhance visual impact.