Technique: Drawing

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Media

: the process used by an artist. In visual art it is the material used, what binds the color.

DRY MEDIA – Chalk (ochre hematite, soapstone, shale) – – –

Charcoal Graphite Pastel

(burnt wood) (carbon) (colored pigment & non-greasy binder) LIQUID MEDIA –

Pen & Ink

(shading results from diluting the ink) – Wash & brush (diluted ink, similar to watercolor)

Prudence

- Alberti Cherubino (chalk)

Three Mile Island-

Yvonne Jacquette (charcoal)

Nobspital

–Paul Noble (pencil)

The Singer in Green-

(pastels) Edgar Degas

Cottage among Trees- Rembrandt

(pen & brown ink)

Lotus-

Zhu Da (brush & wash)

Technique: Painting

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Pigment

-(powdered color) mixed in liquid that holds the particles of pigment together

Oils

= pigment + oil

Watercolor Tempera Acrylics Fresco

= pigment + water as thinner = pigment + egg yolk = synthetic pigment + acrylic polymer = pigment in water + applied to wet lime plaster, chemically infusing the pigment into the plaster as it dries

Mixed media

= multiple techniques & materials

Starry Night-

Van Gogh (oils)

After the Hurricane-

Winslow Homer (watercolors)

Egyptian Wall Painting (tempera)

Forward

- Jacob Lawrence (tempera)

Ocean Studio-

Phillip Mullen (acrylics)

A Bigger Splash-

David Hockney (acrylics)

Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel-

Michelangelo (fresco)

The School of Athens

-Raphael (fresco)

Printing: makes repeated copies

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from one artwork

• • • Printmaking is more profitable for the artist and less costly for the collector

Relief prints Intaglio-

woodcut metal plate -line engraving (cut grooves into metal plate) -etching (expose surface to acid bath after carving into wax ground)

Lithography

- stone plate, a grease crayon is applied, to which the ink does not stick

Documentary photography

Relief Printing

Rhinoceros

- Albrecht Durer (woodcut)

Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa-

Hokusai (woodcut)

Intaglio Printing

Intaglio

The Judgment of Paris-

Marcantonio Raimondi (intaglio/engraving)

Paradise I and Paradise II-

Marc Chagall (lithographs)

Documentary Photography

• Using photography to document social problems • During the Great Depression, a large scale program began in the US • Dorothea Lange worked for the Farm Security Administration • In the 1950s & 60s the new technology of color photography emerged

Migrant Mother-

Dorothea Lange

Grand Tetons & Snake River-

Ansel Adams

Art Elements

• Line: long thin mark • Shape/Form: closed line • Color: hue • Value: lights (tints) and darks (shades) • Texture: how it looks like it feels • Space: how the elements are placed on the picture plane

The Red Room -

Henri Matisse (line)

Miclantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl-

Aztec (shape)

Sunrise: Impression

Claude Monet (color/hue)

Elsie in a Blue Chair

– Mary Cassatt (value/ tints)

Homage to the Square-

Josef Albers (value/shades)

The Slave Ship

Joseph William Turner (texture)

The K’ang- hsi Emperor’s Second Tour of the South-

Wang Hui (texture)

Design Principles

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Repetition

: rhythm- repeated shapes or lines / variation- where there is contrast

Balance

: symmetrical / asymmetrical

Focal point:

where your eyes linger longest

Perspective

: linear / atmospheric

Contrast:

different placed together

Unity:

all elements work together to create meaning

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon-

Picasso (repetition & variation)

Book of Kells-

illuminated manuscript (symmetrical balance)

Personage Throwing a Stone at a Bird-

Joan Miro (asymmetreical balance)

A Primer on Rugs-

Bobbi Tull (focal point)

The Last Supper

–Da Vinci (linear perspective)

Madonna of the Meadows-

Raphael (atmospheric perspective)

The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo (contrast)

Autumn Rhythm No. 30-

Jackson Pollack (unity)

Additional Terms

• Chiaroscuro: using shading with darks and lights to model form • Dynamics: a sense of action or movement within a 2-dimentional artwork

Mona Lisa-

Leonardo Da Vinci (chiaroscuro)

Composition IV-

Vassily Kandinsky (dynamics)