Appreciating The Visual Arts Reviewer
Appreciating The Visual Arts Reviewer
ARTS
- Video art
Visual arts
- Animation
- Fine arts
- Graffiti
- Decorative arts
- installation art
- Contemporary arts
Mediums of Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Two-dimensional Arts (Painting )
- Painting
Watercolor
- Sculpture
- pigment mixed with water
- drawing
- Some of the watercolor artists are Vincent
- Watercolor Van Gogh, Frank Weber, Emil Nolde, Jun
Martinez, Margarita Lim, Ang Kiukuk, and
- Graphics Ephraim Samson.
- Architecture Vincent Van Gogh, “Fishing Boats on the
Beach”
Decorative Arts
Fresco
- Tapestry
- One of the oldest types of painting
- Ceramics
whose outcome is like a marble wall
- Mosaic art painting
- Interior Tempera
- one of the most high-priced and high the Malong of Maranaw, “The Lady and the
valued arts Unicorn” from Australia
Acrylic Pencils
- synthetic paint mixed with acrylic - To create lines, the hard pencils are
emulsion binder used and for creating textures and
shades, the soft ones are used
- quick drying characteristics as the
watercolor and the flexibility of oil Pen and Ink
Thomas Hart Benton, “The Bicyclers” executed with the use of black and other
colored inks like India ink, Chinese ink,
Mosaic liners, markers, and regular ballpoint pen
are some of the favorite samples used by
creating images with an assemblage of comic strip illustrators and cartoonists
small pieces of colored glass, stone, or
other materials often glued on a surface Charcoal
with plaster or cement
- drawing material made of carbon in
A part of the mosaic “Alexander the Great” different forms like stick, compressed,
powder, and vine
Stained Glass
- used in representing broad masses of
conjoining small pieces of precut light and shadow by blending, smearing,
stained glass that is clasped by strips of or smudging.
lead
Crayons
colored sticks made from paraffin wax - recording light or other electromagnetic
mixed with pigments radiation, either electronically utilizing
an image sensor, or chemically using a
trendy among children light-sensitive material such as
photographic film
ideal surface for crayons is paper
Andreas Gursky, “Rhein II”priced at US$
Mediums of Visual Arts
4.3M
Two-dimensional Arts (Printmaking )
Tattoo
Katsushik Hokusai, “The Underwave of
- permanent insertion of ink below the
Kanagawa”
skin, using a sharp instrument
Printmaking
Apo Whang-Od doing the traditional hand
- done by creating an artist’s plate, which poking tattooing
can either be original artwork or from an
Graffiti
image which can later on transferred to a
white paper using black ink - writing or drawings that have been
scribbled scratched, or painted illicitly
- done for duplicating or making multiple
on a wall or other surface, often within
copies of an original drawing
public view
- “Dance of the Fire Birds”, “Interlude”, and
- also called "Street Art," "Spray can Art,"
“Sabong” by Manuel Rodriguez Sr., the
"Subway Art" or "Aerosol Art"
Father of Printmaking in the Philippines ,
“Sabel” by Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera Eduardo Cobra
Lithography Mediums of Visual Arts: 3-dimensional
Arts
- literally means “to write on stone”
Sculpture
- reproduction process that uses a
leveled stone or metal plate on which the - classifified as freestanding, relief, and
positive image areas are worked by environmental
means of a greasy substance so that the
ink will stick to the surface, while the Architecture
negative image areas are made ink-
repellent - Art and technique of designing and
building,
- Notable lithography artists are Pablo
Picasso, Marc Chagall, Claude Garache, - Both utilitarian and aesthetic
Wilfredo Lam, Ronald Ventura, Ambie - Materials usually used for architecture are
Abanos, and Arturo Luz stone, brick, wood, concrete, iron and steel
Pablo Picasso, “Guernica 2”
Photography or Pictorialism
- Methods applied are post and lintel, arch, - Theme relates to the meaning of a
vault, dome, truss framed structures and painting, rather than the subject.
wall
- Theme is deeper and broader and
UST Main Building – Renaissance Revival conveys something more universal.
by Fr. Roque Ruano
- Themes are usually implied rather than
The Athena building in Cagayan State explicitly stated.
University
- To examine the theme in visual arts is look
Ceramic Art at the ideas conveyed by the visual
experience as a whole.
- made from clay bodies and fired in a
kiln to obtain the finished form Mood