Creating Art: Media and Processes

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Creating Art Media and Processes

• Chapter 3
• Art In Focus

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Drawing

• Drawing a process of portraying an object,
  scene, or form of decorative or symbolic meaning
  through lines, shapes, values, and textures in
  one or more colors.

M.C. Escher
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Dry or Wet Media

• Dry Media those media that are applied dry.
• Wet Media those media in which the coloring
  agent is suspended in a liquid.

Madame Palmyre With Her Dog, Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec
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Painting

• An artist creates a painting by arranging the art
  elements on a flat surface in ways that are
  sometimes visually appealing, sometimes shocking
  or thought provoking.

Janet Fish, Honey Jars, 1975
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Media and Tools in Painting

• Pigment finely ground powder that gives a paint
  its color.
• Binder a liquid that holds together the grains
  of pigment in a form that can be spread over a
  surface.
• Solvent the material used to thin the binder.

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Printmaking

• Relief Printing the image to be printed is
  raised from the background.
• Intaglio a process in which ink is forced to
  fill lines cut into a metal surface.

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Kathy Kollwitz, The Propeller Song
Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, 1960
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Printmaking

• Lithography printmaking method in which the
  image to be printed is drawn on limestone, zinc,
  or aluminum with a special greasy crayon.
• Screen Printing paint is forced through a
  screen onto paper or fabric.
• Serigraph a screen print that has been handmade
  by an artist.

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Photography

• A technique of capturing optical images on
  light-sensitive surfaces.

White Fence, 1916
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Video and Digital Media

• Any kind of material that can be used, processed,
  and transformed by a computer system.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vgiGxd5uRS6I

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Sculpture

• Bas Relief the sculptured forms project only
  slightly from the background.
• High Relief the sculptured forms extend boldly
  out into space.
• Sculpture in the Round any freestanding work
  surrounded on all sides by space.

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Sculpture
Lisa Reinertson, MLK
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Processes of Sculpture

• Modeling a process in which a soft pliable
  material is built up and shaped into a sculptural
  form.
• Additive process
• Carving cutting or chipping a form from a given
  mass of material to create a sculpture.
• Subtractive process

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Processes of Sculpture

• Casting a melted-down metal or liquid substance
  is poured into a mold to harden.

Lisa Reinertson, Mother and Child, 1997
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Processes of Sculpture

• Assembly the artist gathers and joins together
  a variety of different materials to construct a
  three-dimensional work of art.
• Materials could include wood, metal, plaster,
  or any found object.
• Kinetic Art a sculptural form that actually
  moves in space. (Calder)

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Architecture

• The art and science of designing and constructing
  structures that enclose space for a variety of
  human needs.
• Involves the organization and manipulation of
  three-dimensional forms in space.

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Architecture
The Chrysler Building, 1930
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Methods of Construction

• Post and Lintel one of the earliest methods.
  Placing a horizontal beam or lintel across the
  open space between two posts or other vertical
  supports.
• Arch and Vault.
• Barrel Vault several arches placed front to
  back to enclose space.

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Methods of Construction

• Groin Vault two barrel vaults placed at right
  angles.
• Dome a hemisphere placed on walls that enclose
  a circular or square space.

Stone Henge, post and lintel
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Modern Construction

• Wood Framing faster, lighter, factory cut.
• Iron and Steel Frame 19th Century, to construct
  the framework for larger buildings.
• Reinforced Concrete Construction embedding
  metal rods into concrete.
• Lightweight Structural Systems intricate
  network of metal rods.

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Modern Construction

Sidney Opera House