Everything involving art must also involve a certain medium. A medium, simply defined as what the artist uses to create art, is the cornerstone of the artmaking process. An artist carries out the creative process by incorporating the materials in a particular way to get the finished product. The materials needed to create a masterpiece can range from oil paints used to illustrate the Mona Lisa to marble that was sculpted into the Statue of David. An artist uses the medium they choose to use and then begins creating but it is not as simple as this. Mediums are not just what artists use to create the art, mediums allow the artist to create the art. The artist must be able to control the medium and handle its many complexities throughout the …show more content…
Therefore, mediums can be immensely delicate and torturously unforgiving. In Sculpture in the Expanded Field, Rosalind Krauss states that sculpture is a commemorative representation (p. 33) and needs to be highly detailed in certain works to fully capture the history involved in it. When it comes to meticulous detail in every aspect of the sculpture, at any point in the creative process, one strike too hard on the medium can break off too much and ruin the entire sculpture. This would be agonizing if it were to happen to an artist but that is where the role of the medium can be what makes the artwork a one of a kind masterpiece or it can make you yearn for what could have been. I plan to look at 3 different mediums: oil on canvas, graphic design, and clay. The meticulous details of each kind of medium in art carry their own simplicities and complexities which is what makes the process of artmaking that much more intriguing. Oil painting on canvas is very unique in the sense that there are so many things that can happen because of all of the variables. The outcomes of paintings differ whether it is the type of paint you use or if you apply it heavily or lightly or even how your brushstrokes glide across the canvas and in which direction. In Jason Cytacki’s lecture he talked about how the paint itself has many different
Alpine Landscape is an oil painting by German artist Julius Lange at 1866. It is considered that this painting might be based on sketches from 1856 or may date from a later trip to Switzerland. The painting basically shows a scene of mountains and a lake from a lakeside. Mountains and clouds in the sky are presented in the background. On the foot of the mountain is a lake surrounded by disorganized rocks and plants.
Fine Artists create original artwork using a variety of media combined with their own techniques.
Raphael was known to use oil paints with pigments on wood, panel, canvas or wood for his paintings. The materials used for The Alba Madonna painting were oil paint on panel which was then transferred to canvas. Raphael used more paint on his works than other artist of his time. According to some, this serves as an example of his extreme talent due to the fact that oil paint in that era was a difficult material to use and was unforgiving.
I had enjoying watching the gunpowder art, It was something new for me. I see that the artist put in a lot of work to create the new look for the picture. I agree with you that using different mediums would give the art work will give a different style.Depends o what medium it could bring out the art or destroy it. With printmaking I feel that they are great techniques to work with. If you had to choose a printmaking to make art which one would you
Artist are creative minded individuals who through their works display emotions, historical moments, and forms of communication using mediums. Mediums are the methods used by artist to formulate illustrative creations. For instance, the commonly seen form that people witness whether in an art museum or in society in general are paintings. However, other forms of artistic creations exist in mediums classified as; wood, metal and marble sculptures, drawings or sketches and print-making such as t-shirt designs.
Oil painting is a long standing technique that is still used frequently in order to create vibrantly detailed and unique works of art. Kayla White’s painting, Overflow, utilized this very tactic by painting oil on canvas. I saw that she undertook a great challenge by using recognizable objects, being the clothes sticking out of the open drawers, and distorting them into melting objects that pool out of the wooden drawers and onto the floor, as if it had become liquefied. Her work exuberated a style reminiscent of famous works of art such as Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory. Both works use oil paint to skew recognizable objects in a space and render them in such a manner that they now represent something else entirely. Kayla’s
Making it easy to empathize with the artists thought and working process, creating a truly unique art experience.
Additionally, the materials used, tell further nuances and add depth to that story while the techniques also tell something more of self. The use of collage is deliberate, the materials used were deliberately something else before they were used, and this also says something about who I am, who I have become and what I exist within. Coats (2012) refers to two aspects of creating as a single entity in my mind, but which for me, are quite distinct: materials and technique or method. Coats (2012) sees the shaping of pieces for collage by artists like Eric Carle, what I would refer to as material use, as “their concern [being] mostly to create forms and colours, and textures that suggest the things they are trying to represent,” (Coats 2012 p.86).
Van Gogh painted at a time when oil paint was the main medium for paintings. (The Starry Night, 2012) He used oil paint in a way unlike famous Raphael paintings without seamless lines, but
Much of media art offers radically different experiences for the viewer than we may expect from more traditional forms of art. Media art can represent temporal and spatial paramenters that can be changed to create
Throughout the art community, there are many different forms and techniques classed as art. In the recent attack on the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), many of the public hastily judged the abstract art exhibition by stating ‘Abstract art is not really art’. Some of the reluctant public continue to say ‘Abstract painters are sloppy, reckless, renegades with no regard for rules for formalities.’ It is in my opinion that abstract art is can be classed as art because it incorporates the basic concepts and techniques of art. Abstract art, on dictionary.com, can be defined as a trend in painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. Abstract art seeks to separate from traditional representation of physical objects. Abstract art explores the
Art forms a very intricate part of the evolution of our society. It is a popular means of preserving our heritage in visually striking images and paintings. Artistic forms such as paintings also help to foster empathy in society from understanding the various emotions being expressed by any piece of art. They also help to pass information about particular cultures and their unique characteristics, and this causes an increased overall understanding of each other. Art is thus an important part of social life on this planet, and it is imperative that keen study is undertaken to establish the motivations for creating a piece of artwork, the intended message to be passed by the art and the various environmental influences on the type and quality of the art.
Social responsibility is a commitment every individual has to help better and keep our society as a whole. Art conveys social responsibility. What would our world be if humanity ignored the arts? Whether our society is aware of how dependent they are or if they’re oblivious they do hold the responsibility to support and practice Art. Art is our past, present, and future. Art is a means of communication, expression, and documentation of our historical events, thus as a society, it is humanities responsibility to preserve it.
Can the arts play a role in solving international conflicts? At first, my answer was a no. I mean international conflicts are complex and far reaching. How could the arts possibly play a role? However, throughout the day I thought about it more. I thought about how music, novels, films, paintings can affect us on a very personal level. There have been plenty of times when art has put me in either the best of moods or in the worst of moods. I then realized that the arts can play a role. Perhaps not directly, but it can influence culture and culture can influence society which can then affect the world. The main examples that came to my mind was The Beatles and Bob Marley’s One Love Peace concert. However, before getting into that I want to discuss the benefit concert held by Ariana Grande after the Manchester terrorist attack.
Mimesis: The basic theoretical principle in the creation of art (Encyclopedia Brittanica). Mimesis was a term and principle used by both Plato and Aristotle. According to Plato, art is an “imitation of and imitation” when compared to the forms. What he means by this is that an art creation is an imitation of something physical, which in itself is an imitation of a form. Aristotle believes artist creations are an “imitation of an action”. This is interpreted as art is the imitation of the action of life. Together they both agree that artistic creations are imitations of the truth or imitations of the forms. Rather than seeing artistic creations as imitations, I argue that art is an individuals perception of the forms, as well as it is the closest an individual can come to comprehending the forms. The supporting reasons for this argument include proving that the sensible are in fact artworks in their own way, that everyones perception of the forms are different, and that art is the closest way of portraying our versions of the forms.