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How Art Is The Cornerstone Of The Artmaking Process

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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

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