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ART APP NOTES (MIDTERM)

Date: @30/09/2021

Topic: Mediums of Art

Recall Notes
The Artist, Writer or are people that are capable of creating art, from their point
Creator of view art is a means of communication and expression.

Individual artists, writer and creators have different art

styles clearly seen and expressed in their artwork. Every art
work vary individually, much like artists' mediums of
What are
expression does.
audience/readers?
Everyone is considered to be an audience as much as they
are artists.
Mediums of ART
What are mediums
Visual Arts - can be considered as a space art, can be
in art?
categorized into 2D and 3D art

Painting - 2D

Sculpture - 2D

Architecture - 3D

Photography - 2D

Auditory Arts - Time arts, can be heard or is expressed in

time

Music

Literature

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 Combined Arts (Performing Arts) - can be both seen and
heard, exists in both space and time

Theatre

The Artist and his Dance Film

Medium

refers to the material in which the artist chose to objectify or

express his feeling and/or emotion

When the artist chooses their medium they try to choose

the medium bet suitable to express the feeling they want to
convey

There are no fixed rules in the choice of medium and

material used in making the art. Sometimes, however the
patrons can leave the artist with no choice.

The artist's practical choices will be considered and

influenced by when choosing materials can be restricted
due to availability, the use of the art, the idea of the artist
and nature & special characteristics of the medium.

The medium's nature allows it to be worked into a work of

art. It also determines what subjects can be expressed
through it, i.e. subjects that are frozen in time, not involving
actual movements in the medium of space art.

A wise artist accepts and exploits the shortcoming of

mediums.
The Artist and his
The artist has a feeling that their chosen medium is a better
Technique
suit for their ideas than any other medium. Each medium
has it own range.

An artist's knowledge of the medium combined with his own

skill makes an artist's technique.

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 Every artist have different techniques even with the same
medium.

The techniques of an artist does not matter much in art

however the way an artist uses it is what is important.

The method of presentation of the art is assessed to by the

skill of the artist.

The elements of art is akin to atoms which are the building

Elements and blocks of everything. In a sense, the elements of art are
Principles of Art what makes an artwork.
Elements of Visual Elements of art are produced after the techniques are
Art carried out on to the medium by the artist. The combination
of elements makes good art.

Line

strokes that show motion and connects two points. It

creates space as it goes, has length, width and
direction. It can be 2D or 3D.

Straight, Vertical, Diagonal, Horizontal, Zigzag and

Curved lines

Hatching - series of parallel lines to indicate form.

Cross-hatching - indicate of more than one set of lines

over laid at an angle to indicate tone.

Shape

an enclosed 2D area or figure, an area encloses when

two lines meet. It can be geometric or organic.

Geometric - regular shapes such as squares, circles,

triangles, etc.

Organic - shapes that are irregular and occurring in

nature i.e. the shape of leaves and/or clouds.

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 Abstract shapes are formed after the artist has drawn
out the essence of the original object and made it the
subject of their work.

Abstract shape can be considered as organic shapes

due to the fact of their irregular shape/s.

Form

shows the object in 3D space. There is a mass and it

occupies space. It is an enclosed volume.

For some painter, it renders 3D art in 2D space. It is

usually used to form an illusion of a 3D space in a
painting.

Space

It is an element of art wherein it has a + and - areas. It

has a sense of depth. It is the area an object occupies
or the are between objects.

The negative (-) space is the distance between two

objects. It is the empty space in between, can dark or
black.

The positive (+) space is the , can be white or light.

An illusion of space can be done with the use of

shading

Shading allows you to create a 3D illusion in 2D space.

Color

It is derived from light, it is a reflected light.

is a series of wavelengths which strikes our retina.

every object has a color quality called pigmentation this

allows us to see different objects' color. It enables it to
absorb different colors and reflect the color that we see.

Black, white and gray are not on the color spectrum

instead they differ in the amount of light they reflect.

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 They are called neutrals.

Black reflects no light, White reflect all light and Gray

Uses of color partially reflects light.

Hue - the color itself

Value - it is the lightness or darkness of the color. It

changes when white or black is added to the color.
Amount of light, tint. Amount of darkness, shade.

Intensity - the aspect of brightness and purity of the

color. High-intensity means the color is bolder and
Texture brighter. Low-intensity means that the color is faint and
duller.

color gives the art spatial quality.

It may create a mood, symbolize ideas and express

emotion. It has the ability to arouse sensations of pleasure
Elements of
due to its tonality.
Auditory Arts
defines the way an art feels and look as if it would be if it is
touched.

the roughness and softness of surface.

Creating texture in a 2D surface, description and

experimenting.

Description - describing what you see and what would its

texture will be

Experimenting - is when you are already touching the

surface of the artwork

Rhythm

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 it is the element of time, or the pulse of the music or the
beat

Duration is how long the sound lasts

Tempo is the speed of the beat. Largo - labored, slow.

Adagio - slow. Andante - steady. Moderato - Moderate.
Allegro - fast, happy. Presto -

Meter - beats are organized into a recurring pattern. It

can be seen

Dynamics
The relative loudness and quietness of the music.

Melody

Is the linear/horizontal representation of pitch, pitch is the

highness and lowness of a musical sound
Many famous musical compositions have a memorable
melody

Conjunct, smooth. Disjunct, jumpy and difficult

Harmony

is a vertical representation of a sound, it is the combination

of pitches into chords. It is usually arranged into a
sentence-like patterns called chord progressions.
Principles of Art
It is the harshness of the music, Dissonance, harsh.
Consonance, smooth.

Timbre

It is the color of music or the tone color. It has the same

effect when painters use different colors to give a certain
effect.

Texture

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 refers to the number of individual musical lines or melodies
and their relationship to one another.

Monophonic Texture - music with only one note without any

accompaniment.
Homophonic Texture - Two or more notes sounding at the
same time, with a prominent melody and a harmonic
accompaniment underneath.

Balance
It is the sense of stability and equilibrium in art. Spreading
things out evenly.
Symmetrical, formal balance. Asymmetrical, informal
balance. Radial, from the center.
This is to ensure an aspect of the art does not overshadow
the rest of the aspects.

Emphasis and Contrast

Unity and Variety

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