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What is Painting?
•Painting is the part of creating meaningful effects on a flat surface by the use of pigments. Different mediums are
used in painting.
Tempera
-This is a mixture of ground and pigments and aluminous or colloidal vehicle,egg, gum or glue used by Egyptian,
Medieval and Renaissance painters.
Watercolor
•The pigments are mixed with water and applied to fine white paper.
•Material used for water color are parchments, ivory, silk, and cambric. Opaque water color is called “ gouache.”
Pastel
•It possesses on surfaces of light, given no glazed effect and most closely resembles dry pigmen.
•The pigment is bound to a form of crayon which is applied directly to the surface, usually paper.
Fresco
The colors are mixed with water and applied to fresh plaster which absorb the color.
Acrylic
These are synthetic paints using acrylic emulsion as binder.
They combined the transparency and quick drying qualities of watercolor and are flexible as oil.
Encaustic
This is done by painting with wax colors fixed with heat.
Stained Glass
This is made by combining many pieces of colored glass which are held together by bands of lead.
Mosaic
This is a picture or decoration made of small pieces of inlaid colored stones or glass called “tesserae” which is cut
into squares glued on a surface with plaster or cement.
Tapestry
This is a fabric consisting of a wrap upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often
pictorial and wall hangings and furniture's covering.
Bistre
This is a brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood , and often used in pen and wash drawings.
Crayons
are pigments bound by wax and compressed into painted sticks used for drawing especially among the children in
the elementary grades.
Charcoal
These are carbonaceous materials obtained by heating wood or other organic substance in the absence of air .
Woodcut
The design stands as a relief, the remaining surface of the block being cut away.
Drawing
Drawing is usually done on paper, using pencil, pen and ink, or charcoal. It is the most fundamental of all skills
necessary in the arts.
Silverpoint
The artist has technique in this medium of drawing with a silver stylus ion especially prepared paper to produce a
thin grayish line that was popular during the Renaissance period.
sMichaelangelo Buonarroti
6 March 1475-18 February 1564
• Full name : Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Familiar to his “Pieta” at the Vatican Pavilion.
• He become famoues by the “Sistine Chapel” frescoes.
• Full name :
Vincent Willem van Gogh
• At age 15, van Gogh's family was struggling financially, and he was forced to leave school and go to
work.
• When she rejected his marriage proposal, van Gogh suffered a breakdown. He threw away all his books
except for the Bible, and devoted his life to God. He became angry with people at work, telling
customers not to buy the "worthless art," and was eventually fired.
• Van Gogh's art helped him stay emotionally balanced. In 1885, he began work on what is considered to
be his first masterpiece, "Potato Eaters.
Edward Munch
12 December 1863- 23 January 1944,
• Was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes
built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced
• His best known composition,
• The Scream, is part of series The Frieze Of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of
life.love,fear,death and melancholy.
Jose T Joya
•he was a filipino abstract artist and a national artist of the philippines awardee.
•Joya was a printmaker,mixed media artist,and a former dean of the UP college of fine arts.he is the creator of
compositions that were described as “vigorous compositions” of heavy impastoes. Bold brushstrokes, controlled
dips,and diagonal swipes.”
•His works were strongly influenced by the tropical landscapes of the philippine islands.
Medium of Sculpture
1. Stone- this is a hard substance formed from mineral and earth material.
2. Granite- this is a granular igneous rock composed of feldopars and quartz, usually combined with other minerals
and quite difficult to chisel.
3. Marble- it is a limestone in a more or less crystalline state and capable of taking a high polish,occuring in many
varities.
4.Jade- it is a fine,colorful stone, usually green,and used widely in ancient china.
5.Ivory- comes from the main parts of the tusks of elephants, is the hard white substance used to make carvings
and billiard balls.
6Metal- include any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver or copper all of which are crystalline when
solid and many of which are characterized by capacity,ductility,conductivity and peculiar luster when freshly
fracture
7. Bronze- another by-product of metal consisting of copper and tin with color and is one of the most universally
popular metals for sculpture
8. Brass- an alloy of copper and zinc,is not popularly used by artists because of its limitations as a medium.
9. Copper- which has a peculiar brilliance,is used as a costing medium.
10. Gold and silver- are used as casting materials for small objects like medals,coins and pieces of jewelry.
11. Lead- a bluish gray material,is used for casting and forging with the help of welding torch iron,it can be worked
into a variety of unique and exciting form.
12. Plaster- is a composition of lime,sand and water. Plaster is worked on a armature of metal wires and rods in
addition to various marerials and fibers.
13. Clay- is a natural earthy material that has the nature of plasticity when wet,consisting essentially of hydrated
silicates of aluminum used for making bricks and ceramics.
14. Glass- is a medium that is hard,brittle, noncrystalline,more or less transparent by fusion, usually consisting of
mutually dissolved silica and silicates and contains soda and lime.
15. Wood- as a medium is perhaps easier to carve than any other mediums available because it can be intricately
carved and subjected into a variety of treatment not possible with stone.