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This note can help you analyze Visual Arts including the form, medium used, categories of prints, photography, clays, metal, wood, the subject matter, and style used.
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MIDTERMSAnalysis of Visual Arts
Auditory Arts> with a time component.
Space Arts> demands space.
Awareness and understanding of art require the viewer to know of its:
a) Form (elements & principles of organization)
b) Medium
c) Subject matter
d) Style
Form
Form encompasses the elements of art and the principles of organization that guide the artists in
art-making.
Form refers to the physical aesthetic qualities of the image.
Elements (abstract) of art include the qualities that we experience through our senses: line, shape
and form, texture, color, space, and movement.
Principles of Organization show how sensory properties are organized to achieve a sense of unity
and harmony, variety, rhythm, proportion, balance, and perspective.
Guide in describing, interpreting, and analyzing the form:
o What are the dominant elements in the artwork?
o How are these used?
o What is the main subject matter treated about the background?
o How is the space used within the frame?
o How does the dominant element affect you?
o Is there a balance of forms or do some objects cover most of the frame?
Medium (concrete)
➢ It refers to the materials used by the artist.
➢ The medium may vary in the different art forms.
Painting > uses oil, watercolor, acrylic, poster paint, fresco, or tempera.
Sculpture> uses wood, plaster, marble, clay, and other tactile materials.
Drawing> a two-dimensional art done by using chalk, charcoal, pastel or pencil, and ink on paper.
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Chalk
➢ It allows you to have a variety of tonal areas.
➢ Through the use of heavy or light pressure, a blend of shades is created.
Charcoal
➢ Burnt wood and therefore creates smudge easily on paper.
➢ Comes in sharpened sticks or pencils either hard or soft.
*The harder- the lighter the shade
Pastel
➢ It comes from light and pale color chalks.
➢ The dust created on paper can remain in place through the use of the fixative spray.
Painting in oil
- It is the most popular medium in two-dimensional expression because it offers a wide variety of
colors.
3 things needed in painting:
• Pigment (Color)
• Vehicle (water, egg yolk, etc.)
• Surface (canvas, paper)
- Uses canvas and the pigment is mixed with oil (linseed oil).
- Texture can also be created through a variety of brush strokes and several layers of paint.
- Advantage: It dries up slowly and retouching & reworking are possible.
- Disadvantage: might crack because it dries up slowly.
Watercolor painting
- It enables the artist to do transparent painting on paper.
- The artist must be skillful enough to work fast and control the colors because it dries up easily.
- Does not allow for correction.
- Once the colors overlap, they create other color tones
o Wet on wet (create another color)
o Wet on dry (shade/tone?)
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