Chapter 3 Media

The Marathon Boy

330BCE; a cast bronze work made using the lost wax method. Only important artworks were used with this method as it was very expensive

monotype

A printmaking process in which only one impression results, hand rubbed or put through a press to transfer

Airbrush

A small spray gun attached to a compressed air source that atomizes liquid paint, allowing it to be sprayed onto a surface.

Medium

Actual Material Substance used to make a work of art

Albrecht Durer

Created "Knight, Death, and the Devil"(1513); Used metal engraving, had extreme detail

Monumental Heads

Freestanding sculpture from easter Island; meant to be seen from all perspectives; 15th century

glazes

Nearly transparent layers of paint that leave a hint of color on the underpainting.

Fresco Secco

Painting on dry plaster

vanitas

The impermanence of temporal life.

Printmaking

The process of making multiple artworks or impressions, usually on paper, using a printing plate, woodblock, stone, or stencil.

Oil Paint

This painting started as an opaque monochrome underpainting, then had layers of jewel-like glazes applied to the surface.

Lithography

a drawing created with an oily crayon, pencil, or liquid on either a limestone slab or a metal surface

ground

a fluid brushed onto a support to change it's surface quality

etching

a metal plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal.

alla prima

a technique of painting, a direct style without layers

Acrylics

can be poured, glazed, or painted alla prima. They can be thinned and applied with a fine brush to produce lines; water soluble artists can also pour acrylic paint, glaze acrylics, and draw fine lines with it.

Acrylic Painting

can produce large areas of flat color, similar to the effect of latex wall paint; pigment ground with a synthetic polymer liquid binder, dries quickly into a flexible film, can be applied to almost any support.

Medians used in 3D art

carving, modeling, assembling, technology, installation

Dry Media

chalk, charcoal, graphite, pastel, silverpoint

Aerosol Cans

compressed air and quick-drying paint often used by graffiti artists.

engraving

cutting precise lines into a woodblock or polished metal plate

Medians used in 2D art

drawing, printmaking, painting, fabrics/needlework/weaving

Types of Intaglio Printing

drypoint, engraving, etching, aquatint

Oil and Acrylic Paints

known for their wide variety of colors

Media

materials used in art

Relief

non-printing areas are cut away from a smooth surface, so that areas to be printed are left higher

Tempera

pigments mixed with egg yolk, the binder

Watercolors

pigments suspended in a gum arabic, a water soluble glue binder

aquatint

process related to etching used to create flat tones or softly shifting values; parts of metal are covered with acid resistant resin

drypoint

scratches a metal plate with a thin tool known as a graver

serigraphy

screen printing; stencil is placed over tightly woven fabric stretched over a frame and then inked over

Buon Fresco

true or wet fresco; pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster that is still wet

Materials

used by artists to best reflect the ideas that they are trying to convey; to create feelings of shock, intrigue, sadness, nolstagia, ect

Intaglio

usually cutting into metal; has fine lines a high level of detail rich, dark tones.

Gesso

very fine powdered white chalk suspended in glue or an acrylic medium (makes paper accept silverpoint better)

Gouache

watercolor with white chalk added to create an opaque paint

support

what underlies the artwork, equally important to the art itself; considered media