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Creating Art: Media and Processes

Creating Art: Media and Processes. Chapter 2 Lesson 4. Bell Ringer. What is the main purpose of a archeologist?. Drawing and Painting.

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Creating Art: Media and Processes

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  1. Creating Art: Media and Processes Chapter 2 Lesson 4

  2. Bell Ringer • What is the main purpose of a archeologist?

  3. Drawing and Painting • Drawing is a process of Portraying an object, scene or form of decorative or symbolic meaning through lines, shapes, values, and textures in one or more colors • All drawings have a common purpose, to give form to an idea and express the artists feelings about.

  4. Drawings Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, ilGuercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna) A man holding a string of beads, possibly a rosary pen and brown ink, watermark encircled bird 9 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (24 x 20 cm.) Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, ilGuercino (Cento 1591-1666 Bologna) Head of St. Joseph, in profile to the left red chalk

  5. Drawing Media • Drawings can be • Dry media- those media that are applied dry • Include pencil, charcoal, crayon and chalk or pastel • Wet Media- are those media in which the coloring agent is suspended in a liquid • Include ink and paints Fishing Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer- Van Gogh

  6. Painting • One of the oldest and most important of the visual arts • An artist creates a painting by arranging the art elements on a flat surface in ways that are sometimes visually appealing, sometimes shocking or thought provoking • Subject Matter in Art: Landscapes, Nature, people, Still Life, Historical Subjects

  7. Subject Matter • Landscapes are painting without figures were rare in Europe before the seventeenth century • Landscapes were mainly used as background • Except in Asia were landscape paintings were enjoyed for a long time • Nature- dream like landscapes • People – used most often; some are recognizable some are not • Still Lifes are an arrangement of inanimate objects such as food, plants, pots and pans • Historical Subjects shows scenes of the past

  8. Subject matter Alice Neel Portrait of Ellen Johnson People Jabob van Ruisdael Forest Scene - landscapes John Frederick Peto The Old Violin- Still Lifes The River Bridge - nature

  9. Drawing in sketchbooks • Sketchbooks are used mainly • As finished works of art and as preliminary studies of develop ideas Thomas Gainsborough “Repose”

  10. Media and Tools • All paints are composed of three basic ingredients: • Pigment is finely ground powder that gives a paint its color • Binder is a liquid that holds together the grains of pigment in a form that can be spread over a surface, where it is allowed to dry • Solvent is the material used to thin the binder • Brushes come in a variety of shapes and sizes • Pointed or flat, short or stiff

  11. Ticket out the Door • Quiz: • 1. Name 3 dry media used in drawings • 2. List 3 subjects artists depict in works • 3. What are the 3 basic ingredients in paint • 4. What is a still life

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