MEDIA
Dec 23, 2015
MEDIA
Medium – physical or technical means of an art
work
Oil painting and watercolor are 2-
dimensional media
Two-dimensional media
Two-dimensional media
• painting
• printing
• photography
• drawing
• mosaic
FrescoTempera
OilWatercolorEncausticSynthetic
What is the binder for the pigment?
2-D: painting: FRESCO
2-D: painting: TEMPERA
2-D: painting: OIL
2-D: painting: WATERCOLOR
2-D: painting: ENCAUSTIC
2-D: painting: SYNTHETIC
2-D: PRINT MAKING: WOOD CUT
2-D: PRINT MAKING: Other types
• Engraving, etching
• Lithography
• Serigraph
• Monotype
Durer, AlbrechtKnight, Death and Devil1513Engraving24 x 19 cm
2-D: MOSAIC
2-D: MOSAIC
Mary Fielding McCleary, Allegory of the Senses
2-D: PHOTOGRAPHY
B&W, color
Various printing techniques
2-D: DRAWING (many types)
2-D: DRAWING
Rubens
Young Woman Looking Down (Study for the Head of St. Apollonia)
(1628)
Three-Three-dimensiondimensional mediaal media
Sculpture RELIEF – high & lowIN THE ROUND
• ADDITIVE
• SUBTRACTIVE
• TRANSFORMATIVE
• ASSEMBLAGE
Sculpture RELIEF – low
Sculpture RELIEF – high
Sculpture IN THE ROUND
Sculpture • ADDITIVE
• SUBTRACTIVE
• TRANSFORMATIVE
• ASSEMBLAGE
Sculpture • ADDITIVE
terra cotta
Sculpture • ADDITIVE
• SUBTRACTIVE
• TRANSFORMATIVE
• ASSEMBLAGE
Sculpture • ADDITIVE
• SUBTRACTIVE
• TRANSFORMATIVE
• ASSEMBLAGE
CASTING
Sculpture • ADDITIVE
• SUBTRACTIVE
• TRANSFORMATIVE
• ASSEMBLAGE
VIDEO/FILM
MIXED-MEDIA
MULTI-MEDIA
INTER-MEDIA