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Mediums Visual of Art: MOSAIC - A Mosaic Is A Piece of Art or Image

The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects

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Mediums Visual of Art: MOSAIC - A Mosaic Is A Piece of Art or Image

The document discusses different mediums and visual arts. It describes mosaics as pieces of colored glass or materials assembled to form images. Tapestries are textile arts created all over the world for thousands of years. Stained glass can refer to colored glass or works created from it, such as windows seen in churches. Drawing and painting involve using instruments or pigments on surfaces. Specific painting mediums mentioned include tempera using egg yolk, watercolors on paper, oils mixed with pigments, and acrylics that are water-soluble but water-resistant when dry. Frescoes are murals painted on wet lime plaster. Realism portrays subjects as they are, while abstraction focuses on portions of subjects

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Berana, Queencel A.

Humanities: Art Appreciation


Instructor: Ma'am Loida C. Suarez
Saturday 2:30pm-5:5:30pm

MEDIUMS VISUAL OF ART


MOSAIC - A mosaic is a piece of art or image
made from the assembling of small pieces of
colored glass, stone, or other materials. 
Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France

TAPESTRY -Tapestry is an ancient form of textile


art which has been practiced all over the world for
thousands of years.

Venus of the Fallen Leaves mosaic art by David


Cruise

STAINED GLASS - The term stained glass can


refer to colored glass as a material or to works
created from it. The Return from the Hunt

DRAWING AND PAINT MAKING

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person


uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or
another two-dimensional medium.

Painting is the practice of


applying paint, pigment, color or other mediu to a
solid surface 
TEMPERA -a method of painting with pigments
dispersed in an emulsion miscible with water,
typically egg yolk.

The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci

Portrait of Ginevra d'Este by Antonio Pisanello

WATERCOLOR - Pigments are mixed with water


and applied to a fine, white paper.

PAINTING MEDIUMS

OIL - The pigment are mixed with oil.

Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal by Eugen


Chisnicean

ACRYLIC -Acrylic paints are water-soluble, but


become water-resistant when dry.

The Parisian Life by Juan Luna


FRESCO- Fresco is a technique of mural painting
executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. WAYS OF PRESENTING A
SUBJECT

REALISM- Presentation of subjects as it is. It is


also a portrayal of objective reality.

Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

ENCAUSTIC- Encaustic painting, also known as


hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to
which colored pigments are added.
ASTRACTION- It means to move away or to
separate. The artist is more concerned about the
presentation of a part of portion of a subject.

Bottle of Rum and Newspaper

DISTORTION-  a distortion is any change made


by an artist to the size, shape or visual character of a
form to express an idea, convey a feeling or
enhance visual impact.

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