What Is Medium in Art?
What Is Medium in Art?
CONTENTS
01 W H AT I S ME D IU M I N A RT ?
C LAS S I F I CA T IO N O F A RT
02 A C CO RD ING T O ME DI UM
T H E AR T IS T : H I S M ED I U M
03 AN D T E C HN I Q U E
1 MEDIUM
IN
ART
MEDIUM
What is the meaning of medium in art?
MEDIUM CAN BE
According to Esaak (2018)
medium in art refers to a
As a type of art
substance that artist uses to
create an artwork. Each medium
has its own particular As an artistic material
characteristics and each requires
its own techniques for creating As a pigment additive
art.
1. AS A TYPE OF ART
Plural: Media
A gel medium will thicken paint so the artist can apply it in textural
techniques like impasto. Other mediums are available that will thin
paints and make them more workable.
2 ARTC
LASS
IFIED
CLASSIFICATION OF ART
According to Medium
VISUAL AUDITORY
COMBINED
OR OR
ARTS
SPACE ARTS TIME ARTS
1. VISUAL OR SPACE ARTS
Two- Three-
Dimensional Dimensional
Arts Arts
PAINTING SCULPTURE
emphasizes an artwork’s
DRAWING the vertical mass,
ARCHITECTURE
and horizontal volume, and
PRINTMAKING character of space are LANDSCAPING
an artwork emphasized
PHOTOGRAPHY by the artist CRAFTS
2. AUDITORY OR TIME ARTS
Drama
3 T H E
A R T
I S T
THE ARTIST & HIS TECHNIQUES
Technique- artist’s knowledge of his medium and his skill in making it
achieve what it he wants it to.
Artist’s techniques differ from each other even if they work with
the same medium.
Same medium yet different techniques at different time and purpose.
ARTIST vs CRAFTSMAN
Creativity enters into its works Merely follows the dictate of the designer
His works almost always response to Concerned exclusively with the manipulation
some leap of imagination of the material
Objectifies an original, imagined Produces a product that is expected to turn
design out
Exploits every possibility that the Not free to innovate
medium can offer
The process becomes an adventure A mere copyist
to him
Uses technique as a means to an end Uses technique as an end itself
THE ARTIST & HIS TECHNIQUES
Originality in Expression
distinguishes an art from a craft
Bryan Dunleavy