ART AND ARTISAN,

PRODUCTION
PROCESS, MEDIUM,
TECHNIQUE,
CURATION, UNITAS
 ART
Art, also called (to distinguish it from other art
forms) visual art, a visual object or experience
consciously created through an expression of skill
or imagination. The termart encompasses diverse
 media suchas painting, sculpture, printmaking, 
drawing, decorative arts, photography, and
installation.
 ARTISAN
• Artisan- someone who does skilled work with their
hands A worker in a skilled trade, especially one
that involves making things by hand. ‘street
markets where local artisans display handwoven
textiles, painted ceramics, and leather goods.
 ART MEDIUM
• "art medium" refers to the art materials or artist supplies
used to create a work of art. Basically, it's whatever you
use to make a mark upon a surface.
• An art medium is any material used in art projects like
sculpting, painting and sketching. Art medium options are
limited only by the artist's imagination and can range from
common oil paints to less mainstream choices, such as
playing cards, fabric or even pieces of garbage. The plural
of medium is media. Some of the most common media are
oil paints (paints that use oil to hold pigments together),
tempera (pigments held together with egg yolk), marble
(soft, white stone), and bronze (a metal used to cast
sculptures).
 CURATION
• Curation is a field of endeavor involved with assembling,
managing and presenting some type of collection. Curators
of art galleries and museums, for example, research,
select and acquire pieces for their institutions' collections
and oversee interpretation, displays and exhibits.
• “curator" identifies a person who selects and often
interprets works of art. In addition to selecting works, the
curator is often responsible for writing labels, catalog
essays, and other content supporting exhibitions.
 PRODUCTION PROCESS
• Process art is an artistic movement as well as a creative
sentiment where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art, is
not the principal focus
• The 'process' in process art refers to the process of the formation of
art: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and
moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings.
 GUERNICA
PAINTING BY PABLO PICASSO

Guernica is a large oil painting on

canvas by Spanish artist Pablo
Picasso completed in June 1937.
Now in the Museo Reina Sofía in
Madrid, the gray, black, and white
painting was done at Picasso's
home in Paris.
Artist: Pablo Picasso
THE NIGHT WATCH

• Artist: Rembrandt
• Dimensions: 3.63 m x
4.37 m
• Location: Rijksmuseum
• Created: 1642
• Genres: Portrait, History
painting
• Periods: Baroque, 
Dutch Golden Age
 LES DEMOISELLES
D'AVIGNON

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Dimensions: 243.9 cm × 233.7
cm (96 in × 92 in)
Period: Cubism
Location: 
The Museum of Modern Art
Created: 1907–1907
Medium: Oil paint
HEAD OF A FAUN

Artist: Michelangelo
Created: 1489
 PIETÀ

Artist: Michelangelo
Dimensions: 1.74 m x 1.95 m
Location: St. Peter's Basilica
Medium: Marble
Created: 1498–1499
Periods: Renaissance, 
Italian Renaissance
ANGELO BAROVIER, GLASS BLOWING,
ITALY (15TH CENTURY)
Wet-folding

By: Akira Yoshizawa

 MONA LISA

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Dimensions: 77 cm x 53 cm
Location: Louvre Museum (since
1797)
Created: 1503
Period: Renaissance
Genre: Portrait
THE STARRY NIGHT
Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Dimensions: 74 cm x 92 cm
Location:
The Museum of Modern Art
Created: June 1889
Genre: Landscape painting
Periods: Post-Impressionism,
Modern art
THE LAST SUPPER

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Dimensions: 4.6 m x 8.8 m
Location: Santa Maria delle
Grazie
Medium: Tempera, Gesso
Created: 1495–1498
THE BIRTH OF VENUS

Artist: Sandro Botticelli

Dimensions: 1.72 m x 2.78 m
Location: Uffizi Gallery
Created: 1485–1486
Medium: Tempera
Periods: Renaissance,
Italian Renaissance,
Florentine painting,
Early renaissance