MEDIUM AND TECHNIQUE

• MEDIUM
– Is the mode of expression in which the concept, ideas or
message is conveyed.
– It may be concrete or tangible, such as paintings, sculptures,
monuments and structure.
• TECHNIQUE
– Shows the level of familiarity with the medium being
manipulated.
– It alludes to the necessary tools or implements or consideration
of time and the specificity of the site of creation
 SOME MEDIUM OF VISUAL ARTS
• Water Color • Acrylic
• Fresco • Stained glass
• Pastel • Tapestry
• Oil • Mosaic
• Tempera • Crayons
• Encaustic
• WATER COLOR
– A simple coloring medium which has less luminous
effect when applied but easy to use.
• FRESCO
– method of painting water-based pigments on
freshly applied plaster, usually on wall surfaces.
• PASTEL AND CHALK
– Dry pigments held together by a gum binder
and compressed into stick
• OIL
– Is pigment mixed with linseed oil and applied in
canvass
– Expensive, Flexible, Glossy, Dries slowly but lasts
long
• TEMPERA
– A mineral pigment mixed with egg yolk or egg
white and ore
• ENCAUSTIC
– is a wax based paint (composed of
beeswax, resin and pigment), which is
kept molten on a heated palette.
– It is applied to an absorbent surface and
then reheated in order to fuse the
paint.

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• Acrylic
– are water-based, quick-drying, not reliant on
any toxic solvents and can be applied to a wide
range of surfaces.
• STAINED GLASS
– in the arts, the coloured glass used for
making decorative windows and other
objects through which light passes.
• TAPESTRY
– A fabric consisting of warp where
colored threads are woven to make
designs.
• MOSAIC
– A piece art or image made from the assembling
of small pieces of colored glass, stone, paper or
other materials.
• CRAYONS
– Are pigments bound by wax and compressed
into painted sticks.
• CHARCOAL
– is a form of dry art medium made of finely ground organic materials
that are held together by a gum or wax binder or produced without
the use of binders by eliminating the oxygen inside the material
during the production process.
 SOME OF
THE KINDS
OF
TECHNIQUE
SURFACE TECHNIQUES
• Lithography
– or “stone writing,” is a printmaking process
where images are inked and pressed on slabs of
stone.
• Impasto
– is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid
on an area of the surface in very thick layers.
• Serigraphy
– also known as silk screening, screen printing
or serigraph printing, is a stencil-based
printing process in which ink is forced through
a fine screen onto the paper beneath.
• SERIO-LITHOGRAPHY
– is a hybrid medium, incorporating characteristics
of both serigraphy and lithography.
– By combining these two graphic techniques,
serio-lithographs are appreciated for their vivid
colors, tonal depth, and texture.
 INTAGLIO TECHNIQUE
printing is done from ink that is below the surface of the plate.
• ETCHING
– is a laborious and painstakingly detail-oriented
medium. Old masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn and
Francisco Goya heavily utilized the medium to achieve
awe-inspiring images.
• Creating an etching begins with covering a metal
plate with an acid-resistant ground. The image
being printed is then scratched into the ground
with a fine tool, exposing the metal plate beneath.
The plate is then submerged into an acid bath,
burning away at the exposed metal – the longer the
plate is submerged, the deeper the impressed lines
became. Once removed from the bath, the plate is
inked, the surface is cleaned so that ink is only
residing in the incisions and moistened paper is
pressed into the paper, extracting the ink and
creating the mirror image of the composition.
• Engraving
– requires a patient hand and keen eye for detail.
– uses cutting tools to incise lines directly into the
surface of a metal plate – no acids are employed
or grounds used to treat the plate.
• RELIEF PRINTING
– a process consisting of cutting or etching
a printing surface in such a way that all
that remains of the original surface is the
design to be printed.
AWARDS AND CITATIONS
2 major awards given to artists in the Philippines are:
1. Orden ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining (Order of National
Artists)
2. Gawad sa Manilikha ng Bayan (National Living Treasures
Award)
• Fernando Amorsolo
– “Grand Old Man of Philippine Art”
– Sole awardee on the year 1972
– National artist for Visual Arts
• GAMABA Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan
– First 3 outstanding artists
1. Ginaw Bilog – a master of the Ambahan poetry
2. Masino Intaray – master of various traditional music
instruments of Palawan people.
3. Samaon Sulaiman – a master of the kutyapi and other
instruments
GINAW BILOG
MASINO INTARAY
SAMAON SULAIMAN