VISUAL ARTS

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Elements Types Techniques
Composition Mediums Famous Painters

Painting
– the art of creating meaningful effects on a surface by the use of
pigments
– It is an image or artwork created using pigments (color) on surface
(e.g. canvass, stone, paper, plaster, wood).
– It may also refer to the action of making artwork – paint (ing)
Elements of Painting

Line Color
Vertical Lines
Diagonal Lines
Shape Horizontal Lines

Size Texture
 Composition of Paints

Paints are composed of three

materials:
Pigment
Binder
Solvent
Composition of Paints

Pigment: natural or synthetic colored

materials finely ground into powder, clay,
gemstones, minerals, plants and insects.

www.webexhibitts.org/pigments/
Composition of Paints

Binder: holds the pigment together and

adheres the paint to a surface, egg yolks,
oil and wax.

www.webexhibitts.org/binder/
Composition of Paints

Solvent: can be added to thinner or thicken paint,

slow or speed up its drying time with oil or water.

www.webexhibitts.org/solvent/
 Painting types
Fresco Oil Pastel
Tempera
Watercolor
Acrylic
Painting Types

Fresco
• “fresco” means fresh
• the classic and most popular type
• executed using water-soluble paints
on wet or dry limestone
• impossibility to mobility
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Fresco VS Mural
So, what is MURAL PAINTING then?
a general term for wall painting
Any painting on a wall, ceiling, or other large
structure
Painting Types

Tempera
used prior to 1400’s - during Egyptian, Medieval

and Renaissance time

mixture of ground pigments and colloidal vehicle

(e.g.) egg, glue, etc

Its special characteristic is Emulsion
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Sandro by
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Painting Types

Oil

Pigments are mixed with oil

It had a glossy and varnish-like effect
Oil painting dries slowly
It is the best method for representation of
producing the exact color of tone
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Gachet by Pablo Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh
The Water Lilies Series by Claude Monet
Painting Types

Watercolor

Pigments are mixed with water

Requires a high degree of technical dexterity
Opaque watercolor is called “ Gouache”
Sharpened Watercolor Painting
Gouache
Painting Types

Acrylic
a synthetic paint-pigment
completely insoluble when dried
very durable and do not crack
although it turns intro yellow with
age
Painting Types

Pastel
in a form of a stick consisting of
pigment and a binder (oil-based)
usually made in paper, canvass or
pasteboard
Very flexible medium
 PAINTING MEDIA

Dry Media

Liquid Media

Synthetic Media
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA
PENCIL

METALPOINT PENS

CHARCOAL
CHALK

CRAYONS
PASTEL
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA

PENCILS
Graphite pencils or lead pencils have probably made
more drawings than any other medium.
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA

METALPOINT PENS

Metalpoint
A drawings
metal stylus are laborover
being dragged intensive and
a surface
require a lotaofmark
leaving patience
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA

CHARCOAL

dark, soft and harsh lines made by burned

It is used greatly for sketches and portraits.
sticks of wood
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA

CHALK CRAYONS
Binder
Chalk
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have the substance
nonfat binders that
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them the
have greasypigment
or oily,
BINDERtogether
fat and wax binders
Painting Media
DRY MEDIA

PASTELS
Pastel painting
Combination of pureispowdered
fragile and easily and
pigment
smudged, its apreservation
binder. requires
protective measures.
Painting Media
LIQUID MEDIA
PEN AND INK

BRUSH AND INK

ENCAUSTIC
WATERCOLOR
OIL
Painting Media
LIQUID MEDIA

PEN AND INK

major variable in ink drawings is the

thickness or thinness of lines
Painting Media
LIQUID MEDIA

BRUSH AND INK

major variable in ink drawings is the

thickness or thinness of lines
Painting Media
LIQUID MEDIA

ENCAUSTIC
also known as hot wax painting, involves
using heated beeswax to which colored
pigments are added.
Painting Media
LIQUID MEDIA

WATERCOLOR
paints are made of pigments suspended in
a water soluble vehicle
Painting Media
SYNTHETIC MEDIA

WATER – BASED ACRYLICS

THINNED- DOWN ACRYLICS

Painting Media
SYNTHETIC MEDIA

WATER-BASED ACRYLICS

Quick-drying and bright colors

Painting Media
SYNTHETIC MEDIA

THINNED DOWN ACRYLICS

synthetic paints that are shot through
airbrushes and spray paint containers
 Painting Styles
Realism
Surrealism Expressionism
Cubism Impressionism
Symbolism Pointillism
Futurism Minimalism
Fauvism Constructivism
Dadaism
 Painting Styles
– Ability which artist fulfill his work of art and manipulates ideas.

1. Realism - introduced by a French man named Gustave Courbet in

19th century. Adapted to describe things representing figures and
exactly how they look like in real life.
Example: sunset, sunrise, and nature

sunset sunrise
nature
2. Surrealism - invented from the word super naturalism. It is used
to emphasize the unconscious creative activity of the mind.
Example:

dream

deja’vu
3. Cubism - initiated by Cezanne, the father of cubism. It
shows the flatness of the picture and rejects traditional
perspectives.

Example: Demoiselles d’ Avignon in 1907 by Pablo Picasso

4. Expressionism - tries to express subjective feelings and emotions of
the artists. It is how the artist feels about the subject.

Example: The Scream by Edvard Munch in 1892

5. Impressionism - the artist depicts what stimulates the eye. What
we see is important in an impressionist. When they create an art
they are more concerned with the effects of lights that would
get the attention of the audience.

Example: Soleil Levant (Impression, sunrise) by Claude

Monet in 1872
6. Symbolism - the visible sign of something invisible such as
ideas or quality. Something that you can create in the mind such
as ideas that can be depicted through painting.

Example: La mort du fossoyeur ("The death of the

gravedigger") by Carlos Schwabe
7. Pointillism - a style of painting in which the artists use small
distinct dots of color forming a figure and it has an item of
“luminosity” and create the impression of a wide selection of
other colors and blending.

Example: La Parade de Cirqu by Seurat (1889)

8. Futurism - an art movement that originated in Italy in the early
20th century. Machine and motions is the main subject of this
technique which try to show movement and speed. Rejected the
traditional perspectives and attempted to glorify a new life.

Example: The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni (1910)

9. Minimalism - the form is reduced to outmost
simplicity geometrical shape which emphasizes space.

Example: The reconstruction of German Pavillion in

Barcelona, Spain
10. Fauvism - the painter try to paint picture by using bright
and extreme colors in order to assume positive characters.

Example: The portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)

by Henry Matisse in 1905
11. Dadaism - a post-World War I cultural movement in visual
art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic
design. It shows a movement that shocks and provokes the
viewers.

Example: Hitler in Hell by George Grosz

12.Constructivism - derived from the word
“construction.” Construction of abstract pictures such
as metal and wire.
Example: Model of the Monument to the Third
International by Tatlin Tower.