FINALS-LESSON 1 Types of Visual Art PDF

Types of Visual Art What do you mean by visual art? VISUAL ART Visual arts are forms of art that you can see. Visual arts have changed over the centuries. During the Middle Ages artists created paintings, sculptures or prints and became famous. Today visual arts applies to many differe...

Types of Visual Art What do you mean by visual art? VISUAL ART Visual arts are forms of art that you can see. Visual arts have changed over the centuries. During the Middle Ages artists created paintings, sculptures or prints and became famous. Today visual arts applies to many different forms. Types of Visual Art DRAWING Creating a picture with a variety of tools, in most cases pencils, crayons, pens or markers. Artists draw on different types of surfaces, like paper or canvas. The first drawings were discovered in caves, that date back about 30,000 years. DRAWING Ancient Egyptians drew on papyrus, Greeks and Romans made drawings on other objects, like vases. In the Middle Ages drawings were sketches that were made on parchment. When paper became common in the Renaissance, drawing became an art perfected by Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and others. PAINTING Painting is often called the most important form of visual art. It is about putting colors on a canvas or a wall. Painters express their ideas through a mixture of colors and different brush strokes. PAINTING Painting is also one of the oldest forms of visual art. In old caves prehistoric people painted hunting scenes onto walls. Paintings became important in ancient Egypt, where tombs of pharaohs were covered with scenes of everyday Egyptian life. PAINTING During the Renaissance, painting a became very important art. Italy became the center of Renaissance painting. The most famous artists of the 17th century famous painters during the Dutch Golden Age were, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Impressionism began in France during the end of the 19th century; Picasso created Cubism at the beginning of the 20th century.  https://www.singulart.com/en/blog/2023/08/29/rembrandt-famous-paintings/ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp (1632) PRINT MAKING An art that is made by covering a plate with ink and pressing it on the surface of another object. Today prints are mostly produced on paper today but originally, they were pressed onto cloth or other objects. Plates are often made out of wood or metal. PRINT MAKING The first prints were probably made in ancient Mesopotamia. Later on they became popular in ancient Egypt and China. Printmaking spread to Europe towards the end of the Middle Ages.  https://www.singulart.com/en/blog/2023/08/29/rembrandt-famous-paintings/ Print Making PHOTOGRAPHY Photography is making pictures by letting light through the lenses of a camera onto a film. In analogue photography light was recorded onto a film, which had to be chemically developed. Images could then be printed onto special paper. PHOTOGRAPHY Today most photography is digital. Cameras have no film, the images are recorded onto silicon chips. FILM MAKING Filmmakers make moving images that they turn into films. It is a very expensive and complicated form of art, involving many tasks, for example scriptwriting, casting, and editing film sequences before they can be shown to an audience. FILM MAKING A full-length feature film often takes many weeks or months to produce. Film Making “BANYUHAY” COMPUTER ART Today, art is no longer limited to brushes, paint and pencils. In the last few decades artists have been working with computers to capture images and change them. Computer art consists of a wide variety of different forms, from capturing and changing sound to creating video games. SCULPTURE Sculptures are three-dimensional pieces of art that are created by shaping various kinds of material. Among the most popular are stone, steel, plastic, ceramics and wood. Sculpture is often referred to as plastic arts. SCULPTURE Sculpture goes back to ancient Greece. It has been important in various religions of the world over many centuries. In the Renaissance, Michelangelo was one of the masters of the art. SCULPTURE Michelangelo His most famous piece of work was David, a marble statue of a naked man.