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The Analysis of Visual Art

1. The analysis of visual art requires an understanding of its form, medium, subject matter, and style. 2. Form encompasses the elements and principles of art used to create visual images, including line, shape, texture, color, and space. 3. Medium refers to the materials used, such as paint, clay, metal, or found objects, which vary across art forms like painting, sculpture, prints, and installation art.

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The Analysis of Visual Art

1. The analysis of visual art requires an understanding of its form, medium, subject matter, and style. 2. Form encompasses the elements and principles of art used to create visual images, including line, shape, texture, color, and space. 3. Medium refers to the materials used, such as paint, clay, metal, or found objects, which vary across art forms like painting, sculpture, prints, and installation art.

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THE ANALYSIS

OF VISUAL ART
Awareness and understanding of art requires the viewer to have
knowledge of it’s a) form b) medium c) subject matter and style.
FORM
 Encompases the elements of art and the principles of organization that guide the artist
in art-making.
 The physical aesthetic qualities of the image.
 Artists uses the elements of art and principles of organization to create visual images
ELEMENTS OF ARTS
 Line
 Shape and forms
 Texture
 Color
 Space and Movement

The Principles of Organization show how sensory properties are organized to


achieve a sense of unity and harmony, variety, rhythm, proportion, balance and
perspective.
MEDIUM
 Materials used by the artist.
 Mediums vary in different art forms.

Painting uses oil, water color, acyrlic, poster paint, fresco or tempera.
Sculpture uses wood, plaster, marble, clay, and other tactile materials.
MEDIUM USED IN VISUAL
ARTS
 DRAWING

This two-dimensional art can be done using chalk, charcoal, pastel or pencil or ink
on paper. Chalk allows you to have a variety of tonal areas. Through the use of heavy
or light pressure, you create a blend of shades. Charcoal is burnt wood and therefore
create smudge easily on paper. Pastel comes light and pale color chalks. The dust it
creates on paper can remain in place through the use of fixative spray.

PAINTING IN OIL
Most popular medium in two-dimensional expression because it offers a wide
variety of colors. It is used on canvas and the pigments are mixed with oil. Because they
dry up slowly, retouching and reworking as possible. Texture can also be created
through a variety of brush strokes and several layers of paint.

WATERCOLOR PAINTING
Enables the artist to do transparent painting on paper. The artist has to be skillful
enough to work fast and control the colors because it dries up easily and once the colors
overlap, they create other color tones.
 ACRYLIC
This dissolves in water and uses acrylic polymer as a binding agent. Acrylic dry
fast, thin and resistant to cracking under temperature and humidity extremes.

 PRINTS
Fall under three categories;
a.) relief painting , such as woodcut, wood engraving, collograph, and linoleum cut.
b.) intaglio, which includes etching and aquatint;
c.) planographic process, which includes lithography and serigraphy (silkscreen) and
other forms of stenciling
 PHOTOGRAPHY
Mainly done with a camera. An image is captured through the lens of a camera and
is printed on photographic paper through a chemical process. The materials used in
photography has evolved from film to digital. Film comes in cartridge rolls that are
easily mounted inside the camera box. Digital photography emerged through
technological developments in computer systems. Images are captured instantly and can
be viewed in the camera LCD.
 CLAY
Medium used in sculpture.
It comes in three forms:
a.) earthenware, which can be sun-baked or kiln-baked
b.) stoneware, which goes through much higher firing that vitrifies the clay so that it
becomes closed-grained and non- porous.
c.) porcelain, which imparts a smooth finish, color, and decorative effects.

METAL AND BRONZE
Requires casting which involves making a mould of terracotta and then plaster of
paris, inserting a core and pouring in the molten metal or bronze. They can be shaped
by hammering or melted, cast, moulded, or pressed into predetermined shapes. In
contemporary sculptures, metals such as bronze, steel, iron or aluminium can be cut,
welded, cast, moulded, polished or patinated, producing durable and permanent results.

 WOOD
Commonly used in the Philippines. Examplesvof woods used are Narra,
Batikuling, Kamagong, Langka, Santol, Marang and Molave. Aside from extreme
durability, they have warmth of tone and a natural coloration that ranges from dark
brown to yellow and reddish hues, as well as fine-grained texture.
Other mediums in sculpture include Paper (as in origami), and found objects such
as discarded junk, driftwood shells, rubber tires and many other materials that have not
been traditionally used in art are assembled into artworks.
In architecture

 Stone and Brick “can withstand compression forces without crushing out of
shape. Concrete and layers of bricks also have compressive strength, which makes it
ideal for foundation walls. Steel has tensile strength”
 Woods is used for roof beams and flooring
 Glass, Metal, Aluminum sheets, Fiberglass and Plastics are commonly used in
modern architecture because of their aesthetic appeal and adaptability to the variety of
modern structural designs.
In photography

 Films are used for analog camera. The fil is developed and the negative images
are printed on photographic paper using special kinds of chemicals.
 Digital cameras do not make use of film. Instead, images are viewed directly
through its camera LCD or through the computer.
In installation art

 Iron bars, metal sheets, bottles, glasses, light bulbs and many other found or
recycled objects are put together using welding techniques or adhesive formulas.
 The environment ( trees, shells, water, wind, etc.) and different kinds of lighting ,
within the artwork and outside of it, may also be employed in installation art.
SUBJECT MATTER
It is what the art work is all about. It may be a human figure, a landscape, a
commemoration of an event, or an idea or feeling made visible through visual art.
STYLE
The treatment of the artwork’s subject matter is very much affected by artistic style.
Artist are recognized by their viewers and the art world through their style. “The
manner in which artist express themselves constitutes their style. Style gives us that
body of characteristics that identifies an artwork with an individual, a historic period, a
school of artist, or a nation, for example, realism, expressionism, abstract, and so on”

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