#dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas laid on panel

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[cewritten23]

All about painting

- Painting is away for artists to express their ideas, emotions, opinions, beliefs and many other expressions. They do this through visual language by creating certain aesthetic qualities in a two- dimensional way.

-Paintings are made up of shapes, lines, colours, tones, textures, and other marks. This creates volume, space, movement and light within work. All these aspects are combined in order to convey whatever the artist wants to express to the viewer.

-mediums: tempura, fresco, oil, acrylic, watercolour, as well as other water based paints such as, ink, gouache, encaustic and casein.

-forms of painting: mural, canvas on easel, panel, miniature, scroll, screen, fan and other more modern forms.

cultural traditions and painting: tribes, religions, guilds, royal courts, and states had a high influence and controlled the form, imagery and subject matter of paintings. They also decided whether a painting was for ritualistic, devotional, decorative, entertaining or educational purposes.

- Due to fine art, many artists began combining other mediums and ways of working with painting. For example artists combined painting with sculpture and collage.

painting techniques:

-acrylic painting=uses synthetic resin to bind pigments and can be diluted.

-action painting= consists of randomly splashed, thrown or poured paint onto surface.

- aerial perspective= a technique the allows a distant object with in a painting become fainter and more blue.

- anamorphosis=allows an artwork to be distorted from the viewpoint of one angle and to not be distorted from another angle.

-camaieu= subjects or objects in paintings are convey and painted through shades or single tints and colours. These hues are unnatural to the objects

-casein painting=fast drying, water- soluble medium

-chiaroscuro= strong painterly contrast between light and dark that effect the entire composition.

-divisionism=this technique is used in Neo-Impressionist paintings and is defined by separation of colours, usually convey by individual dots.

-easel painting= an easel is an upright support usually made from wood that allows surfaces such as stretched canvas to rest upon.

-encaustic=also known as hot wax painting that allows coloured pigments to be added.

-foreshortening= a technique that allows an object or body be depicted in a way that creates an illusion of projection or extension in space.

-fresco painting= a technique mainly used for mural painting and is used on freshly laid lime plaster. Water is combined with the dry powder pigment to merge with the plaster.

-gouache=is a type of opaque watercolour that consists of natural pigment water, a binding agent and at times additional inert material.

-graffiti= images or text usually painted onto buildings using spray paint.

-grisaille=a painting that has been done using only shades of grey or another neutral greyish colour.

-impasto= paint applied thickly on a surface allowing palette knife and brush marks stand out.

-miniature painting=a small illustration that us created and used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript.

-mural= a graphic artwork that has been applied directly to a wall, and other permanent structures.

-oil=painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as a binding agent.

-panel=a panel of wood either displayed alone or with a number of others, used before canvas became a popular surface to paint on.

-panorama= these works are usually extremely large scale that depict an entire view of a specific subject i.e and entire town.

-perspective=linear or point projection are two types of graphical projection perspective.

-plain-air painting= an act of painting outdoors

-sand painting=the act of trickling small amounts of crushed, coloured sandstone, charcoal, pollen or other dry materials into paint and then applying to a smooth surface.

-scroll painting=paintings completed on scrolls. Scrolls are usually made from paper or cloth.

-sfumato= actively softening the transition between paint colours making it hard for the viewer to focus on certain details.

-sgraffito=Italian word meaning “scratched” the action consists of putting down a primary surface i.e paint and then scratching that surface.

-sotto in su=illusion ceiling paintings popular within the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art period

-tachism= a french style of abstract painting that was popular within the 1940s and 1950s.

-tempura painting=also known as egg tempura is a fast-drying painting medium that is made from pigments that are mixed with water-soluble binding mediums, usually egg.

-tenebrism= this technique came from Italian tenbroso that consisted of dramatic illumination creating a very high contrast of light and dark within a painting.

-tromp l’oeil=is an artistic term that describes a high level of a realistic optical illusion of three- dimensional space and objects on a two- dimensional surface.

How does this relate to my work?:

As I have chosen to utilise paint as my main medium within this project I decided to research painting and painting techniques. May sound simple and obvious, however, paint is not a medium that I usually gravitate towards. Therefore, I felt it was necessary to research the medium, during which I discovered techniques and ways of working that I was not aware off. I plan to use some of these techniques within my work. For example I will make use of the technique Sgraffito, sfumato, impasto, acrylic painting, action painting, easel painting and using canvas as a surface to paint.

[thunderstruck9]

Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962), RE 49, 1961. Natural sponges, pebbles, dry blue pigment and synthetic resin on canvas laid down on panel, 122.5 x 98 cm.

[stevesilver]

YVES KLEIN

IKB 191

1962

dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas laid on panel

26 x 19 in.