Types of Art: New Media

New Media is an art form which came about in the 1960s, as artists started to experiment with developing technology in their art-making. New Media work is often created by using digital and electronic technologies to make sound pieces, to capture moving images (e.g. animation/film) and to create interactive work and computer-based art. Traditional art practices such as print-making can also integrate digital technologies. For example, an image can be manipulated in Photoshop before going to print through a press.

Types of Art: Installation

In the 1970s, the term "Installation" was described artwork that any form or size that inhabits a space inside or outside a gallery, which is often site-specific. Installations are typically three-dimensional and can be made up by a variety of materials and mediums.

It's common for Installation to be commissioned for sites.

Type of Arts: Sculpture

As with painting, the earliest example of sculpture dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (40,000 to 10,000 years ago). During this period, stone and ivory were used to create small figurines. It wasn't until the Greeks used bronze casting for life size figures were represented as Sculpture.

Some material, like bronze, glass, ivory, steel, marble and wood were sculpture material for three-dimensional artworks. There are two-dimensional sculpture where the object is not detached  from its background. This is called Relief Carving.

Types of Art: Mixed-Media

Mix-media is refer to artwork that uses the combination of materials in their construction, such as a work on a canvas that combines paint and ink as well as collage.

Mix-media can be dated back to Cubist Collage and the construction of Pablo Picasso and Georges Barque.

Artist working in mix-media are afforded a great deal of creative freedom.

Types of Art: Performance Art

Peformance Art is where the artwork takes the form of actions performed by the artist/s or approved performers briefed by the artist.

In Europe, the German artist Joseph Beuys was a hugely influential pioneer of Performance art, making a wide impact with his 'actions' from 1963 onwards. At around the same time in the UK, it was the artist duo Gilbert & George taking the scene by storm.

Sorry, no pics were here that could depict the Preformance Art.

Types of Art: Design

Part of applied arts, design comes in many forms, from graphic, fashion, interior, functional to the industrial. Design, in the context of displays in galleries, can be found in objects such as furniture and lighting, but also in the photographic and limited edition prints where graphic design has been used.

Types of Art:Crafts

The art of craft-making can be defined as an occupation or trade which involves manual dexterity and skilled artistry. A significant advent for the crafts was the 'Arts and Crafts Movement' which flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. The focus was on good design and craftsmanship at a time when there was increased mechanisation and mass production.

Types of Arts: Photography

A photograph is an image created by the exposure of light on a light-sensitive material at some stage during its making.  It can be either a positive or negative image and made using one of many processes.

As with prints, photographic prints are often produced in a limited edition and each photographic print is signed and numbered.

Types of Art: Drawings

As with paintings, drawings are one of the oldest art forms around and can be traced back to prehistoric times. Before the advent of paper in the 14th century, drawings were made on parchment and silver was also used to make under-drawings.

Drawing was and still is a popular method for artists to create preparatory studies. Examples of preparatory work are often a good way to see the artist's initial observations and ideas before they commit to the final markings in their work.

Types of Art: Print

A print is a two-dimensional art form created by an impression by a method involving a transfer from one surface to another.

All types of print come in multiples (except monotypes) to form an edition. Since the late 19th century, artist tend to identify each print with a number of signature. It common practice for the marker to produce a limited edition of the image, which means there a fixed quantity. The tools used to create the print are often destroyed once the edition is completed.

Types of Art: Painting

Paintings were first discovered in South West France in the Lascaux caves from the Upper Paleolithic Age, around 40,000 to 100,000 years ago, which shows that painting is one of the oldest types of art form that exist.

Technically, a painting is two-dimensional art from which is made up of layers of pigment applied onto a surface. The surface on which the pigment is applied varies from stone (used in Paleolithic Age) to paper, wood, cloth and canvas.

As the surface of painting differs, so do the materials used to create the pigments. During the Paleolithic Age colored earth was used, followed by plants extract and more recently synthetic clothing . There are many types of paintings, but amongst the well-known are oil, acrylic, pastel, spray painting and water color.

Noise Art

Noise Art, or Sound Art, is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilized as a medium. Like many contemporary art, sound art is interdisciplinary, and can take on hybrid forms.


Due to some inconveniences, I could not find any artwork for the Noise art, and I'm still trying to find some, so bear with me.

Thank you.

Principle of Design: Pattern

Patter is a showing of consistency with colors and lines. Pattern is an underlying structure that organizes surfaces and structures in a constant, regular manner.


Example:

Principle of Design: Movement and Rhythm

Movement- the path of the viewer's eye follows throughout an artwork. Movement is caused by using elements under the rules of principle in pictures to give the feeling of motion and to guide the viewer's eye throughout the artwork.

Example:

Rhythm- when one or more elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement. Rhythm creates a mood like dancing or music.

Example:

 

Black Rock Center of Arts

BlackRock Center of Arts

Attention all IB students! The Center of Arts wants your art! By the end of March the BlackRock Center will he hosting an Art Show that will expose art to the people who will like them.

Ms.Hess got us time to got BlackRock to let us show them what the IB Students can do. So if it's Photography, Drawings, Painting or etc, BlackRock will be hosting it with the other arts in the Art Show.

Remember! This ends at the end of March!

Link to the Center of Arts is on the top of the screen and Locations is 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown, MD 20874.

Thank you and have a nice time!

Studio Arts Black Rock

Art Show at Blackrock Studio

Black Rock Studios is a fusion of a luxury Villa and world class recording studio, located on the Greek Island of Santonini.

Principle of Design: Harmony and Balance

Harmony brings together the composition of with similar units. Here's an example of Harmony from Van Gouh:

Balance is the way which the elements such as lines, shape, and textures, of pieces are arranged. Balance is one of the most useful terms to know in art. Example:

Principles of Art: Variety

Variety is one of the principles of arts. It's the quality or state in different forms or type of arts.

Variety is often use through the use of diversity and change by artists who want to increase their visual interest in work. Hues, Values, Texture, and shapes reflect the artist desire for variety.

The opposite of variety is Unity, but when there is too little variety, the result is monotony, or repetition.

Example:

Art Word of the Day: Surrealism

Surrealism Movement

Surrealism was a movement founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artist who sought to channel the unconscious to unlock the power of great imagination.


Surrealist believed the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination.


Influenced by Karl Marx, they hoped that the mind had the power to reveal contradictions in everyday life.

2nd Semester!

The 2nd Semester is here! Get to work and study hard!

Everyone also should know to never forget to draw daily, or think of some art that you think inspired you to do art.

But for now, Study until all the test are over.

Have a Happy 4-day weekend off!