Media

Media influences Form.  An artistic medium is the substance or material the artistic work is made from.

Before the Arts and Crafts Movement and elsewhere, the term ‘artist’ was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts, such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking, and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media.

The media types of the Visual Arts can be categorized into two, three and four dimensions:
Two Dimensional Art:
 • Drawing (‘stick’ tool):  chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil, human finger, pastel, pen & ink, watercolor.
 • Painting (‘brush’ tool):  acrylic paint, black light paint, fresco, gesso, gouache, ink, latex paint, magna, oil paint, primer, stencil, tempera, porcelain enamel, watercolor.
 • Print Making:  aquatint, engraving, embossing (paper), etching, intaglio, letterpress, lithography, Moku Hanga, monotype, offset printing, photographic printing, planographic   printing, printing press, relief printing (linoleum, wood, metal), screen printing.
• Photography:  pigment process, holography, digital, computer art.

Three Dimensional Art:
• Architecture:  cement, stone, brick, glass, metal, wood, plastic.
• Carpentry:  wood, timber, adhesives.
• Natural World:  rock, soil, vegetation, water.
• Sculpting: Carved:  gemstones, granite, ice, ivory, marble, plaster, stone, wax, wood.  Cast:  cement, metal, plaster, resin, wax.
• Modeled:  clay, paper-mache, plaster, sand.
• Assembled:  beads, cardboard, edible material, found objects, adhesives, paperboard, textile, wire, wood.

Four Dimensional Art (space & time):
• Performing Arts:  body, face, presence (dance, theater)
• Film & Video:  screenwriting, cinematography, directing, editing, producing.

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