Art medium

Refers to the art materials or artist supplies used to create a work of art.

Methods of art presentation and production

Realism
It is the attempt to portray the subject as is. The artist selects, changes, and arranges details
to express the idea he wants to make clear.
The artist main function is to describe accurately what is observed through the senses.

Abstraction
It means to move away or separate. Abstract art moves away from showing things as they
really are.
The art work is not realistic.

Types of abstract art

Distortion. The subject is in misshaped condition.

Elongation. The subject is lengthened for protraction or extension.
Mangling, Subjects are either cut, lacerated, mutilated or hacked.
Cubism. Subjects are shown in basic geometrical shapes.

Symbolism
The presentation of an invisible sign such as an idea or a quality into something visible.

Fauvism
Themes are either ethical, philosophical or psychological. Subjects express comfort, joy or
happiness.

Dadaism
A protest movement formed in 1916 by a group of artist in Zurich, Switzerland. They try to
provoke the public with outrageous forms of arts.
Came from the French word “dada” meaning “hobby horse”.

Futurism
Its’ works aims to capture the speed and force of modern industrial society and to glorify the
mechanical energy of modern life.

Surrealism
Founded in Paris in 1924 by French poet Andre Breton.
It tries to reveal a new and higher reality than that of daily life. They claim to create a
magical world more beautiful than the real one through art.
It came from the slang of super realism.

Expressionism
Necessity of a spiritual rebirth for man in an age that was fast becoming influenced by
materialism

Impressionism
Presenting the real life subject with emphasis on the impression left in the artist’s mind,
particularly the effect of light on the object used as a subject.
Performing arts
Are arts form in which artists use their voices and/or the movements of their body, often in
relation to other objects, to convey artist expression as opposed to.
Performing arts may include dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic,
illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry, circus arts, performance art, recitation and public
speaking.

Mediums of visual arts

The medium of medium arts are: painting (oil, acrylic or watercolor), sculpture, ceramics,
photography, mixed media, digital art, installation art, earth art, video art.