MIXING MEDIUMS AND

EXPLORING NEW
TECHNIQUES
ARTS LESSON 3
INTRODUCTION
• The fast pace of the petroleum-based development of industrial technology led
to increased consumerism and wastage.
• Smog and acid rain containing atmosphere toxins damage the environment,
and the rising cost of our battles against infectious diseases and malnutrition
used up health resources worldwide (DaSilva, 2004)
• These changes challenge artists who reacted in different ways. Some used art
to vent out their emotions while some disregarded the conventions of art and
came up with artworks that made statements about the human condition.
• From 1905 to 1941, experimentation in technique and
subject matter came as a result of modernization,
scientific, engineering, and intellectual development.
• The discovery of photography and film changed the
American vision and art representation dramatically.
• Travel was made easy by the new railroad system.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
• An artist who introduced his
ready-made objects such as
Fountain, a urinal removed from
its utilitarian function in the toilet
and moved to the museum, thus,
posing as one of the artworks on
display.
THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
ARTISTS ARE OF THREE TYPES:
• (a) the sensationalists who want break away from artistic
conventions and reject most accepted values;
• (b) the experimentalists who seek new methods and
combinations of materials to express themselves;
• (c) the artists who combine what is good in the
sensationalists and experimentalists and what is valid in
the past into their new artistic expression (World, 1996)
COMPOSITION
•The arrangement of the elements of art
to create a unified whole. It shows how
the different elements complemented
one another and make the artwork
pleasing to the viewer.
PROCESS
•The procedure taken to do an
artwork. It tells how the artist
used various materials in
creating the artwork.
SYMBOL
•Something that stands for an
object or idea. For example, the
horse is a symbol of power and
majesty. The sun stands for
knowledge and wisdom.
MEDIUM
•The material which the artist
used for his or her art. Some
examples of mediums used in art
making are:
1. FINGER PAINTING ACRYLIC
•The pigments used in
finger painting are pastry
substances mixed with
water and smeared on
slick paper with the finger.
2. WATERCOLOR
•Mixed with water and applied
to paper with a brush. The
colors are transparent which
means that the colors beneath
will show if your paint another
color on top.
3. POSTER PAINT
•This medium is sometimes called
opaque watercolor. Colors can be
painted over one another and those
underneath do not show through.
•Casein should be used on a hard
surface such as wood rather than on
paper or canvas
4. OIL PAINT
•Oil paints are made by mixing
pigments with oil to form a thick
substance like toothpaste. Oil paint
can be thinned with turpentine. Oil
paints dry very slowly. But once
dries, colors can be painted over
and corrections can be made.
5. ACRYLIC
•This is called plastic
paints. It is water-based,
quick drying, durable,
and adaptable to any
surface.
6. PASTELS
•These pigments are molded into
sticks similar to chalk. The colors
are used like crayons, and once
applied, they smudge easily and
must be protected by a fixative to
let pigment stay in place.