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Understanding Visual Art: Its Forms, Mediums, and Audience

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Visual art is a unique form of expression distinct from performing arts like music or theater, as it is created without an audience in mind and is typically viewed only after completion. This art can be crafted from a wide array of materials such as paint, drawing mediums, sculpture, photography, and even found objects. From masterpieces like the Mona Lisa to contemporary installations like Spiral Jetty, visual art encompasses an endless variety of forms and styles, challenging our perceptions of what art truly is and can be.

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Understanding Visual Art: Its Forms, Mediums, and Audience

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  1. Humanities Visual Art

  2. What Is Visual Art? • -Unlike the performing arts (music, drama and dance) visual art is generally produced without an audience. • -The audience typically sees the work after it has been completed. • Visual art is usually a finished product.

  3. What is it made of? • -Visual art can be made from almost any type of material (medium/media).

  4. Medium: paint • The Blue Boat 1892. Winslow Homer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston watercolor on paper

  5. Medium: paint • Mona Lisa, 1503-05. Leonardo da Vinci The Louvre, Paris Oil on poplar

  6. Medium: paint • Separation of Light from Darkness, 1512. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Fresco (paint in/on plaster)

  7. Medium: drawing materials • Saskia Asleep, c.1642. Rembrandt. British Museum, London. ink wash on paper

  8. Medium: drawing materials • Self Portrait, 1512. Leonardo da Vinci. Biblioteca Reale, Turin. red chalk on paper

  9. Medium: sculpture • Mother and Child, 1971. Elizabeth Catlett. Collection of Alan Swift walnut

  10. Medium: sculpture • The Three Soldiers, 1984. Frederick Hart. The Mall, Washington, D.C. bronze

  11. Medium: sculpture • Pieta, 1498-99. Michelangelo St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican.

  12. Medium: environmental art • Spiral Jetty, 1970. Robert Smithson. Great Salt Lake, Utah basalt, sand

  13. Medium: pottery • Amphora, c. 520 b.c. The Andokides Painter. Munich, Germany.

  14. Medium: found materials • Bull’s Head, 1943. Pablo Picasso. Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. bicycle parts

  15. Medium: photography • Clearing Winter Storm, 1944. Ansel Adams. Yosemite National Park, California.

  16. Medium: film • Fantasia, 1940 Walt Disney

  17. Medium: architecture • Flat Iron Building, 1902. Daniel Burnham, Frederick Dinkelburg New York, NY.

  18. Medium: Performance art • Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me. 5/23-25 1974. Joseph Beuys. Performance at Rene Block Gallery, New York.

  19. So, what is art? • Just about anything can become art.

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