What
is the Visual Arts?
The
visual arts
are those creations we can look at, such as a drawing or a painting. Art
forms that create works that are
primarily visual in nature.
The
visual arts contains some of the following:
- Drawing
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Architecture
- Photography
- Ceramics
- Film/Video
and Film Making
- CAD –
Computer Aided Design (since the 1960’s)
- Collage
- Printmaking
to name but a few.
However,
there are many more that can be added to this list.
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other
medium to a surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush
but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and fingers/hands can be used.
•In
art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action.
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| Van Gogh, Sunflowers |
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| Da Vinci, Mona Lisa |
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| Picasso, Weeping Woman |
What
is drawing?
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing
instruments, such as a pencil,
charcoal stick, ink pen, graphite stick, crayons, coloured pencils, chalk or
pastels to make marks on a
two-dimensional medium
(paper).
The
instrument leaves a small amount of material on the two-dimensional
medium (paper) by leaving a visible mark .
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| Steven Wilshire |
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| Steven Wiltshire |
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| M C Escher |
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| M C Escher |
What
is Photography?
Photography is
the art, science, and practice of creating images
by recording light, either chemically on photographic film (light sensitive), or electronically by means of an image sensor (digital).
•A
lens is used to focus the light reflected or
emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a
camera
during
a timed exposure.
•The
word PHOTOGRAPHY
means ‘DRAWING WITH LIGHT’.
•The
history of photography commenced with the invention and development of the
camera and the creation of permanent images starting with Thomas Wedgwood in
1790 and culminating in the work of the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
in 1826.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's
earliest surviving camera photograph, c1826:
‘View
from the Window at Le Gras’
(Saint-Loup-de-Varennes,
France) |
Create
a VISUALLY interesting 3 page spread (a page for
each visual art, drawing, painting and photography) on ‘The Visual Arts’ – plan
your pages and background before you stick any work down.
Task 1…
Create
an interesting title ‘The Visual Arts’
Task 2…
Ensure
you include what each visual art is from the previous slides.
Task 3…
Include
hand drawn and/or colour printed examples – annotate these examples.
1.You
must produce a visually interesting page on ‘The Visual Arts’.
2.You
must include a selection of printed and/or hand drawn examples of painting,
drawing and photography.
3.You
must annotate your page and examples.
4.Must
be in colour.
5.You
must include what ‘The Visual Arts’ are – use the descriptions on the previous
slides.
Until next time Miss C x
So I have many plans for my Easter two week holiday. 
