Discussion about subjects and mediums of painting.

1. Painting
Art of applying pigments to a surface

2. Mediums of painting

3. Oil
•Use of ground pigments mixed with
linseed oil and turpentine or thinner
•Long-lasting, slow in drying, easy to
handle and manipulate texturally, and
capable of being corrected

4. Two ways
Direct method
• The paints are opaque and
once they are applied on the
surface, they dry up and give
the finished product its final
appearance
Indirect method
• The paints are transparent
and they are applied in many
thin layers or coatings

5. Girl with a Pearl Earring
is an oil painting by
17th-century Dutch
painter Johannes
Vermee

6. Mona Lisa
•Leonardo da Vinci

8. Fresco
•Italian for fresh
•Use of earth pigments mixed with water
and applied to fresh plaster or glue
which attaches the color to the surface
like a wall

9. Fresco
•Biggest advantage is durability
Wet
plaster
Painting is buon
fresco or true
fresco
Dry
plaster
Painting is
fresco secco or
dry fresco

10. Ceiling of Sistine Chapel was painted by
Michelangelo

11. Fresco
•Number of disadvantages
•Quick to dry
•Not movable since permanently attached
to walls
•Subject to loss

12. Watercolor
•Use of pigments mixed with water and
applied to fine white paper
•Cambric, parchment, ivory, and silk can
also be used as surface
•Colors are applied in very thin layers
and all the light comes from the ground

13. Thomas
Girtin,
Jedburgh
Abbey from
the River,
1798–99,
watercolor on
paper

14. John Singer
Sargent,
White Ships.
Brooklyn
Museum

15. Tempera
•The use of ground pigments mixed with
an albuminous or colloidal vehicle (egg
yolk, gum, glue, or casein)
•Readily dries and it gives a luminous
tone on a wooden panel

16. Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

17. Madonna and
the Child by
Duccio di
Buoninsegna

18. Pastel
•Use of pastel colors closely resembling
dry pigments bound to form crayons,
which are directly applied to the surface,
oftentimes paper
•Less popular because of the tendency of
the chalk to rub off

19. “La Toilette” (Woman
Combing Her Hair) by
Edgar Degas

20. Kenneth Noland,
“Beginning”
(1958), magna on
canvas, Hirshhorn
Museum and
Sculpture Garden

21. Acrylic
•Use of synthetic paints called acrylics
mixed with a vehicle capable og being
thinned with water.
•Acrylic emulsion or polymer as its
binding agent
•No tendency to crack and to darken or
yellow with age

22. Acrylic Fluid
Painting 61
by Mark-Chadwick

23. "River" by Justyna
Kopania

24. Encaustic
•Use of hots wax as a vehicle to bind
pigments to a wooden panel or a wall
•It has durability with its colors remaining
vibrant and its surface maintaining a
hard luster
•Less popular because it is difficult to
manipulate

25. Portrait of Johann
Benjamin Michaelis
by Benjamin Calau,
Gleimhaus, 1770

26. PEDRO CUNI BRAVO Queens Boulevard - 2008

27. Subjects of painting

28. Portraiture
•Picture of men and women singly or
collectively
•Became a hit but only for the elite who
could afford the services of good
painters
•Charcoal is used as medium

29. Plants and animals
•Prehistoric men used to draw plants and
animals they encountered
•Many painters today prefer animals and
plants, specifically flowers

30. Plants and animals

32. Still life
•Painting of inanimate object or a non-
living thing placed on a table or another
setting
Basket of
fruits
Bag of
groceries
Pack of
cigarettes
Bunch of
flowers
Bucket of
chicken

34. Country life
•Scenes happening daily in the
countryside
Barrio
fiesta
Fluvial
parade
Bountiful
rice harvest
Big catch of
fishes
Natural
calamity

36. Landscape
•Any of the land forms
Volcano Mountain Hill Valley
Plain Plateau cliff

38. Seascape
•Any of the water forms
Oceans Sea Rive Lake
Brook Pond Falls

40. Cityscape
•Any aerial view of the city or a portion of
it

42. Event
Christian Virgins Being Exposed To The Populace by Felix Hidalgo

43. Event

44. Religious items

45. Others
•Mythological
•Fictional
•Cartoon characters

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