Visual Art Medium
Also known as
- art medium,
- art media
An artistic medium is the substance the artistic work is made from. So for example acrylic and oil are two media common to painting.
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Mona Lisa |
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint consisting of small pigment particles suspended in a drying oil. Oil paints have been used in England as early as the 13th century for simple decoration, but were not widely adopted for artistic purposes...
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| Guernica | ||||
| White Flag | ||||
| Samson and Delilah | ||||
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| Acrylic paint |
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Voice of Fire |
Acrylic paint is fast-drying paint containing pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted (with water) or modified with...
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| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | ||||
| Life Imitating Art Imitating Life Imitating Art | ||||
| Whaam! | ||||
| The Bridge | ||||
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| Watercolor paint |
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Comedy |
Watercolor (US) or Watercolour (UK) (and "aquarelle" in French) is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork, in which the paint are made of pigments suspended in a water soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common...
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| A Young Lady's Adventure | ||||
| Eggplant | ||||
| Monument, Bermuda | ||||
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| Gouache |
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The Hat Makes the Man |
Gouache (from the Italian guazzo, "water paint, splash") or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historian) is a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water. Gouache differs from watercolor in that the particles are larger, the ratio of...
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| Four Part Brushstrokes | ||||
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| Gelatin-silver process | Untitled (Man and mirror) |
The gelatin-silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto acetate film or fiber-based or resin coated paper and allowed to...
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| C-print | Soliloquy V |
C-print or Kodak C-print is a common brand name for a "color coupler print" or "digital color coupler print" and refers specifically to a photographic print made from a color negative using the same extremely light-sensitive silver salts as found in...
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| Encaustic painting |
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White Flag |
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigment are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.
The...
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| Newsprint |
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White Flag |
Newsprint is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. It is generally made by a mechanical milling process, without the chemical process that is usually used to remove lignin from the pulp. The lignin causes the paper to rapidly become brittle and...
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| Fabric | White Flag | |||
| Come Together | ||||
| Passepartout | ||||
| Divina Chair | ||||
| Franciscan II | ||||
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| Charcoal |
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White Flag |
'''Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by heating wood, sugar, bone char, or other substances in...
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| Church Façade/Church at Domburg (formerly Cathedral) | ||||
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| Ceramic |
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Fountain |
The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικός (keramikos). The term covers inorganic non-metallic materials which are formed by the action of heat. Up until the 1950s or so, the most important of these were the traditional clay, made...
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| YaYa Ho Lighting System | ||||
| Skyscraper Vase | ||||
| Iceberg | ||||
| Untitled, from the Step series | ||||
| Varnish | The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even |
Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film primarily used in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and a thinner or solvent. Varnish finishes are usually gloss...
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| Foil | The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even | |||
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Website Category | Flag |
A newspaper is a written publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment,...
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| Pastel |
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Woman I |
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low...
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| Oedipus Complex | ||||
| Untitled (Head of a young man with model airplane), study for the mural... | ||||
| Untitled (Ducks) | ||||
| Untitled (Landscape on mirror table) | ||||
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| Crayon |
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Woman I |
A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing and drawing. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel. A grease pencil or china...
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| The Scream | ||||
| Quattro Stagioni: Primavera | ||||
| City Rooftop | ||||
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| Graphite |
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Woman I |
The mineral graphite, as with diamond and fullerene, is one of the allotropes of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Greek γραφειν (graphein): "to draw/write", for its use in pencil, where it is commonly called lead, as...
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| Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color | ||||
| Junior High School, Hertforshire, England | ||||
| Suprematist Drawing | ||||
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| Photograph |
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Database topic | Atlas: Panel 8 |
A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens...
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| Clandestine | ||||
| Still Life | ||||
| One Onion Canon | ||||
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| Porcelain |
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Michael Jackson and Bubbles |
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and . The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain arise mainly from the formation of glass...
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| Porcelain Lamp | ||||
| #2 Exile Series | ||||
| Skepticism and the Life of Emile Zola | ||||
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| Beeswax |
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Untitled |
For the rock song by Nirvana, see Beeswax (song). Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bee of the genus Apis. Beeswax is produced by young worker bee between 12 and 17 days old in the form of thin scales secreted by gland on...
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| AIDS | ||||
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| Untitled Leg | ||||
| The Passageway | ||||
| Human hair | Untitled | |||
| Willow |
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Organism Classification | Untitled |
Willows, sallows and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous tree and shrub, found primarily on moist soil in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved shrub...
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| Bronze |
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Untitled |
Bronze is any of a broad range of copper alloys, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon. (See table below.) It was particularly significant in antiquity, giving...
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| The Thinker | ||||
| Amoeba | ||||
| Boudica and Her Daughters | ||||
| Judith and Holofernes | ||||
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| Silver plating | Untitled | |||
| Pewter |
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Drains |
Pewter is a metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder consisting of copper and antimony, acting as hardeners, with the addition of lead for the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. The word pewter is...
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| Screen-printing |
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Untitled |
Screenprinting, silkscreening, or serigraphy is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged image using a stencil. A screenprint or serigraph is an image created using this technique.
It began as an industrial technology, and was then...
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| Daystones | ||||
| Knoll Shopping Bag | ||||
| Princeton University School of Architecture Fall 1993 Lectures | ||||
| Cover Your Head/Wear a Condom! | ||||
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| Wax |
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Large Girl with No Eyes |
Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bee (beeswax) and used by them in constructing their honeycomb.
It is an imprecisely defined term generally understood to be a substance with properties similar to beeswax, namely
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| HOMAGE TO CHESSMAN | ||||
| HEART/WORM/MIRROR | ||||
| Hippopotamus Poison | ||||
| Hanging Heads #2 (Blue Andrew with Plug/White Julie, Mouth Closed) | ||||
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| Metal |
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Francis Bacon |
In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is defined as an element that readily loses electrons to form positive ion (cations) and forms metallic bond between other metal atoms (forming ionic bonds with non-metals).
The metals of the periodic table...
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| Mobile | ||||
| Bed for Ralph du Casse | ||||
| Ducati Senna 916 Series III Motorcycle | ||||
| Trophy IV (For John Cage) | ||||
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| Tempera |
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The Scream |
Tempera (also known as egg tempera) is a type of artist's paint and associated art techniques that were known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic and was the main medium used for panel painting and...
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| The Birth of Venus | ||||
| Doni Tondo | ||||
| The Entombment | ||||
| Madonna and Child | ||||
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