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  2. List of art media - Wikipedia

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    Cutout animation. Drawn-on-film animation. Stop motion. Live action. Puppet film. Video art. Single-channel video. Video installation. Film, as a form of mass communication, is itself also considered a medium in the sense used by fields such as sociology and communication theory (see also mass media).

  3. Medium specificity - Wikipedia

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    Medium specific can be seen to mean that "the artwork is constituted by the characteristic qualities of the raw material." This would probably include the techniques used to manipulate the materials. "Medium-specificity is based on the distinct materiality of artistic media." As early as 1776 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "contends that an artwork ...

  4. Art - Wikipedia

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    Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; modernism used art to call attention to art. The limitations that constitute the medium of painting—the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of the pigment—were treated by the Old Masters as negative factors that could be acknowledged only ...

  5. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, may be used.

  6. Tempera - Wikipedia

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    The art technique was known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting [citation needed] and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and Medieval and Early Renaissance Europe. Tempera painting was the primary panel painting medium for nearly every ...

  7. Mixed media - Wikipedia

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    Mixed media art by Adam Niklewicz. In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. [1][2] Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art include, but are not limited to, paint, cloth, paper, wood and ...

  8. Pastel - Wikipedia

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    Pastel. A pastel (US: / pæˈstɛl /) is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, or a pan of color, though other forms are possible. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those used to produce some other colored visual arts media, such as oil ...

  9. Charcoal (art) - Wikipedia

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    Artists' charcoal is charcoal used as a dry art medium. Both compressed charcoal (held together by a gum or wax binder) and charcoal sticks (wooden sticks burned in a kiln without air) are used. [1] The marks it leaves behind on paper are much less permanent than with other media such as graphite, and so lines can easily be erased and blended ...