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Education and training Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop system In Europe the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists and today most train in art schools at a tertiary level Visual arts have now become an elective subject in most education systems see also art education Drawing Main article Drawing Drawing is a means of making an image using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques It generally involves making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a tool or moving a tool across a surface using dry media such as graphite pencils pen and ink inked brushes wax color pencils crayons charcoals pastels and markers Digital tools which simulate the effects of these are also used The main techniques used in drawing are line drawing hatching crosshatching random hatching scribbling stippling and blending An artist who excels in drawing is referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman Early history Drawing goes back at least 16 000 years to Paleolithic cave representations of animals such as those at Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain In ancient Egypt ink drawings on papyrus often depicting people were used as models for painting or sculture Drawings on Greek vases initially geometric later developed to the human form with black figure pottery during the 7th century BC Renaissance With paper becoming common in Europe by the 15th century drawing was adopted by masters such as Sandro Botticelli Raphael Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci who sometimes treated drawing as an art in its own right rather than a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture Painting Mosaic of Battle of Issus Main article Painting Nefertari with Isis Painting taken literally is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier or medium and a binding agent a glue to a surface support such as paper canvas or a wall However when used in an artistic sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing composition and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner Painting is also used to express spiritual motifs and ideas sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to The Sistine Chapel to the human body itself Origins and early history Main article History of painting Like drawing painting has its origins in caves and on rock faces The finest examples believed by some to be 32 000 Years Old are in the Chauvet and Lascaux caves in southern France In shades of red brown yellow and black the paintings on the walls and ceilings are of bison cattle horses and deer Raphael Transfiguration 1520 Paintings of human figures can be found in the tombs of ancient Egypt In the great temple of Ramses II Nefertari his queen is depicted being led by Isis The Greeks contributed to the development of painting but much of their work has been lost One of the best remaining representations is the mosaic of the Battle of Issus found at Pompeii which was probably based on a Greek painting Greek and Roman art contributed to Byzantine art in the 4th century BC which initiated a tradition in icon painting The Renaissance Main article Italian Renaissance painting Apart from the illuminated manuscripts produced by monks during the Middle Ages the next significant contribution to European art was from Italy s renaissance painters From Giotto in the 13th century to Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at the beginning of the 16th century this was the richest period in Italian art as the chiaroscuro technique was used to create the illusion of 3 D space Rembrandt The Night Watch Painters in northern Europe too were influenced by the Italian school Jan van Eyck from Belgium Pieter Bruegel the Elder from the Netherlands and Hans Holbein the Younger from Germany are among the most successful painters of the times They used the glazing technique with oils to achieve depth and luminosity Claude Monet Djeuner sur l herbe 1866 Dutch masters Main article Dutch Golden Age painting The 17th century saw the emergence of the great Dutch masters such as the versatile Rembrandt who is especially remembered for his potraits and Bible scenes and Vermeer who specialized in interior scenes of Dutch life Impressionism Main article Impressionism Impressionism began in France in the 19th century with a loose association of artists including Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir and Paul Czanne who brought a new freely brushed style to painting often choosing to paint realistic scenes of modern life outside rather than in the studio They achieved intense colour vibration by using pure unmixed colours and short brush strokes Paul Gauguin The Vision After the Sermon 1888 Edvard Munch The Scream 1893 Post impressionism Main article Post Impressionism Towards the end of the 19th century several young painters took impressionism a stage further using geometric forms and unnatural colour to depict emotions while striving for deeper symbolism Of particular note are Paul Gauguin who was strongly influenced by Asian African and Japanese art Vincent van Gogh a Dutchman who moved to France where he drew on the strong sunlight of the south and Toulouse Lautrec remembered for his vivid paintings of night life in the Paris district of Montmartre Symbolism expressionism and cubism Main article Modern art Edvard Munch a Norwegian artist developed his symbolistic approach at the end of the 19th century inspired by the French impressionist Manet The Scream 1893 his most famous work is widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man Partly as a result of Munch s influence the German expressionist movement originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century as artists such as Ernst Kirschner and Erich Heckel began to distort reality for an emotional effect In parallel the style known as cubism developed in France as artists focused on the volume and space of sharp structures within a composition Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the leading proponents of the movement Objects are broken up analyzed and re assembled in an abstracted form By the 1920s the style had developed into surrealism with Dali and Magritte Printmaking The Chinese Diamond Sutra the world s oldest printed book 868 CE Ancient Chinese engraving of female instrumentalists Main article Printmaking Printmaking is creating for artistic purposes an image on a matrix which is then transferred to a two dimensional flat surface by means of ink or another form of pigmentation Except in the case of a monotype the same matrix can be used to produce many examples of the print Historically the major techniques also called media involved are woodcut line engraving etching lithography and screenprinting serigraphy silkscreening but there are many others including modern digital techniques Normally the surface upon which the print is printed is paper but there are exceptions from cloth and vellum to modern materials Prints in the Western tradition produced before about 1830 are known as old master prints There are other major printmaking traditions especially that of Japan ukiyo e Chinese origins Albrecht Drer Melancholia I 1541 Main article Woodblock printing In China the art of printmaking developed some 1 100 years ago as illustrations alongside text cut in woodblocks for printing on paper Initially images were mainly religious but in the Song Dynasty artists began to cut landscapes During the Ming 1368 1644 and Qing 1616 1911 dynasties the technique was perfected for both religious and artistic engravings European history Main article Old master print In Europe from around 1400 AD woodcut was used for master prints on paper by using techniques for printing on cloth which had been developed in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds Michael Wolgemut improved German woodcut from about 1475 and Erhard Reuwich a Dutchman was the first to use cross hatching At the end of the century Albrecht Drer brought the Western woodcut to a level that has never been surpassed increasing the status of the single leaf woodcut Photography Main article Photography Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects are recorded onto a sensitive medium or storage chip through a timed exposure The process is done through mechanical chemical or digital devices known as cameras The word comes from the Greek words phos light and graphis stylus paintbrush or graph together meaning drawing with light or representation by means of lines or drawing Traditionally the product of photography has been called a photograph The term photo is an abbreviation many people also call them pictures In digital photography the term image has begun to replace photograph The term image is traditional in geometric optics Filmmaking Main article Filmmaking Filmmaking is the process of making a motion picture from an initial conception and research through scriptwriting shooting and recording animation or other special effects editing sound and music work and finally distribution to an audience it refers broadly to the creation of all types of films embracing documentary strains of theatre and literature in film and poetic or experimental practices and is often used to refer to video based processes as well This section requires expansion Computer art Main article Computer art Picture produced by Drawing Machine 2 Visual artists are no longer limited to traditional art media Computers have been used as an ever more common tool in the visual art since the 1960s Uses for computers in the visual arts include the capturing or creating of images and forms the editing of those images and forms including exploring multiple compositions and then the final rendering and or printing including 3D printing Computer art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork Such art can be an image sound animation video CD ROM DVD video game website algorithm performance or gallery installation Many traditional disciplines are now integrating digital technologies and as a result the lines between traditional works of art and new media works created using computers have been blurred For instance an artist may combine traditional painting with algorithmic art and other digital techniques As a result defining computer art by its end product can thus be difficult Nevertheless this type of art is beginning to appear in art museum exhibits though it has yet to prove its legitimacy as a form unto itself and this technology is widely seen in contemporary art more as a tool rather than a form as with painting Computer usage has blurred the distinctions between illustrators photographers photo editors 3 D modelers and handicraft artists Sophisticated rendering and editing software has led to multi skilled image developers Photographers may become digital artists Illustrators may become animators Handicraft may be computer aided or use computer generated imagery as a template Computer clip art usage has also made the clear distinction between visual arts and page layout less obvious due to the easy access and editing of clip art in the process of paginating a document especially to the unskilled observer Sculpture Main article Sculpture Sculpture is three dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material sound and or text and or light commonly stone either rock or marble metal glass or wood Some sculptures are created directly by finding or carving others are assembled built together and fired welded molded or cast Sculptures are often painted A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor Because sculpture involves the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated it is considered one of the plastic arts The majority of public art is sculpture Many sculptures together in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden Copyright protection of visual art In the United States the law protecting the copyright over a piece of visual art gives a more restrictive definition of visual art The following quote is from the Copyright Law of the United States of America Chapter 1 A ork of visual art is 1 a painting drawing print or sculpture existing in a single copy in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author or in the case of a sculpture in multiple cast carved or fabricated sculptures of 200 or fewer that are consecutively numbered by the author and bear the signature or other identifying mark of the author or 2 a still photographic image produced for exhibition purposes only existing in a single copy that is signed by the author or in a limited edition of 200 copies or fewer that are signed and consecutively numbered by the author A work of visual art does not include A i any poster map globe chart technical drawing diagram model applied art motion picture or other audiovisual work book magazine newspaper periodical data base electronic information service electronic publication or similar publication ii any merchandising item or advertising promotional descriptive covering or packaging material or container iii any portion or part of any item described in clause i or ii B any work made for hire or C any work not subject to copyright protection under this title References An About com article by art expert Shelley Esaak What Is Visual Art Visual Arts in Germany as a Career Choice http www georgebrown ca centres AD index aspx Centre for Arts and Design in Toronto Canada Art History Arts and Crafts Movement 1861 1900 From World Wide Arts Resources Retrieved 24 October 2009 History of Drawing From Dibujos para Pintar Retrieved 23 October 2009 Drawing From History com Retrieved 23 October 2009 History of Painting From History World Retrieved 23 October 2009 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