Unit 3: Mediums and Techniques

 

The Medium and techniques an artist uses can say a lot about that particular artist and how they view art. Contemporary artists tend to focus on having great technique. This includes clean brush strokes, picturesque landscapes, and liberate touches of light and shadows. Meanwhile, abstract artists tend to deliberate create shapes and lines that are anything but picturesque. Abstract artists aim to confuse their audience, and peek their interest so that the audience can interpret it in its own way. An artist's emotion will always show in their technique and medium. If the art is dark colored and filled with jagged lines and blood it can convey the anger or pain the artist was feeling. Just as if an artist uses warm colors and smooth strokes we immediately relate it to them feeling comfortable or happy when they created the art. My creative bug tends to come out through my writing. As I look back at my poetry books and short stories, I can always tell if I was happy, angry, or sad when I wrote it. No matter how much I try to disguise my true feelings by putting the characters in happy situations, my emotions always show up in that piece of writing. In the same sense I feel that artists can try to manipulate art, but ultimately every piece of art shows the true colors of the artist. From the moment the artist chooses between printmaking and painting or cross hatching instead of linear lines a poem begins, and as time passes it takes shape around the artist's emotions and background.