An introduction to the artistic mediums of drawing and painting based on the textbook "Gateways to Art"(2012). Includes a critical thinking exercise at the end asking students to compare Jan van Eyck's artistic practice with Parisian street artist, JR's 'Inside Out' project.

1. Art Appreciation: Drawing &
Painting
Professor Paige Prater
T, R, 9:30-10:50AM

2. 10 Elements of Art:

4. Drawing: Dry Media
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Pencil
Charcoal
Silverpoint
Conté crayon
Chalk
Pastel
Crayon

5. Drawing: Pencil
Ilka Gedö, Self-portrait, 1944.
Graphite on paper, 11 5/8”x8 3/8”.
British Museum, London, England.

7. Drawing: Colored Pencil
Birgit Megerle,
Untitled, 2003. Pencil
and colored pencil on
paper, 16 ¾” x 11 ¾” –
MOMA, New York.

8. Drawing: Charcoal
Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait in Profile to
Left, 1933. Charcoal on Paper. 18 ¾” x 25”.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, An Elderly
Peasant Woman, c. 1878. Charcoal on
wove paper, 18 ¾” x 15 5/8” National
Gallery of Art, Washingon, D.C.

9. Drawing: Silverpoint
Raphael, Heads of the
Virgin and Child, c. 150911. Silverpoint on Pink
Prepared Paper. 5 5/8” x
4 3/8”. British
Musuem, London, Engla
nd.

10. Drawing: Conté crayon
Georges Seurat, Trees
on the Bank of the Seine
(Study for Le Grande
Jatte), 1884. Black
Conté Crayon on White
Laid Paper. 24 ½” x 18
½”. Art Institute of
Chicago.

11. Drawing: Chalk
Michelangelo, Studies for the
Libyan Sibyl, 1510-11. Red chalk, 11
3/8” x 8 3/8”. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.

12. Drawing: Pastel
Edgar
Degas, The
Tub, 1886.
Pastel, 23
5/8” x 32
5/8”, Muse
e d’
Orsay, Pari
s, France.

13. Drawing: Wet Media
• Ink
• Quill & Pen
• Brush & ink

14. Drawing: Ink
Vincent Van Gogh, Sower with Setting Sun, 1888. Pen and brown
ink, 9 5/8” x 12 5/8”. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

15. Types of Ink
• Carbon ink: 2500 BCE in China/India
– soot+water+gum
– Smudges
• India ink: contemporary version of carbon ink
• Iron gall ink:
– tannin (oak galls/parasitic on trees)+iron sulfate+gum
arabic+water
– Not lightfast
• Bistre: wood soot/yellow-brown
• Sepia: derived from cuttlefish secretions!

16. Drawing: Ink
Claude Lorrain, The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South, 1640.
Dark brown wash on white paper, 7 3/8” x 10 5/8”. British Museum,
London, England.

17. Drawing: Process
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Life-drawing
Plaster cast
Photographs
Gesture
Contour
Henri Matisse, Themes and Variations, series
P, Woman Seated in an Armchair, 1942. Pen
and ink 19 ¾” x 15 ¾”. Musee des BeauxArts, Lyons, France.

18. Painting
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Encaustic
Tempera
Fresco: buon & secco
Oil
– Impasto
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Acrylic (1950)
Watercolor/gouache
Ink
Spray paint

19. Painting: Encaustic
Portrait of a Boy, c. 100150 CE. Encaustic on
Wood, 15 3/8” x 7 ½”.
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958, Whitney Museum of
Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unExZ9LUuv8

20. Painting: Tempera
• EGGS!
• The Virgin and Child with
Angels, Ferrarese School, c.
1470-80. Tempera, oil, and
gold, on panel, 23 x 17 3/8”.
National Gallery of
Scotland, Edinburgh.

21. Painting: Fresco
• Fresco secco - dry
• Buon fresco – wet
– https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=-prAIz0urTE
– Michelangelo’s technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=Cej4Ggq5nQI
Michelangelo, The Libyan
Sibyl, 1511-12. Fresco. Detail
of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling,
Vatican City.

22. Painting: Oil
Jan van Eyck, The
Madonna of
Chancellor Rolin,
1430-34. Oil on
wood, 26 x24
3/8”. Musee de
Louvre, Paris,
France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs6Q3IciYG0&list=WLlePteh
ZrJwhNPA_a1nuc2XiQZyqu3qKc

23. Jan van Eyck
• Most Astonishing Oil
Painter
• “As I Can”
• Man in a Red
Turban, 1433. Oil on
wood panel. The
National
Gallery, London

24. Painting: Oil (impasto)
Joan Brown, Girl in Chair, 1962. Oil
on canvas, 5 x 4’. LACMA.

25. Painting: Acrylic
• Pigment
suspended
in polymer
resin
• Only in use
since
~1950!
Roger Shimomura, Untitled, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 5’ ½” x 6’ ¼”.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

26. Painting: Watercolor/Gouache
• Pigment suspended with
sticky binder
• French: honey!
• Watercolor= transparent
• Gouache helps make it
opaque (usually chalk)
• Painted on PAPER
• Highly portable!
Albrecht Durer, A Young Hare, 1502. Watercolor and gouache on
paper, 9 7/8” x 8 7/8”. Graphische Sammlung

27. Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
Self-Portrait,
1500. Oil on
wood panel,
26 ¼ x 19 ¼”.
Alte
Pinakothek,
Munich.
Melencolia I, 1514.
Engraving, 9 3/8 x 7 ½”.
Victoria and Albert
Museum, London.

28. Painting: Ink
(gum Arabic binder)
Versus drawing with ink: no binder
Suzuki Shonen, Fireflies at Uji
River, Meigi period, 1868-1912.
Ink, co.lor, and gold on silk;
hanging scroll, 13 ¾” x 50”. Clark
Family Collection.

29. Painting: Spray Paint/ Wall Art
John Matos, a.k.a.
“Crash”, Aeroplane 1, 1983. Spray
paint on canvas, 5’ 11 ¼” x 8’ 7”.
Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Blek le Rat, David with the Machine
Gun, 2006. New York.

30. Critical Thinking: Can Art Change the
World? Group Work…
• French Street Artist, JR’s ‘Inside Out’ project:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn2W3X_pGh4 (~6 minutes)
http://www.dallasdesigndistrict.net/2014/01/jrs-inside-out-project-comes-todallas-via-the-dallas-contemporary/
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What is JR’s street art project?
How does he accomplish it?
What is it changing?
Who is it changing?
Is art being made on a more global scale?
How does our artistic context compare with that of van Eyck?
Can you draw any similarities between van Eyck and JR? What
differences?