1. Humanities
Visual Art

2. What Is Visual Art?
-Unlike the performing arts (music, drama and dance) visual art is generally produced without an audience.
-The audience typically sees the work after it has been completed.
Visual art is usually a finished product.

3. What is it made of?
-Visual art can be made from almost any type of material (medium/media).

4. Medium: paint The Blue Boat 1892. Winslow Homer Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
watercolor on paper

5. Medium: paint Mona Lisa, 1503-05. Leonardo da Vinci The Louvre, Paris
Oil on poplar

6. Medium: paint Separation of Light from Darkness, 1512. Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel,
Vatican.
Fresco (paint
in/on plaster)

7. Medium: drawing materials
Saskia Asleep,
c.1642.
Rembrandt.
British Museum,
London.
ink wash on paper

8. Medium: drawing materials
Self Portrait, 1512.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Biblioteca Reale, Turin.
red chalk on paper

9. Medium: sculpture Mother and Child, 1971. Elizabeth Catlett.
Collection of Alan Swift
walnut

10. Medium: sculpture The Three Soldiers, 1984. Frederick Hart. The Mall,
Washington, D.C.
bronze

11. Medium: sculpture Pieta, 1498-99. Michelangelo St. Peter’s Basilica,
Vatican.

12. Medium: environmental art
Spiral Jetty, 1970.
Robert Smithson.
Great Salt Lake, Utah
basalt, sand

13. Medium: pottery Amphora, c. 520 b.c. The Andokides Painter.
Munich, Germany.

14. Medium: found materials
Bull’s Head, 1943.
Pablo Picasso.
Galerie Louise
Leiris, Paris.
bicycle parts

15. Medium: photography Clearing Winter Storm, 1944. Ansel Adams.
Yosemite National
Park, California.

16. Medium: film
Fantasia, 1940
Walt Disney

17. Medium: architecture Flat Iron Building, 1902. Daniel Burnham,
Frederick Dinkelburg
New York, NY.

18. Medium: Performance art
Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me. 5/
Joseph Beuys. Performance at Rene Block Gallery, New York.

19. So, what is art?
Just about anything can become art.