Artist / Artisan/

medium/technique
Arts Appreciation
Ateneo de Davao University
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 Artist / Artisan/
medium/technique
-To define artist/ artisan/
-To differentiate artist and artisan
-To define medium
-To identify characteristics
 arTMAKING/pROCESS
1. THESUBJECT ( topic)
2. ACT OF EXPRESSING …medium
manipulation
3. WHEN THE WORK IS
DONE…fulfillment/exhibition
1. PRE-PRODUCTION- medium
manipulation
2. PRODUCTION
3. POST-PRODUCTION
 pre- production
(If play/theatrical production)
• conceptualization of the theme, writing the
script, screenplay
• making auditions for cast selection, casting or
assigning of roles and workshops.
• practice: spacing, staging, lights, music.
• Set rehearsals and press releases
 Production
actual production/exhibition

• refers to the proper presentation of

performing arts
• When more than one production is set,
directors must observe and evaluate the
production to improve the performance of
the casts in the next set. Acknowledging
the sponsors and people involved in the
production is also vital.
 post-production,
• evaluation, critiquing,
• success press release, sending thank you
messages & letters are done.
• Accepting schedules for possible re-
staging
• Re-packaging
Poet
Dancer
Painter
Film
Musician
sculptor
architect
• Art process is not essentially
a natural process; it is an
invention; organization
• Discipline derives from
process/ art making
 Artist-
who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or
skill to create works of aesthetic value,
especially in the Fine Art
– the work is a “leap of Imagination”- process
becomes an adventure
- technique as means to an end
Artisan-
-follow the dictates of the design and is
concerned exclusively with the manipulation of
the material to produce the kind of product
- not free to innovate, copyist, using technique as
an end in itself
 Medium
- refers to the material
or means which the
artist uses to objectify
his/her feeling or
thought
• Technique refers to the artist’s
ability and knowledge or technical
know-how in manipulating the
medium.

• Accord: Arriola- technique is the

manner in which the artist
controls the medium to achieve
desired effect.
According to Merce
Cunningham 1951 –

Technique - is the disciplining

of one’s energies through
physical action in order to free
that energy at any desired
instant in its highest possible
physical and spiritual form
Technique- Char:
Even in the same medium artists differ
from each other

-Artist may employ different techniques

at another time for another purpose\

-its the use of technique that artist

differs from the craftsman;

-both requires technical competence

-Activity as the means-
 Medium in art
• Painting-pigment/mixed media- water color/oil paint/
pastel/
• Drawing- charcoal
• Print- Ink/Pigment
• Literature- words
• Sculpture-
wood/stone/glass/clay/cement/paper/resin/metal
• plaster of paris/ epoxy
• Ice/choco/ fruits/`
• Film- film/shot
• Photography-paper/film
• Dance-body
• Theatre- body/voice/facial expression/ gestures
• Architecture-paper,pen etc/cad
• Music- instruments/ voice
 Appropriation
• Is the use of pre-existing objects or
images with little or no transformation
applied to them.
• Adopt,borrow,re-vision,re-
evaluation,variationimprovisation,supplem
ent,etc

• Ex. Owning Narratives-

• According to Yearwood (2000,,124)
“narration is a cultural system that
elaborates basic social values and
provides social legitimacy for a culture’s
belief and world view.” So, in art making,
artworks can be the medium to infuse
good values and good stories to be
modeled. Yearwood further states that
“stories of origin seek to explain who we
are, where we came from and our
purpose in life.”
 Young (2008) posits Five(5) acts of
Cultural Appropriation.

• Object Appropriation- occurs when the

possession of a tangible work of art is
transferred from members of one culture to
members of another culture.

• Content –occurs when an artist reuse an

idea first expressed in the work of an artist
from another culture.
• Style – when an artists produce works with
stylistic elements in common with the works
of another culture.

• Motif Appropriation- it occurs when artists

are influenced by the art of a culture other
than their own without creating works in the
same style. Basic forms are appropriated.

• Subject Appropriation- occurs when

outsiders represent a subject matter that is
intended by insiders to be secret.
An artist creates something whose
only value is aesthetic. An artisan
creates something that is functional
-- bread, furniture, etc. -- but
attempts to imbue some element of
artistry or aesthetics in his

craft.https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-
between-an-artist-and-an-artisan
• The Man of Genius may at the same time be,
indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not
to be confounded. The Man of Genius, referred to
mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic
man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to
laws yet unexplored. The Artist is he who detects
and applies the law from observation of the works
of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is
he who merely applies the rules which others have
detected. There has been no man of pure Genius;
as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

Henry David Thoreau(July 12, 1817–May 6,

1862)https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/03/thoreau-on-
genius/
•
“A craftsman works with his
hands, an artisan works with
his head and his hands, and
an artist works with his heart,
his head and his hands.”

Thomas Scott April 25, 2013 at 2:03 pm

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2013/04/25/artist-artisan-craftsperson/