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Examine the materials, processes, and techniques used in the making of art (course level learning objective)<\/h2>\r\n

Introduction<\/h3>\r\nIn this module will will\u00a0discuss some of the major materials, processes, and techniques used in making art.\r\n\r\nCreating a work of art is a process. When an artist chooses to work with a certain medium, or use specific techniques, those choices are some of the most defining parameters of the entire creative process.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s return to the caves at Chauvet-Pont-d\u2019Arc, where, roughly 35,000 years ago, humans transformed the space into a kind of canvas. Those prehistoric artists were using the technologies available to them\u2014charred bones or charcoal from the fire. It's surprising how the nature of the work surface figures into the end result, too. In the same way that\u00a0a painter might select\u00a0a particular\u00a0type of brush for the kind of brushstroke it will produce, the prehistoric artists made thoughtful choices about where to place specific renderings of animals so they could use the natural contours and fissures in the cave rocks to create bas-relief giving a horn, a hump, or a haunch realistic depth (Thurman).\r\n\r\nIf art is a process of seeing, imagining, and making, as Henry Sayre explains, then media and techniques give voice to the imagination (3). All media bring\u00a0specific visual effects that affect\u00a0how we interpret them as viewers. As\u00a0you work\u00a0through the content in this section, consider how the visual effects of a figure drawn by hand with charcoal are different from a figure drawn with a digital vector-based drawing program. How would an artist\u2019s drawn rendering of a scene in a courtroom be different from a photograph of the same thing?\r\n

Module Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\r\n