ConArts - Mediums and Techniques

Uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass

Uses the camera to record the outside world

Uses pigments on a usually flat ground such as a canvas

Include painting, drawing, graphics, stage and production design

Prints and paintings are further classified as “two dimensional” arts because they include the surface or ground.

Based on stories such as drama, novel, fiction, nonfiction, music and dance.

Uses words

Uses ink printed or transferred on a surface that is in keeping with a duplicating or reproducing process

Uses sounds and instruments including the human voice

Uses the body and its movements

Uses the cinematographic camera to record and put together production design, sound engineering, performance, screenplay

Architecture has the added value of time since we move into the structures.

Dance is often accompanied by music, but there are dances that do not rely on musical accompaniment to be realized.

Have immediate use for everyday and business life such as design, architecture and furniture

Defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made

Are staged and performed including drama, performing arts, music and dance

Occupy space and change in its meaning and function depending on their categories including architecture and sculptures

Buildings are also called “three dimensional” arts because like sculpture, they occupy space and have volume

Uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone, concrete and various building materials

Sculptures fall within the category of “three dimensional” arts because they occupy space and have volume.

While paintings are unique and one-of-a-kind, prints can be reproduced in several pre-determined editions

Integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design, performance elements, and script

Manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect