Artwork
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Artists
L'artiste a le pouvoir de réveiller la force d'agir qui sommeille dans d'autres âmes.
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Mediums
The medium refers to the material means used by the artist. The painter's medium is the paint as he uses it on the support he chooses. Modern and contemporary art have been able to multiply the experimentation of new mediums: paper and glue (association of paper and drawing), collage (association of objects with painting), assembly (of various materials in volume with possible mechanisms and the sounds or lights they produce), photography, video, installation (associating objects, paintings, sculptures or videos, etc. in a space that the public walks through), but also fire, digital printmaking, and even a computer program and computer equipment have become new mediums.
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Thèmes
Themes in art are those that are directly related to the concerns of their respective periods.
Artistic themes are therefore a perilous attempt to describe the recurring genres and themes in painting, sculpture and all the other so-called "visual" arts that are directly connected to them.
Some examples of themes are the nude, the portrait, the still life, the vanities, the landscape...
