"Medium" in the archive of the Metropolitan Museum "Medium"

Medium ―Explore through the MET Collection

On the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the collection of archites is released free of the place. Various archives are left not only for Western art works but also for Oriental art, and Pigment Article is very helpful.

In addition to the work titles, as well as detailed search in the era and regions, please try to access them as well as research and a little breath.

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org

 

What do you think of from the word "Medium" sometimes? There are various things on this site, the mediums that often appear, oil and water.

(Details for detailsPigment Director Iwaizumi's overview of the Medium and its characteristics Vol.1Please also see)

For example, there are so many kinds of water -based glue, but how many do you know?

 

1. Fresco (fresco painting)

2. Egg Medium (Tempera painting)

3. Cazin Medium (Casein paint)

4. Silence solution (Japanese painting / ink)

5. Arabian Medium (Transparent Watercolor Paints / Gash)

6. Acrylic emulsion (acrylic paint)

7. Water -based alkido emulsion (Aquila)

 

You may know the glue used in Japanese paintings, watercolor paints, acrylic paint, and Akila used in elementary school drawing hours, but 1-3 Mediums are not very familiar. 。

This time, let's appreciate some works from the medium perspective while using the Archive of the Metropolitan Museum.

 

 

Before the top -coated plaster on the wall dries, the fresco painted with the pigment dissolved in water is one of the typical mural techniques. In addition, the pigment is absorbed by the wall and the surface of the mural is covered with a transparent thin membrane when drying, so it is excellent in preservation.

If you are familiar with these frescoes, you will find Pompei's murals.

 

《Cubiculum (Bedroom) From the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale》

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247017

 

Despite the work from the BC, it's surprising that it has also enabled an Ilusjonistic space reminiscent of Trump Louille. It is said that the fresco has continued to develop and has flourished in Italy in the 14th and 16th centuries.

 

 

Next is Tempera paint. It is a tempera picture that has been introduced several times in our lab workshop. This paint, which mixes eggs (egg yolk, egg white, and whole eggs) as an exhibition color material for the pigment, is a Medium with a good glossy and glittering color, and the paint grows good.

 

《The Annunciation》 (Ca. 1485-92) BotticeLLI

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459016

 

It can be said that the characteristics of Tempera paint were indispensable in order to draw so detailed on a size board that is not large, 19.1 x 31.4 cm. In addition, gold leaf was used as an expression of light. Since the 15th century, it has been treated as classical techniques due to the rise of oil paint, but it is one of the mediums that still have a hidden charm.

 

 

The last thing to introduce is Casin Medium with Casin paint. This is made by coagulating the gland -shaped substance collected from the milk protein by acid and making it harder to dissolve in water. Of course, this casein has been used for a long time, but some writers have used this for modern art works. I'm Mark Rosco, an abstract painting giant.

 

《Untitled》 (1964) Mark Rothko

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486665

 

He used Cazin and acrylic paint in this work, and other works produced works with mixed techniques that use tempella paint. Bridget Riley, an optical artist's monument, is one of the writers who explored the medical skin, such as using a milk -based adhesive and synthetic resin for his work.

 

 

The water -based mediums that could not be taken up in this article also have a unique texture. "Seeing and knowing" these characteristics will not only be a pine guide for artistic appreciation, but also for those who are producing works, it will be a high -quality knowledge.

 

This time, Pigment Lab Workshop is also a professor at the Kyoto University of Arts University, and produces works in a style that incorporates Western painting materials as a which is the axis of Western painting materials. We will hold the 1st of the Medium (combined material) from the paint!

 

The Medium that was not handled here is a workshop that explains sharp and easy to understand even for beginners with a unique perspective of Professor Aoki. If you like art or an artist who is actually producing, please take the course.

 

 

Course information

 

 

[Special lectures] Enogen's story.

Focus on the medium (binding material) rather than paint!

1st water -based Medium (synthetic resin)

 

Lecture by Yoshiaki Aoki

2019/06/16 (Sun)

13:00 - 16:00

 

Reference book

Tomoyuki Masuda, Kotasaki, edited (2005), Iwanami Western Language Art Dictionary, Iwanami Shoten (Tokyo)

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大矢 享

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大矢 享

1989年東京生まれ。 日本大学大学院芸術学研究科造形芸術専攻博士前期課程修了。 PIGMENTにて画材エキスパートとして携わりながら、平面作品を中心にアーティスト活動中。

1989年東京生まれ。 日本大学大学院芸術学研究科造形芸術専攻博士前期課程修了。 PIGMENTにて画材エキスパートとして携わりながら、平面作品を中心にアーティスト活動中。