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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Drawing
"Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist. It is not a question of copying, but of interpreting.
Charles Baudelaire -
Painting
"It is not a question of painting life, but of bringing painting to life."
Pierre Bonnard -
Photography
"What photography reproduces ad infinitum only happens once."
Roland Barthes
Plastic photography, this term designates photographic practices that began in the 1960s, taking advantage of the emancipation of this medium, which was exhibited as an art form in its own right in museums and galleries from the 1970s onwards -
Sculpture
"Sculpture gives soul to marble."
François René de Chateaubriand
"Sculpture can be achieved through three processes: the process of taking material from a compact block, the process of shaping a soft material to create forms, and the process of making what you want to make. a
