Radio Art

Radio art is a very broad term for auditory arts that use the radio as a form of transmission.

While these types of artistic projects can range from technical uses of sound, to more social programming like interviews and audio performances, any art that seeks to use the properties of radio for its process is often called radio or radio delivered art.

In many definitions of this kind of art, the artist is not a professional radio producer , but someone who is using radio in a new way to showcase different kinds of artwork.

Certain types of interviews can be called radio art if they have a performance art component, or are otherwise delivered as an artistic product.

These types of social performances can also be called radio art if they are part of a greater set of radio broadcasts that are universally regarded as artistic.

There’s also a category of dramatic radio based art that uses the unique venue of the radio to reach an audience in a different way.

Fans of this type of art work can look to fine arts organizations in a given nation or region of the world to find more established venues for radio art. This can also be a good resource for artists who want to become a part of the radio art community.

Postmodern Art

Postmodern art is an artistic movement that typically is described as either arising after or in response to modern art . Although this term enjoys widespread usage, there is disagreement among critics about whether postmodern art actually exists as a distinct movement or whether it is simply a later phase of modern art.

Critical definitions of postmodern art differ regarding whether postmodernism, if it exists at all, is a historical condition or an intentional movement.

Thematically, works of art that are classified as postmodern often address consumer culture, popular culture, globalization, the juxtaposition of high and low art and the role and value of art in society.

Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture entitled The Fountain is sometimes cited as an early example of postmodern art. This work was first submitted to an art exhibition in New York City in 1917, where it sparked a controversy about the nature of art.

According to Duchamp, the urinal became art when he chose to call it art, meaning that an object’s status as a work of art is dependent upon context and perception.

By refusing to acknowledge distinctions between high art and lowbrow art — for example, comic book illustration or graffiti art — postmodern artists further break down class distinctions in the hierarchy of art criticism.

Postmodern art rejects the high valuation of authenticity and originality in modernism, asserting instead that there can be no more innovation or progress in art.

Video Art

Using the concept of moving pictures, video art is a medium that can either accent other forms of art or stand by itself in installations at galleries.

The designs use video presentations that can be combined with audio if that artist so desires. Although the concept of video art generally takes a similar form as television presentations or experimental film making, it is considered a distinct art form more aligned with painting and photography.

The first instances of video art came from developments into video technology during the 1960s and 1970s.

The primary distinction between video art and cinema is the fact that it does not utilize the traditional aspects of film making such as a concrete narrative or plot line.

Movies are generally designed to give the viewer some sort of emotional satisfaction, while video art may employ characteristics that widely vary depending on the intent of the artist.

Modern video art has developed into different platforms that use the full gamut of new media art technologies.

Video art is generally broken down into two different methodologies of presentation: single-channel and installation techniques.

Narrative Art

The most common instances of narrative art might be found in children's books, although the subjects of narrative art have most often been religious or historical.

Narrative artwork can depict continuous scenes, a single event, or several scenes at the same time.

Some experts feel that pictures do not do a good job of telling a story, because stories are told over time and pictures are seen all at one time. This may be an arbitrary view, however, because most people cannot absorb the contents of a complex work of art at one time.

In other words, viewing art can also take place over time, and this is especially true with some famous pieces of narrative art like the frescoes at the Arena Chapel and the Column of Trajan.

Narrative art can express a continuous narrative or just one scene.

Leonardo da Vinci‘s Last Supper, completed around 1498, is an example of a narrative painting that is monoscenic, meaning that it shows a single event.

Another example of a one-scene narrative painting is Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.

Color Field Painting

Color field painting, an abstract art movement, was part of the New York School of Art that developed in the US in the 1940s and 1950s.

Consisting of broad fields of color, this type of painting challenged viewers’ perceptions and notions about art.

Along with other artists in the New York School, they found their way to New York from Europe as well as various parts of the US and were responsible for shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York in the 1950s.

Artists who practiced color field painting focused their creative energies on color and shape without any reference to objects in the real world.

Known for applying large, solid fields of color to their canvases, they juxtaposed different colors to examine their effect on human perception and to, according to New York School philosophy, express deep universal truths.

Ad Reinhardt, on the other hand, bypassed the use of shape in his paintings entirely and preferred to paint the full canvas in one flat color.

Color field painting like other types of New York School painting was intended to reflect deep universal truths about the nature of existence.

String Art

The string or thread art crafter then attaches colored thread to a pin or nail head by wrapping it around and pulling it across to another peg on the board.

The colored yarns or threads used for string art projects must be pulled taut between the pins or nails as they are wrapped and carried to the next nail or pin. This isn't usually that difficult to do after some practice.

It sounds like aishia, TheGraham and ahain do the kind of string art that involves one piece of string and your hands -- the temporary kind, you know?

I've tried making the kinds of forms that hand string art performs with my pinned artwork, and while the "animated" ones don't work, the other ones look really pretty! "Jacob's Ladder" can be emulated in the pinned form of string art much fancier than you could make it with your hands, because I can make the rungs a rainbow of colors.

If you do only the hand form of string art or only the pinned form of string art, you should try combining the two -- this's really fun! @TheGraham - I've tried animated string art before -- pretty cool stuff.

I guess I'm a late bloomer or whatever, though, because I learned how to do string art entirely by watching videos of string artists on YouTube!


Try doing a search online for string art videos to watch how the pros do it, too -- if nothing else, you'll spend a few minutes with your jaw hanging in amazement at the kind of art some people can do with just a piece of string. And when you're done watching and want to learn to do it for yourself, the web is full of free string art instructions for anybody, from beginners to advanced people.

Unlike traditional forms that focus on how complicated the design looks, animated string art patterns tend to look simplistic: they have a frame with a shape inside, often an animal like a dog.

Cat's Cradle, if you've ever played it, is a simple kind of string art that lets two people switch a loop of string back and forth between their hands, making different patterns in the string depending on which fingers they use and which parts of the string form they pull.

It's one of those string art patterns that people aspire to master one day when they first take up string art.

Sugar Art

Sugar art is a specialty within the candy and pastry making field which involves using sugar to create complex shapes, scenes, textures, and patterns.

Displays of sugar art appear in a wide variety of settings, from wedding cakes to store windows, with sugar art being especially common during the winter holiday season.

A wide variety of techniques can be used for sugar art, including blown and pulled sugar , and all of these techniques require skills and practice.

Pulled sugar may be used to create ribbons of sugar and similar decorative items, and people may also work with sugar which has been molded into various shapes.

While some artisans work with plain sugar, most use colorings, for everything from surprisingly realistic flowers to delicate blown sugar ornaments on a holiday-themed cake. This art form is highly perishable.

Culinary schools sometimes include a display of stabilized sugar art as an end of semester project, with students working together to build a scene entirely in sugar.

Candy stores may also use sugar art as a seasonal decoration, and small sugar art decorations are also given as gifts in some cultures.