Extra-regional Impact: Visual Arts, Islam and the Information Age : Visual Arts 01: Drawing & Painting

Visual Arts 1/3: Drawing & Painting

Defining drawing & painting as visual arts
History of drawing and painting in the Caribbean
Caribbean art and artists

Visual Arts refers to art forms and works produced by drawing, painting, sculpting, design & crafts, photography, video, literature and theatre. These are classed as performing, conceptual, or textile arts.

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Defining drawing and paint as an aspect of visual arts

Drawing is a form of visual art in which various drawing instruments, such as graphite or ink, are used to mark paper or other two-dimensional medium.

Example drawing instruments

Tools used for drawing:

graphite pencils
pens & ink
inked/ pigmented brushes
wax colour pencils
crayons
charcoal
chalk
pastels

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or other similar mediums onto a solid support base.

Application is applied to the base with the use of tools such as:

brushes
palette knives
sponges
airbrushes

History of drawing & painting in the Caribbean

The roots of the history of painting and drawing in the Caribbean are clearly multicultural. The colonizers passed on their pictorial styles to the creators of art in the Caribbean while others arose from the juncture of slavery and the relations between the colonizers and the mixture of races. Today, much of the region’s early artistic output serves as a historical document that enables a sketch of the community and its culture.