Art media

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 142. Chapters: Oil painting, Printmaking, Encaustic painting, Video art, New materials in 20th century art, Wood as a medium, Found art, Digital art, Artistamp, Comics, Visual arts, Film, Conceptual art, Pysanka, Penjing, Fulldome, Garden design, Artist's book, Mail art, Sandpainting, Aquascaping, Studio glass, Rock art, Balloon modelling, Stone carving, Robotic art, Digital painting, Studio pottery, Scrimshaw, Pietra dura, Video painting, Sand art and play, Motion comic, List of artistic media, Tradigital art, Decorative arts, Work of art, Art jewelry, Light art, Assemblage, Music visualization, Crop art, Post-convergent, Graphic arts, Scratch video, Megalithic art, Otus the Head Cat, Video installation, Sticker art, Cartoon Watch, Fax art, Video sculpture, Speed painting, Mixed media, Nanoart, Gourd art, Art medallions, Altered book, Virtual art, Factory glass, Via Art, Roden Crater, String art, Polaroid transfer, Sand animation, Flannelgraph, Art diary, Rickshaw art, Integrated arts, Label 228, Naked mail, Mechanic arts, Art book, Artists' CD-ROM, Serial imagery, Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, Graphic kit. Excerpt: A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating - or indoctrinating - citizens. The visual elements of cinema give motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue into the language of the viewer. Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. When these images are shown rapidly in succession, a viewer has the illusion that motion is occurring. The viewer cannot see the flickering between frames due to an effect known as persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. Viewers perceive motion due to a psychological effect called beta movement. The origin of the name "film" comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photo-play and flick. A common name for film in the United States is movie, while in Europe the term film is preferred. Additional terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the cinema and the movies. A clip from the Charlie Chaplin silent film The Bond (1918)Preceding film by thousands of years, plays and dances had elements common to film: scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, and scores. Much termin