Art is Expressive

GART PELIMS __________________________________________

Reviewer __________________________________________
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DEFINITION OF TERMS: FUNCTIONS OF ART

Art – Process or product of deliberately
1. Physical Function – works of art
arranging elements in a way that
created to perform some service
appeals to then senses of emotions
and have physical function
Appreciation – Ability to understand the
2. Social Functions – works that
quality, importance, or worth of influences a human group that It is
something made to be seen or used in public
Creativity - The use of imagination or situations. It describes aspects of life
original ideas in the production of an shared by all as opposed to personal
kinds of experience.
artistic work
3. Personal Functions – works created
Imagination – Ability of mind to be by artists for self-expression
creative or resourceful 4. Aesthetic Functions – works that elicit
pleasure when experienced thus
Expression – Process of making known
used as decorations
one’s thoughts or feelings or look on
5. Cultural Functions – works that
someone’s face that conveys a particular
society’s cultural ideas, values, and
emotion
concerns either collective or
Taste – Ability to discern what is of good individual
quality or of a high aesthetic standard or
It may be a liking or an interest in PRINCIPLES OF ART
something 1. Harmony - Refers wholeness of the
Subject – Main idea represented or design, the pleasing arrangement of
described in a work parts and the agreements between
parts of a composition resulting in a
Content – What the artwork is about. It united whole
contains the subject matter that carries  Music – combination of
the message of the work musical notes simultaneously
played to produce music
Art is Universal  Writing – the theme or topic
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uniformity. It is also the use of
Art is Contextual differences and change to increase
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3. Rhythm – may also be referred to as
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beat is the repetition of elements
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with variation to create a feeling of
movement or visual tempo
Art in Not Nature
4. Pattern – repetition on elements
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without variation
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5. Proportion - refers to the relative size
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a design.
Art is Mimetic 6. Balance – It refers to the even
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side mirrors the other)
 b. Radial – distribution of elements 6. Value – suggests an atmosphere or
around a central point (mandala) mood
c. Asymmetrical (Informal) – two  Music – it is called the pitch
sides are not identical to each which refers to the highness or
other yet equal in visual weight lowness of a tone
7. Movement – the path our eyes  Visual arts – lightness or
follow when we look at a work or, in darkness of color
terms of choreography and theater, 7. Color – is a sensation created by
a way to convey feelings and visible wavelengths of light caught in
emotions. a prism. It is the most striking element
8. Contrast – arrangement of elements of art. It is a mixture of organic or
in a piece to create a visual interest synthetic substances called
9. Unity – when all elements combine pigments. It creates a mood or a
to make a balanced and tone.
harmonious piece
10. Emphasis – gives importance or
dominance to a unit or area or may Hue – purest form of color and the
name of the color itself
be referred to as a focal point of an
a. Neutrals – created by
image
different amounts of
11. Subordination – gives less reflected light
importance to a unit or area b. Earth tones – created by
mixing opposite colors
ELEMENTS OF ART
Value – Lightness or darkness of a
1. Space – an emptiness, void, color
distances, or areas between and a. Tint – color mixed with white
within components of a piece b. Tone – color mixed with
a. Positive – space enclosed in a gray
c. Shade – color mixed with
shape
black
b. Negative – denotes the opposite
Intensity – Brightness or dullness of
of positive space a color which creates an illusion
2. Line – extension of a point or a of depth
continuous mark made or drawn on
a surface by a moving point. ADDITIONAL NOTES:
 It is an implied path suggesting:
a. Direction: vertical, horizontal,
diagonal
b. Character: jagged, curved, series
of dots, broken lines
 Theater – script of an actor
 Dance – series of steps a dancer
makes
3. Shape – formed when the ends of a
line meet and can be a figure
separate from its surrounding area
and background but is two-
dimensional
a. Generic – angular
b. Organic – curvy
4. Form - figure separate from its
surrounding area and background
but is three-dimensional
5. Texture – surface quality of an object
a. Actual (Tactile) – actual feel of a
surface
b. Simulated (Illusory) – Illusion of a
surface’s texture
 Music – quality or style of a
composition