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LESSON 1:
5. Kant
-​ Art is purposive
Definitions and Meanings of Art
-​ defines art as “a kind of
ETYMOLOGY
representation that is purposive in
ART (French)- which means skill as a
itself and, though without an end,
result of learning or practice
nevertheless promotes the
cultivation of the mental powers for
ART (Latin)- which ability or practical
sociable communication.”
skills.

6. Jaylen H. LLI Akron

WHAT IS ART?
-​ Art as creative imagination
ART
-​ “Art is concerned with sensuous
-​ is a product of man’s inventiveness
mediums such as the mind, senses
and creativity.
which arouse inner emotions.”

1. Susanne Lander 7. Brandon Boyd

-​ Art molds our actual life of feelings,
-​ Art is everywhere
by giving form to the world, it
-​ He quoted that “art is everywhere”.
articulates human nature,
8. Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967)
sensitivity, energy, passion and
-​ “Art is Art”
mortality.
-​ the viewer's active engagement in
-​ Art is generally understood as any
the act of looking at and
activity or product done by people
experiencing “art as art.”
with a communicative or aesthetic
-​ As he declared and everything else
purpose
is everything else

2. Albert Einstein
-​ Art is an expression
Scopes, Limitations, Uses &
-​ “Art is the expression of the
Functions of Art
profoundest thoughts in the
simplest way.”
SCOPE
-​ a visual object, experience,
3. Adam Lauder
systems, methods and processes
-​ Art is a form of Communication
consciously created through an
-​ “Art is able to capture and
expression of skill or imagination.
communicate nuances, paradoxes,
unresolved or unresolvable
LIMITATIONS
tensions, and ambiguities that
-​ Everything has boundaries, even
exceed ordinary communication,”
art.
-​ At any given time, artistic
4. Aristotle
experience is somehow limited.
-​ Art as creation
-​ There are many different
-​ defines art as “the realization of a
boundaries in art:
true idea in physical form”.
-​ boundaries of style
-​ There are countless but some of the
-​ material boundaries
reasons are making our
-​ cognitive boundaries
surroundings more beautiful;
-​ aesthetic boundaries and so
creating records of a specific time,
on.
place, person or object; and
expressing and communicating
• How about “alternative solutions”?
ideas. Art is
• So, is Art “limitless”?
inspiring and stimulating for the human
mind.
Uses and Functions of Art
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➢​ Usually relates to items that can be

Art plays an important function in the used for a practical purpose
society. There is difficulty in quantifying because of their physical structure,
the functions of arts in the history of despite their artistic appeal.
human being because almost all creations ➢​ Examples are:
of man had its own unique purpose or ➔​ furniture and equipment
function. ➔​ leisure park development
➔​ gadgets and appliances
The following are some of the significant ➔​ Architecture and related
areas in society where art is playing fields of design
important functions: ➔​ and etc

1) PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL 5) HISTORICAL FUNCTION OF ART

FUNCTION ➢​ Learn about this rich and
➢​ Regardless of how social we think fundamental strand of human
we are and how dependent we are culture.
on others, we have a private and ➢​ Understand our human past and its
separate understanding of relationship to our present.
ourselves. Recording and documentation.
➢​ We think of ourselves as unique, ➢​ Learn to talk and write about works
different, exceptional in some of art from different periods and
ways, as if we have thoughts places
unique only to us and no one else.
6) CULTURAL FUNCTION OF ART
2) SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF ART ➢​ Art influences society by changing
➢​ Many works of art are deliberately opinions, instilling values and
designed to influence group translating experiences across
thinking like: space and time.
○​ Artists may try to make us ➢​ It allows people from different
laugh at the same society and different times to
phenomena. communicate with each other via
○​ Accept economic, religious, images, sounds and stories
or social ideologies. enriching cultural worth
○​ See our social situation in
ways which had not 7) RELIGIOUS FUNCTION OF ART
previously been ➢​ As a stimulus for creativity and
○​ apparent. culture, religion is the spiritual
impulse that conjoins humanity
3) PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF ART with divinity through spiritual
➢​ Art is not a pastime or a leisurely experience, ceremony, and
activity. mythology.
➢​ Some important aspects are: ➢​ Art and religion converge through
➔​ self identity ritual practice and presentation of
➔​ actualization of self sacred narrative, thereby affecting
➔​ remembering "an experience of the numinous"
➔​ hope (OTTO, 1923)
➔​ avoiding sorrow
➔​ rebalancing 8) AESTHETIC FUNCTION OF ART
➔​ self-understanding ➢​ Three crucial characteristics of
➔​ growth aesthetic experience:
➔​ appreciation a.​ fascination with an aesthetic
object (high arousal and
4) PHYSICAL FUNCTION OF ART attention)
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b.​ appraisal of the symbolic ➔​ From cave paintings to modern

reality of an object (high installations, art reflects the human
cognitive engagement) condition in a variety of ways.
c.​ a strong feeling of unity with ➔​ The human condition refers to the
the object of aesthetic characteristics, events, and situations
fascination and aesthetic that define human existence.
appraisal ➔​ It encompasses the struggles and
triumphs, joys and sorrows, and
9) INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY everything in between.
FUNCTION OF ART ➔​ Art provides a powerful lens through
➢​ Arts and Design can be classified which to explore the human condition.
as a creative industry. ➔​ It allows us to express and examine
➢​ Every industry, no matter what its our deepest emotions, fears, and
type, can play a role in economic desires.
growth. ➔​ Through art, we can confront difficult
• advertising truths about ourselves and the world
• manufacturing around us, and find solace in moments
• entertainment of beauty and transcendence
• tourism
• engineering & technology
• computer software THREE ASSUMPTIONS OF ART
• construction
• etc 1. ART IS UNIVERSAL
-​ Art immortalizes man and his
10) POLITICAL FUNCTION OF ART marvelous achievements.
➢​ The arts and politics have a strong -​ Literature and history provide us
relationship, particularly between with all the evidence about the
various kinds of art and power, timelessness and universal value of
occurring across historical epochs art and its unique contribution to
and cultures. mankind
➢​ As they respond to
contemporaneous events and 2. ART IS NOT NATURE
politics, the arts take on political as -​ It is a self assumption that art is
well as social dimensions, not nature simply because the
becoming themselves a focus of natural things around us as we
controversy and even a force of believe created by God is a work of
political as well as social change art.
-​ Though man’s art may get from the
nature or environment for
inspirations, man most of the time
deal with the art using his own
ability and skills to create one

3. ART INVOLVES EXPERIENCE

-​ All art involves experience.
-​ Experience is the actual doing of
something.
Philosophies of Art -​ The perfection of art appreciation
will never be possible without
THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND THE experiencing art.
HUMAN CONDITION -​ All art requires experience
➔​ ART has been a fundamental
expression of the human experience
throughout history. PHILOSOPHY IN ART
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➔​ is the study of concepts and nature ➢​ Good judgements in aesthetics are

of arts such as: interpretation, grounded in features of artworks
representation and expression, themselves, not just in us and our
and form. preferences.
➔​ It is closely related to aesthetics,
the philosophical study of beauty AESTHETIC QUALITIES
and taste. -​ are the qualities of an artwork that
speak to the overall feeling or
A. INTERPRETATION mood of the artwork.
-​ refers to the attribution of meaning -​ It’s when art elements and
to a work. principles come together to create
-​ A point on which people often a sense of beauty, harmony and
disagree is whether the artist’s or feel in the artwork.
author’s intention is relevant to the
interpretation of the work. AESTHETIC PERCEPTION
-​ according to form, interpretation,
Two Branches of Interpretation: and context of an artwork
★​ Intentionalism– Concerned with the
artist’s intention. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard is an
★​ Anti-intentionalism– Rejecting the oil-on-canvas
relevance of the artist’s intention. painting by Pablo Picasso, 1910

ART IS LIFE. LIFE IS ART.

B. REPRESENTATION ➔​ Art is life, no matter how fragile the
-​ It’s a type of description or times.
portrayal of the artist in the ➔​ Art is a testimony of the human
artwork which revolves around condition. It encompasses all of our
creating visceral, intimate worlds hardships, emotions, questions,
that reach far beyond mere decisions, perceptions. Love,
reproduction of the subjects in the hatred, life, death.
physical world. ➔​ Essentially the way in which we
perceive our world, every aspect of
1. Realism- Sometimes called humanity can be expressed
naturalism, in the arts is generally through art.
the attempt to represent subject
matter truthfully.

2. Impressionism- Impressionist
art were not trying to paint a reflection
of real life, but an 'impression' of what
the person, light, atmosphere, object
or the landscape looked like to them.
3. Abstraction – Art that does not
attempt to represent an accurate LESSON 2:
depiction of a visual reality but instead
use shapes, colors, forms and gestural Defining Artist and Artisan
marks to achieve its effect.
ARTIST
AESTHETIC THEORY -​ is anyone capable of
➢​ Aestheticism was a late 19th conceptualizing an emotion, idea,
century European theory based on or moment, or of more value,
the idea that art exists for the sake someone who can express
of its beauty alone. themselves using their imagination.
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-​ A person who creates art like Differences:

painting, sculpture, music, writing a.​ Artists and artisans' obvious and
and etc. sometimes delicate differences or
-​ Artists are dedicated solely to subtle distinctions lie in the quality
creative work meant for or artistic achievement together
appreciation, while artisans with function.
produce both functional and
decorative objects. DESIRE TO CREATE:
-​ Key differences include artists A. ARTIST
focusing on aesthetic value while -​ creates because of desire. His
artisans emphasize functional artifact exists purely to excite the
value. imagination, stimulate the senses
of both creator and patrons.
ARTISAN -​ Though the artwork or product
-​ A worker in a skilled trade, could be classified as “useless” but
especially one that involves making this doesn’t mean in a negative
things partly or entirely by hand sense. It simply mean that they do
and according to Merriam-Webster not have a “purposeful function”
it is a worker who practices a trade other than in the beauty itself.
or handicraft, a craftsperson hence
a skilled artisan. B. ARTISANS
-​ An artisan has both the creativity -​ create objects, not only of beauty,
and the skill to make a useful but of purpose.
functional and decorative product -​ They produce items that are useful
that includes skilled artists, or functional that usually includes a
performers, technicians, builders touch of beauty making it an extra
and much more. artistic touch.
-​ Artisans are necessary for
economic growth around the world.
-​ Today, it is no longer unusual to COMPOSITION
find women entering artisan fields -​ The structure of an artwork refers
such as welding, boiler making, to the composition of finished
building, carpentry and more artwork assembled in harmony by
necessary elements based on the
artist's critical taste, planning, and
decision making to create thereby
a composition of a masterpiece.

COMPOSITION
A.​ Elements of Art
Similarities: B.​ Principles of Design
a.​ In both worlds artists and artisans C.​ Creativity in Art
are described as the performer or
creator of tangible or intangible A. Composition: ELEMENTS OF ART
quality or artistic products or -​ The structure of an artwork refers
outcomes. to the composition of finished
b.​ Both are also innovative in their artwork assembled in harmony by
use of imagination powered by necessary elements based on
creativity. artist’s critical taste, planning, and
c.​ Both artists and artisans are also decision making to create thereby
seen as legitimate inventors, a composition of a master piece.
creators and composers in their
own right. 1. LINE
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-​ can be vertical, diagonal, Characteristics of Color:

horizontal, and even curved. ❖​ Hue – the color itself.
-​ It can be any width, size, shape, ❖​ Value – dark or light quality of
position, direction, interval, or color.
density. ❖​ Intensity – brightness or
saturation of color
2. SHAPE
Basic Categories of Color:
-​ If a line were to curve around and
1.​ Primary – yellow, red, and blue.
eventually cross itself, the enclosed
2.​ Secondary – mixture of two
area is called a shape.
primary colors makes orange,
-​ Shapes can either be in irregular or
purple, and green.
regular geometric form
3.​ Intermediate – mixture of one
primary and secondary color
3. FORM
makes blue-green, yellow-green,
-​ connotes something that is
yellow-orange, red-orange,
three-dimensional having length,
red-violet, and blue violet.
width, and height.
-​ A form can be geometric or
6. SPACE
organic
-​ refers to the distance or area
-​ and is also used to describe the
between, around, above, below, or
physical nature of the artwork not
within things.
only in paintings but in architecture
-​ Negative space in a painting is
and sculpture as well.
any volume or air that is not
occupied by a solid form
4. VALUE
-​ Positive space is any space in a
-​ The light or dark quality of a color.
painting that is filled with
-​ Value is best seen in black and
something, such as lines, colors,
white photography.
shapes or designs.
❖​ When black is added to a
color the value of that color Picture Plane within a Space
is darkened. ●​ FOREGROUND– nearest to the
❖​ When white is added to a viewer
color the value is lightened ●​ MIDDLE GROUND – layer next to
or tinted. foreground
●​ BACKGROUND– layer after the
middle ground
Variance in Value: 7. TEXTURE
★​ CHIAROSCURO– balance of light -​ it describes the feel of surfaces like
and shadow. smooth, rough, soft, hard, cold,
★​ SFUMATO– gradual blending of warm, etc.
light and shadow. -​ For example the optical sensation
★​ CARAVAGGIO– heavy shadow of the surface of the wood and how
against light. it feels even without touching it.

5. COLOR 8. TIME & MOTION

-​ is often one of the most exciting -​ is employed in both static and in
elements in art. time-based mediums and can show
-​ In both figurative and abstract a direct action or the intended path
painting, color can be used for its for the viewer's eye to follow
decorative beauty, to create mood through a piece.
and to express or arouse an -​ Techniques such as scale and
emotion. proportion are used to create the
-​ In nature and in art, color has a feeling of motion or the passing of
profound effect on the viewer. time in static visual artwork.
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-​ Contrast can be used to create

B. Composition: PRINCIPLES OF variety, visual interest, and drama
DESIGN in an artwork.
-​ When you look at a piece of art
work, the first thing you will notice 5. PATTERN
is the composition of the master -​ can have multiple meanings and
piece. elements in design.
-​ The principles of design is an -​ Repetition focuses on the same
artistic arrangement of the desired object being repeated.
composition according to the -​ Patterns are made up from
following: different components which are
then repeated in the same way
1. BALANCE throughout the design.
-​ in design covers how the visual
weight of elements are balanced 6. MOVEMENT
with each other on both sides of a -​ is the path the viewer's eye takes
design to create cohesiveness, through the work of art, often to
completion, and satisfaction. focal areas.
-​ To achieve optimal balance, your -​ Such movement can be directed
composition should be balanced along lines, edges, shape, and color
vertically, horizontally, diagonally, within the work of art.
or background versus foreground. -​ The main goal is for the artist is to
direct the viewer's eye movement
2. UNITY through an entire piece to rest on
-​ is the principle of design that the focus of interest
unifies all other principles within a
piece of work, allowing each 7. RHYTHM
individual element to coexist with -​ suggests movement or action.
one another to form an -​ Rhythm is usually achieved through
aesthetically pleasing design. repetition of lines, shapes, colors,
and more.
-​ It creates a visual tempo in
artworks and provides a path for
the viewer's eye to follow.
3. EMPHASIS -​ Rhythms help to guide the viewer's
-​ is a strategy that aims to draw the eye around a piece rather than
viewer's attention to a specific allowing the eye to settle on a
design element. particular focal point
-​ That could be to an area of
content, to an event, to an image,
to a link, or to a button, etc. B. Composition: CREATIVITY IN ART
-​ The aim is to create a focal point in -​ Art and creativity are two
the design, an eye-catching part different concepts. Yes, they are
that stands out, distinct from the correlated, but one does not imply
rest of the design elements. the other at least, not
automatically, or one is less than
4. CONTRAST the other in value.
-​ refers to the arrangement of -​ The skill of being creative develops
opposite elements and effects. curiosity and, along with it, brings
-​ For example, light and dark colors, new opportunities forward.
smooth and rough textures, large -​ Being creative means seeking
and small shapes. ways to change the normal and
think out of the box. Linking
creativity with persistence can
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result in art, which is the result of increase their chances of success in

creativity and constant effort whichever they are doing.
combined
●​ MOTIVATION has to be The Creative Process:
another element in the process STEP 1: Preparing for creation
of creation for art to result. -​ This does not mean waiting for the
●​ There cannot be art without right time to come to take action,
creativity, but creativity can instead preparing yourself for a
exist without art. long ride and understanding where
your motivation comes from.
CREATIVITY -​ It means that you are taking in the
-​ by means of envisioning ideas is arguments for which you are
likely a choice between to create a starting the process and what
new one and or recreate and benefits this creative process will
improve the present ideas. bring to you.

How to be a Creative Artist?: STEP 2: Incubating selected ideas

1.​ Opened to play. -​ This is time to brainstorm ideas and
2.​ Artist’s emotion. see what you want to create.
3.​ A constant desire to create. -​ What are the best ideas you came
up with, and why do you think that
1. OPENED TO PLAY they are good?
-​ Artists will be the explorer who -​ But most importantly, how will you
never stops. They will not be taken act on them?
back by previous discoveries or
preconceived notions. STEP 3: Implementing chosen ideas
-​ Creative artists will succeed -​ This is the time for the nitty gritty
because they are continuously of production, the actual making,
open to new possibilities, won’t see everything between production
failure as a drawback but rather as and creating the final master copy
a means of achieving greatness by or outputs
becoming aware of what could
improve.
Qualities of Creative People
2. ARTIST’S EMOTION ENERGETIC- creative people are
-​ We all know that artists, whether energetic physically and mentally utilizing
self-taught or otherwise, are it to conceptualize ideas.
creative, emotional, and often
sensitive people. INTELLIGENT– creative people are
-​ Most creative individuals share in intelligent. Though a high level of IQ is a
common with the artist’s success plus, most people are intelligent enough in
and it depends on the degree to creative thinking and smart to create new
which they develops these traits ideas.

3. A CONSTANT DESIRE TO CREATE DISCIPLINED- creativity happens

-​ Creative people are constantly unexpectedly, so whenever an artist is
engaging in creating something under any circumstances, he or she is
new. ready to somehow make a note or record
-​ They don’t wait for something to the ideas in anyway possible
happen or for the-right-moment to
pass by.
-​ They are creating circumstances COMPOSITION is one of the most
for the creation and, therefore,
important skills for any one to learn about
art making. It’s all about how to decide
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what to include and exclude, and how to -​ This is when you’re able to
arrange it all to create functional and generate new ideas from scratch
beautiful objects for our own benefits. and can be guided or unguided.
-​ This is what most writers and
“The true work of art is but a shadow of artists are good at.
the divine perfection.” -​ We usually have a moment of
-​ Michelangelo inspiration and go off to explore
wherever the fantasy may take us.
4. EMPATHY:
-​ This is a capacity that human
LESSON 3: PHYSICAL & NON beings must mentally detach from
PHYSICAL CONSTRUCT OF ART ourselves and experience what
another person is experiencing
Imagination & Expression of Arts from their point of view.
-​ It allows us to take an imaginative
IMAGINATION stroll in someone else’s shoes.
-​ Visualizing the unseen or
impossible things or envisioning 5. STRATEGIC IMAGINATION:
ideas that are not present in reality -​ It’s the ability to spot opportunities
or wanting it to happen or exist. and visualize what might happen if
-​ Imagination is very much you were to take them.
associated with creativity since it -​ People who have an excellent
is through imagination where strategic imagination will have a
ideas, feelings or images are realistic understanding of their own
initially put together in the artist’s skills, and be able to spot
mind. opportunities to develop.
-​ The imagination of the artist may
be in the form of imaging or 6. EMOTIONAL IMAGINATION:
picturing, feeling, or thinking -​ The artists must know how to
what the work of art will become. create or project fear, how to
-​ The artists may also use their create sadness, laughter and how
imagination on the possible the artists possess the ability to
alternatives to what they have play on those emotions to
finished at every step of the generate form and structure that
process. plays into this facet of the
audience's mindsets.
8 SUBSEQUENT IMAGINATIONS IN
ART 7. DREAMS:
1. EFFECTUATED IMAGINATION: -​ These are an unconscious form of
-​ It allows the artists to synthesize imagination that we do when we’re
existing ideas together from asleep.
existing information. -​ Scientists are still deciding what
these crazy little night visions are
2. INTELLECTUAL/CONSTRUCTIVE all about, but for those of us that
IMAGINATION: dream, it can be a fun and
-​ The artist can work from an sometimes scary way to access our
existing plan or a definite idea and imagination and interpret them in
is guided towards a distinct an art form.
purpose.
-​ Intellectual imagination is a very 8. MEMORY RECONSTRUCTION:
conscious and deliberate process. -​ When we retrieve our memories of
people, objects, and events we use
3. IMAGINATIVE FANTASY: our imagination to regenerate the
images.
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-​ MEMORIES: are subconscious -​ Also, it asks viewers to relate

stored bits of information dragged symbols and other abstract
into our conscious brain and our connections together to interpret a
imagination often fills the gaps meaning from imagery.
where memory hasn’t been curated
properly. 4) EXPRESSION OF CHARACTER:
NATURE OF THINGS
"Imagination is more important than -​ Any moral message in the work
knowledge. “– Einstein should not, therefore, affect the
overall value of the artwork in its
aesthetic quality, either positively
Expression in Art or negatively.
EXPRESSION -​ Artist’s and patrons of the arts also
-​ Individual expression of art, it want to protect their creation from
reflects the artist’s personal censorship.
thoughts, ideas, style, and feelings. -​ If an artwork is judged only on the
basis of its aesthetic qualities, it
Six Areas of Expression should not be condemned for its
➔​ Art is an expression made visible by moral message.
a form or nonphysical structure. Art
as a piece is an expression of the 5) EXPRESSION OF BELIEFS AND
artist and the artist is an expresser IDEAS: PHILOSOPHICAL
to convey ideas or create meaning. INTERPRETATION
-​ In many cultures, art is used in
1) EXPRESSION OF LIFE: HUMAN religion, spiritual or magical rituals,
EXPERIENCE performances and dances as a
-​ Art can be used as a way to decoration or symbol of a god or
connect with ourselves and the other divine quality.
audience. -​ Anthropologists however know that
-​ Expression holds its power and this expression often serves a
ability to inspire, create joy, and purpose at the level of meaning
provoke thought. within a particular culture or social
-​ Art is an expression of the human norms.
experience, and its value lies in its
ability to bring people together 6) EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS:
and to evoke emotion. NATURAL RELEASE OR REACTIONS
-​ Expression of feelings is often
2) EXPRESSION OF MIND: REFLECTION defined as a showing of emotion
OF THOUGHTS that comes from the inner world.
-​ Art is an expression of our -​ Expression is the natural or
thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and intentional reaction in which
desires, but it is even more emotional processes are made and
personal than that: it's about reflected as a concrete
sharing the way we experience the phenomenon.
world, which for many is an
extension of personality. Methods of Presenting Subjects
In general, SUBJECT may be thought of
3) COMMUNICATION: INTERPRETING as the ‘what’ in a piece of art such as the
IMAGERY topic, focus, and image. The most
-​ Art teaches communication by common subjects of art include:
providing another way of
portraying feelings, ideas, and 1) PORTRAITURE- specifically referring to
arguments to an audience besides the depiction of human male and female.
words.
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‘Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and 7) MYTHOLOGICAL– it represents

Hummingbird’ is a 1940 painting by supernatural events or fantasy depiction
Mexican painter FRIDA KAHLO. of people, places, and objects.

2) STILL-LIFE- it represents a piece that Greek sculpture of

features an arrangement of inanimate Ocean god, named
objects as its subject. ‘Marforio’ or
‘Marphurius’,
‘Still Life with a located in Rome,
Turkey Pie’ is a 1627 Italy. Classic
painting by the Dutch mythology in art.
painter PIETER
CLAESZ. 8) ABSTRACTION– Art that has no real
subjects or representation is an abstract,
3) LANDSCAPE– is strictly referring to a total departure from reality.
land and water sceneries and forms.
SEASCAPE and CITYSCAPE are also an White Center (Yellow, Pink and
acceptable term in specifying particular Lavender on Rose) – is an abstract
sceneries. painting by MARK ROTHKO completed
in 1950.
‘The Bridge at Narni’ is an
1826 painting of the Ponte ❖​ In that selection, ABSTRACTION is
d'Augusto at Narni by categorized as non-objective art or
French artist JEAN non-representational art while the
BAPTISTE-CAMILLE rest is categorized as objective art
COROT. or representational art.

4) FLORA AND FAUNA– artworks Mediums, Themes & Focal Points

representing daily life. MEDIUM
-​ refers to the art materials and tools
‘The Morning in a Pine and other supplies while technique
Forest’ is a painting by refers to how the desired materials
Russian artists IVAN are used or applied to make an art
SHISHKIN and piece.
KONSTANTIN SAVITSKY, -​ MEDIUM in art is the material that
(1889). artists use to create their art.
-​ One piece of art can be made of
5) COUNTRY LIFE– artworks representing one medium or could be made by
daily life activities. several media if several mediums is
applied to it.
‘The Fall of Icarus’ -​ The more you know about the
portraying life by the properties of various mediums, the
river and abundant wider your artistic horizons are.
land to farm by PIETER
BRUEGEL, (1560).

6) RELIGIOUS– It represents events

objects and persons related to religious
beliefs and practices.

`The Transfiguration` is the last COMMON MEDIUMS IN MAKING AN

painting by the Italian High
ART:
Renaissance master RAPHAEL, (1516).
A. WATERCOLORS
-​ They are unpredictable.
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-​ It is hard to change the way it is your preferences, ideas, and creative

going to disperse once it is applied objectives. Try them all and choose the
on the paper. one you like most.
-​ Once you master the skill and the
courage, you will realize that ❖​ TECHNIQUE, style, your look,
watercolors are one fun art whatever you want to call it is as
medium in making art. individual as your signature and your
art skill should be your identity.
B. PASTELS Learning the fundamentals is simple to
-​ Chalk pastels are great for creating do, but like all art, they require a lot of
textures, blending colors, and practice to master.
layering.
-​ This medium in art is known as ❖​ DRAWING is one of the most basic
LUMINOUS and TENDER. ways to exercise your creativity in
-​ The powder used for pastel pencils executing technique. Whether you’re
and chalks is a PIGMENT itself, using a pencil, pen, crayon, or even
that is why the colors are deep, and your fingers, the skills you gain from
the effect is stunning. the activity translate to a bevy of
different media. But once you do, you’ll
C. INK have the ability to create images you’re
-​ is a convenient and affordable art truly proud of.
medium.
-​ It comes in the form of a graphic, ❖​ To learn how to handle a particular
fountain, drawing, reed, and medium takes a few hours of practice.
drafting pens or simply ballpoint One needs to open their mind, heart,
pens. and emotions to feel what is right. Let
-​ Ink goes as paint in small bottles intuition take over, listen to their gut, let
too. It can be used for drawing as your hand and fingers do the work and
well as calligraphy and writing. surprisingly, technique will come.

D. PENCILS
-​ colored pencils are not for kids
alone. MEDIUMS and TECHNIQUE are
-​ There is no such thing as a essentials in creating art. After every art
`childish` medium because is done, it should meet the following
everything depends on how you measurement:
use it. 1.​ GENUINENESS
-​ Pencil artwork has deep, and 2.​ AESTHETIC QUALITY
luminescent effect aside from it is 3.​ MASTERY OF SKILL
convenient to use and affordable
art medium.

E. MIXED MEDIA
-​ the incorporation of two or all
media of your choice together in a
unique way.
-​ This technique is enjoyable
because it allows you to THEMES AND FOCAL POINTS
experiment and can take numerous SUBJECT MATTER
forms, and there are no limits for -​ is what the work is actually “about”
your imagination to explore. while the theme defines the “story”
behind a work in a particular genre or
❖​ Again, there is NO such thing as ‘the style, or with a particular motif or look.
best medium.’ Everything depends on Examples are as follows:
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➔​ A “FOCAL POINT” is that area of

a picture that attracts the eye.
➔​ The center of interest acts as an Five Purposes for Visual Art
“attention getter.” It commands 1) CEREMONIAL ART
the viewer's curiosity or mental ➢​ It is made to commemorate or
concentration, and it's the part of celebrate something important in
the picture that we find naturally the culture in ritual or worship or in
fascinating and want to know more personal life.
about. ➢​ Public art that is ceremonial in
nature includes statues of events or
FOCAL POINT TECHNIQUE people, often of historical
-​ is the area or areas within a scene relevance.
that leads to the visual attention of ➢​ The People Power Monument and
the viewers. In most cases, the other structures and sculptural
main subject of the art is also the objects for example symbolizes
focal point of the art. freedom or serves as a landmark
for the city of Dasmariñas.
5 COMMON FOCAL POINTS
1.​ UNUSUAL
2.​ CONTRAST
3.​ PLACEMENT
4.​ ISOLATION
5.​ CONVERGENCE
2) ART CREATED FOR ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION
LESSON 4: THE ARTS MEDIA ➢​ Focuses on the artist most of all
self-expression of his/her personal,
The Visual Arts
internal emotions, feelings,
experiences, or ideas.
VISUAL ARTS
➢​ This type of art is called “THE
-​ are arts that meet the eye and
MASTERS OF AUGUSTA” - RICK
evoke an emotion through an
RUSH, 1997.
expression of skill and imagination.
➢​ This may include abstract
-​ They include the most ancient
expression or nonobjective art.
forms, such as painting and
​
drawing, and the arts that were
born thanks to the development of
3) NARRATIVE ART
technology, like sculpture, ➢​ Tell stories or make statements.
architecture, printmaking, ➢​ Some communities commissioned
photography, film making, and narrative murals for buildings (wide
installation art. walls for example) to depict local
historical or other documental
narratives.
Creating Visual Arts
In general, there are five “stages” in the
creative process but not necessarily
4) FUNCTIONAL ART
present in every output -​ Seeks to beautify objects that are
neither in a certain order whenever useful in everyday life.
applied in one project. These five stages -​ Many of the objects we use –
are as follows: including pottery, quilts, baskets,
1.​ INSPIRATION furniture (serve a useful purpose)
2.​ PERCOLATION but are also designed for
3.​ PREPARATION Southwest Indian Pottery
4.​ CREATION decorated in a way that is
5.​ REFLECTION artistically pleasing.
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5) PERSUASIVE ARTWORKS
-​ promotes ideas, philosophies, or
products also marketing,
advertising, propaganda, and
visual messages of ideology fall
into this category.

Three Major Visual Art Forms