ART APPRECIATION #2

FOUR COMMON ESSENTIALS OF ART

1. Art has to be man made

2. Art should be creative, not imitative

3. Art must benefit and satisfy man

4. Art is expressed through a certain medium

SUBJECT OF ART

• The matter to be described or to be portrayed by the artists

• Refers to:

  Event (everyday life, history, legends)

  Dream and Fantasy

  Nature

  Object

  Person

  Scene

TWO KINDS OF ART AS TO SUBJECT

1. Objective Art (Representational)

2. Nom-Objective (Non-Representational)

OBJECTIVE ART

• Representational

• Represents description, stories, or references to identifiable objects or symbols

NON-OBJECTIVE ART

• Non-Representational

• Does not represent any concrete object or symbol

WAYS OF REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT

• Realism

• Abstraction

• Distortion

REALISM

• Refers to the movement or style of representing familiar things as they replicates reality

• Used to describe artworks painted in realistic photographic way

ABSTRACTION

• Refers to art that does not attempt to represent external reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors and textures

DISTORTION

• Refers to the art of twisting, stretching or deforming the natural shape of the object

ELEMENTS OF ART

1. Color

2. Lines

3. Shapes

4. Texture

5. Value

COLOR

• Gives quality to the pictorial field and has the ability to elevate sensation of pleasure

• Creates mood and symbolizes ideas as well as expression of personal emotion

LINE

• Used by the artist to imitate or to represent objects and figure on the flat surface

• Depicts the feeling and thoughts of the artist

SHAPES

• Used to represent the subjects of the art

• The subject can be represented through a natural, abstract and non-objective shape

TEXTURE

• Defines the tactile quality of the surface of an object

• Expresses a sensuous and decorative quality and creates a spatial depth

VALUE

• Depicts the tonal relationship between light and dark areas of painting

MEDIUM OF ART: VISUAL ART

1. Acrylic

2. Drawing

3. Encaustic

4. Engraving

5. Etching

6. Fresco

7. Intaglio

8. Mosaic

9. Painting

10. Printmaking

11. Stained Glass

12. Tempera

13. Watercolor

ACRYLIC

• A medium in painting which uses paints

DRAWING

• Refers to the initial or fundamental sketch of painting

ENCAUSTIC

• Refers to the application of mixture of hot bee wax, resin and ground pigment to any porous surface followed by heat application

ENGRAVING

• Refers to the process of decorating metal artwork with the use of burin

ETCHING

• The process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal

FRESCO

• Refers to the application of earth pigments mixing with water in a plaster wall

INTAGLIO

• Refers to scratch, engrave, or etch into metal plate

MOSAIC

• Refers to the wall or floor decoration made of small cube or irregular cut pieces of colored stone or glass

PAINTING

• Refers to the process of applying pigment (colors) on the smooth surface (paper, cloth, canvas, wood, plaster)

PRINTMAKING

• Refers to the graphic image that results from duplicating process

STAINED GLASS

• Refers to window decoration made of irregular cut pieces of colored glass

TEMPERA

• Refers to the application of a mixture of egg yolk and white and earth and mineral pigment

WATERCOLOR

• A versatile medium that involves using pigments mixed with water

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Balance

• Emphasis and subordination

• Harmony

• Proportion

• Rhythm

• Variation

BALANCE

The gravitational equilibrium in visual arts which depicts the feeling of equality in weight, attention of the various elements

SYMMETRICAL (Formal Balance)

• Identical or similar to the other (mirrored)

• Can be used to create a feeling of order, stability, calmness and serenity within art composition

RADIAL BALANCE

• Elements of artwork are arranged in a circular pattern around a central point

• Used to create a feeling of order and harmony

ASYMMETRICAL (Occult or Felt Balance)

• No formal balance on either side of the artwork but the subjects are place in parallel position

• Can be used to create a feeling of vibrancy and movement

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC BALANCE

• Or mosaic balance (less common)

• Has equal weight given to many art elements at once but they aren’t in a perfectly symmetrical pattern

• Finds harmony in repetition

• Also called as an all-over balance

EMPHASIS AND SUBORDINATION

• Reflects between the more important and less important in artworks

• Concerned in stressing the proper important to the parts and to the whole of artworks

HARMONY

• All parts of visual image are related and complement with each other

• There is an agreement between the parts of a composition which result in unity

PROPORTION

• Means the ratio of the part to another and of the whole that can be expressed in size, number and position

• A comparative harmonious relationship between two or more elements in a composition with respect to size, color, quantity, degree, setting, etc.

RHYTHM

• Means repetition or continuance flow of regular visual units

• Refers to the movement achieve through the repetition of the regular visual unit

VARIATION

• Means elements and subjects of artworks contrast with or slightly different from others which prevent monotony or uniformity