Module 1
Module 1
Module 1
ARTS Appreciation
The humanities are the sum of the best that was thought and said and artistically rendered.
- Paul Obler
The humanities include literature, philosophy,religion, the arts, and all of man’s varied efforts to
understand and improve his own experience.
- James Bugental
WHAT IS ART?
May refer to any skill or mastery
May also refer to a process or a product of creative skill.
As a process – it is the arrangement of aesthetic elements in an appealing and interesting
manner.
As a product - it includes human creation, different activities and forms of expression
such as Painting , sculpture, architecture, music, literature, dance and theater.
Art is imitation – a representation of reality.
Art is expression – expresses the feelings and ideas shared by all individuals regardless
of culture. It also expresses the way of life of the creators of the product.
Because art expresses the sentiments and temper of the artist as well as the times, it also
communicates.
THE FUNCTIONS OF ART
Personal Functions – satisfying individual needs for personal expression.
Social Functions – social needs for display, celebration and communication
Physical Function – our physical needs for utilitarian objects and structures.
COMPOSITION OF ART
Subject: What is it about?
Content: what is expressed /what is being communicated?
Medium: What is it made of
Form: In what shape is the meaning projected?
Technique: How is it done?
II Elements and Organization of Visual Arts
Visual Arts
Refers to artworks perceived by seeing which are shown in 2-3 dimensional forms
reflecting the cultural, social and religious temper of the era.
Designs are influenced by the demands from nature, man and the medium of materials
available
A Painting
The art of putting together the elements of Art on canvas, wood, plastic, metal paper and
glass.
B. Sculpture
* The art of adding or subtracting to any materials to form a new design, object, project or
concept.
C. Architecture
* The art of designing and constructing buildings and structure to answer functional demands of
man.
B. Value
* Relative degree of lightness and darkness of colors that gives impression of solidity,
distance and depth illusion.
* Tints are values above normal while shades are values below normal
Kinds of Values maybe:
Light
Medium
Dark
* Tertiary Colors
* Red violet
* Blue violet
* Red Orange
* Yellow Orange
* Blue Green
* Yellow Green
Color Harmonies
Related
Monochromatic
*One color tint with shades or values.
* Analogous
* 3-4 neighboring colors – possesses one color in all mixtures
* Contrasting – found to be opposite they contrast each other strongly
* Complimentary – any 2 opposite colors
* Split – any 3 colors with Y guide
* Double – any 3 opposite colors
* Double Split – any 6 colors with 2 Y guide
* Triad – 3 colors forming equilateral triangle in the color chart
* Intensity – dullness and brightness of color-gives color strength
* full intensity
* 2/3 intensity
* 2.3 neutral
* Neutral
Neutral colors: the art of balancing colors-white, black, silver, brown cream and bronze,
gold copper and peach
Properties of colors
Hue – identify or the names of colors
* Cool – dominance of blue
*Warm – dominance of red and yellow
* Value – lightness or darkness of color
* Tints are values above normal while
* Shades are values below normal\
F Texture
Deals more directly with the sense of touch
Best appreciated when felt by hands.
The surface characteristics of an object – smooth, glossy, shiny or dull, fine or coarse,
plain or irregular, dirty or dusty, rough etc.
G. Volume
* The solidity of an object which enable us to know its thickness, length and height.
H Perspective
The position of an object in space.
This refers to the location and distance upon the appearance of an object by which the eye
judges spatial relationships.
Foreshortening- linear perspective applied to human figure.
Linear perspective or One point perspective- a representation of distance by means of
converging lines – point of origin maybe at the middle, left or right, top or bottom.
Two point perspective – there are two points in line each other in horizontal position.
The points come from left to right. They come from any point maybe near or far or vice-
versa.
I space
Represented in a two- dimensional surface.