Elements of Art and Principles of Light reflected off objects.

Color has three main

characteristics: hue (red, green, blue, etc.),
Composition value (how light or dark it is), and intensity
Composition (how bright or dull it is).
The arrangement of elements in a work of art.
- Value describes the brightness of color.
- Symmetrical compositions - Intensity describes the purity or
- Asymmetrical compositions strength of a color.
Line
A line is an identifiable path created by a point Texture
moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can The surface quality of an object that we sense
vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often through touch.
define the edges of a form. Lines can be
horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, straight or - Texture depicted in two-dimensions:
curved, thick or thin. Artists use color, line, and shading to
imply textures.
Shape and form - Surface texture: The surface of this
Shape and form define objects in space. Shapes writing desk is metallic and hard.
have two dimensions—height and width—and
are usually defined by lines. Forms exist in
three dimensions, with height, width, and depth.
Medium and Techniques
- Shape has only height and width.
- Form has depth as well as width and The mediums of visual in 2-dimensional
height. Three-dimensional form is the art.
basis of sculpture, furniture, and
decorative arts. 1. Water color - A simple coloring medium
- Geometric shapes and forms include has less luminous effect when applied but
mathematical, named shapes such as easy to use
squares, rectangles, circles, cubes, 2. Fresco - A paint on a moist plaster
spheres, and cones. surface applied with lime water mixture
- Organic shapes and forms are typically 3. Pastel and chalk - Dry pigments held
irregular or asymmetrical. together by a gum binder and compressed
into stick
Space 4. Oil- Is pigment mixed with linseed oil
and applied in canvass Expensive, Flexible,
Real space is three-dimensional. Space in a work Glossy, Dries slowly but lasts long
of art refers to a feeling of depth or three 5. Tempera - A mineral pigment mixed
dimensions. with egg yolk or egg white and ore
6. Encaustic - Used by Egyptian in the
- Positive and negative space: The portrait of face as in the case of community
relationship of positive to negative space done with wax colors by
can greatly affect the impact of a work of the use of heat
art. 7. Acrylic - A medium most widely used by
Three-dimensional space: The perfect the painters these days because of the
-
illusion of three-dimensional space in a
characteristics of
transparency and quick drying
two-dimensional work of art is 8. Stained glass - Is a combination of small
something that many artists, such as pieces of colored glass held together by
Pieter Saenredam, labored to achieve. hands of lead
9. Tapestry - A fabric consisting of warp
Color where colored threads are woven to make
designs Used in wall
hangings or furniture cover retain the ink and form the printed image.
10. Mosaic - A picture decoration which 11. Photography –it uses a camera to
are cut small pieces of colored stones or produce the desired copy. Literally drawing
glass and glued or pasted or writing with light.
on a surface with cement or plaster 12. Etching techniques - Etching, a
11. Crayons - Are pigments bound by wax method of making prints from a metal
and compressed into painted sticks used by plate, usually copper, into which
students the design has been incised by acid.
12. Charcoal - Made from carbonized 13. Printing -Printmaking is the process of
materials from heating wood creating artworks by printing, normally on
paper, textiles, boards
Techniques - means a process, or a or metal plates.
method of using the medium in a Context of Arts
manner that he wishes to finish an
artwork Context
● Refers to settings, conditions,
1. Blowing techniques - Blowing circumstances, and occurrences.
techniques requires pushing in air to ● Affects production and reception or
spread paints, spread molten audience’s response to an artwork.
crayons on paper or shaped molten glass by
the use of electric hair blowers. ● Set of background information that
2. Transfer design - Transferring design enables us to formulate meaning
requires a design in another medium and it about works of art.
will be transferred to ● Note how context affects form.
another medium.
3. Tinkering - Someone who repairs, or
attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or What are the Context of Art
who invents such
devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer. The act Artist's Background
of repair or invention. ● The artist’s age, gender, culture,
4. Splattering - “Splatter painting” refers to
a set of techniques for using brushes and economic conditions, social
other implements to environment, and disposition affect
flick, throw, or drip paint onto a painting art production.
surface — instead of painting with brushes ● The mode of production which
to create original abstract
art. encompasses the kind of materials
5. Throwing - The specific process of accessible to the artist.
making an object, pot or any ● The conditions surrounding labor,
other object, into a desired shape while on also hope the work produced by the
potter’s wheel is also referred as “throwing.”
6. Coloring - Coloring is the most basic in artist.
art. It requires the use of colors applied to
drawings of sketches Nature
or you may start with colors right away.
7. Flowing - This techniques is done by Nature can be seen as a source of
mixing paints in the cup and flip it on the ●
canvas, pull the cup of and inspiration.
the paint will flow all over the canvas. ● A wellspring of materials for art
8. Cutting - Papercutting is the art of paper production.
designs. designs are cut from a single sheet
of paper as opposed to multiple adjoining
sheets as in collage Society, Politics and Economy, and
9. Scratching - Scratch Art is a graphic History
technique.
10. Engraving - Engraving is a ● Although art is a form of expression,
printmaking technique that involves we discern that throughout it’s
making incisions into a metal plate which
 history, the works are not always questions: What do I see? How does
created out of the artist’s full it smell? How was the texture? How
volition. do I hear it?
● Changes in society, politics and ● Subject Matters are stated often as a
economy affects artist, the work that simple noun phrase.
they do, and the structures that
support their production. Theme
● Technological innovations engender ● Are the fundamental and often
shifts in artistic production. universal ideas of artworks
● It is the deeper message a certain
Everyday Life artworks wants to depict
● Themes are usually about life,
● Philippine traditional art has always society and human nature
been an integral part of daily life. ● Usually stated as an issue and
● Its significance lies not only in its something to be argumentative
aesthetic appearance, but also in it’s (claim) – which is always dependent
functionality . to the artist.
● Also in its value to the community
that produced it.
● Traditional forms may also be used
in daily private situations.
Two and Three -Dimensional Media
Mode of Reception
Two dimensional Media
● Aside from considering our personal - An artwork is described as
identity as a perceiver of an art as two-dimensional if it has length and
well as the context, it is also width. Two-
important to note when, where, and dimensional artworks are flat.
how art is encountered.
● Most often, art is encountered via
museums.
● Reception is very much affected by
our level of exposure to the art
forms may be unfamiliar or
shocking images.
Themes and Subject Matter
Subject Matter
● Subject in the arts refers to what
they are all about.
● It is the main idea that represents
the artwork.
● Subject Matter shows the essence of
a certain piece.
● We use our basic senses to identify
subject matter; answering the