Aesthetic Perception

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Aesthetic Perception
Introduction
• Remember, art is everywhere. It is a product of a highly creative mind
of artists. Aesthetic perception is very important in applying the
elements and principles of visual arts. In aesthetic perception, we can
see the beauty of color, line, shape, texture and its suitability to its
purpose. True appreciation of art we can apply the knowlege of the
fundamental art principles like harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm
and emphasis.
Discussion (Aesthetic Perception)
1. Perceiving Subtle Qualities
• When you use your eyes to see as artists do, you look for qualities of
line, color, shape, texture and other visual elements
• How you see your world is dependent on how alert you are. It also
depends on what your goal, task or purpose is.
• Like other skills, your perceptual skills for art can be improved
through practice. They can also be used in so many ways that each
person's insight into art is unique. Even if you don't plan on pursuing
art, the perceptual skills you develop can make your life richer.
2. Imaginative Seeing
• Imaginative seeing is looking at something and imagining that it is something
different.
• Imaginative perception can also help you appreciate artworks, especially art from
other cultures.
3. Perceiving with more than your eyes

• Your senses work together to give your mind information. This process is called
multisensory association (“multi” means many)
For example is hard to enjoy if you sit perfectly still. It makes you want to dance and
sing along with it. Some art is hard to appreciate unless you see and “feel” the action.
Elements of Art
 Line - is a mark that is made on a surface. It is a set of points
extending endlessly in both direction. Lines are the first element of art
and are continuous marks that are made on any surface with a
moving point. A line can be used to express various things or feelings;
it can be used to show various moods or anything abstract.
 Shape - Shapes are formed by connecting lines together and enclosing
a space always. It has two dimensions, length as well as width. This is
represented as an enclosed area that is defined by color, value, space,
texture and form. When lines form together they form shapes. Shapes
can be geometrical, rectables, ovals and squares.
 Form - A form always has three dimensions; length, width and height.
Examples of such would be cubes, pyramids, spheres or even cylinders.
Therefore, Form has depth as well as height.
 Value - The value refers to the changes in the base color. This is also
determined by how much light is reflected or absorbed by any surface.
Value mean the various intensities of the tones or colors. This could be
the highlights, midtones or even shadows in any painting or sculpture.
 Texture - The texture is the quality of a suface or the way any work of
art is represented. It is the outward quality or general feel of a surface.
It is also the roughness and smoothness of a surface. There are 3 kinds
of basic texture the actual, simulated and the invented texture.
 Color - is derived from light it gives life and it attract. Color always has
3 characteristics which are hue, value and the intensity. Hue means
the shades (Red, Yellow, or Pink), value refers to the lightness or the
darkness and intensity refers to the brightness or dullness of the work
of art.
 Space - It is the creation of visual perspective; this gives the illusion of
depth. Space can also mean the way an artist uses the area within the
picture plane.
Principles of Art
• Proportion - The proportion principle is now and then called code of
relations. Itis an Arian principle that the length and width of any place
or thing should have 2:3
• Balance - It means to decorate the things together in such a way that
their trivial sign should spellbinding. We can divide balance in further
two forms i.e Formal and Informal.
• Harmony - It means unanimity which can be found in the following: In
form or line,In size or magnitude, In creation, In surface, In colors.
• Rhythm - It means the movement of scene from one thing to another.
Each movement is not pleasant if you feel weariness and hindrance to
watch the movement of one thing to another then its sign could not
be comfortable.
• Emphasis - It means to give central importance to anything. Such as to
keep the things on a apparent place which draw attention towards
initially.
Kinds and Qualities of Lines and Shapes
• Lines have different kinds and qualities which form design when used
together.
• There are many kinds of lines, but they are usually classified into two:
the straight lines and the curved lines. Straight lines suggested
steadiness, balance and columns. Curved lines indicate action, life
energy and pleasant.
The kinds of lines are grouped mainly into
single lines and lines by pairs
• Single lines - vertical line, horizontal line, slanting line, curved line, jagged
line, wavy line, broken line, thick and thin lines.
• Lines by pairs - parallel lines, intersecting lines and perpendicular lines.
• Shape is formed when lines are connected together and enclose a space
• Geometric shapes - the basic figures: circle, square, triangle and
rectangle.
• Organic shapes - free in form and mark the figures of natural things like
houses, clothes, books, bilding and others.
• Square, rhomboid and triangle can be used in making an artwork called
tangram.
Beauty of colors:
• All other colors come from the 3 primary colors: Red, Yellow and Blue
• The mixture of two primary colors produces secondary colors: green,
orange and violet.
Example: red + blue = violet; blue + yellow = green; yellow + red =
orange
• The mixture of one primary color and one secondary color produces
tertiary colors.
Example: red + violet = Red Violet; red + orange = Red Orange; yellow
+ orange = Yellow Orange and etc.
• Isaac Newton invented the color wheel around 1666
• The color wheel is a circle made-up of 12 equal sections showing the
primary, secondary and tertiary colors.
• Color has three properties: hue, value and intensity
• Two types of value: the tint and shade
Surface Texture
• Texture i the outward quality or general fuel of a surface
• The kind of texture is determined through the sense of touch
• The three types of texture: actual, artificial, and visual texture
• Actual texture - tactile surface quality of natural objects. Ex: stones,
wood, leaf, shell etc.
• Artificial texture - surface quality if things copied from original or natural
forms. Ex: a flower model made from paper has an artificial texture.
• Visual texture - Surface quality of objects that are simulated or
reproduced in drawings, paintings, photographs or sketches.
Principle of Design
• To make the design more interesting there are principles that
everybody must consider.
• There are five principles of art: Variety, Rhythm, Proportion emphasis,
and Balance.
• Two types of balance: Formal and Informal balance
• Formal balance when you place two same objects at equal distance
from the center.
• Informal balance when equal distance of objects from the center is
not applied.
VOCABULARY
• Drawing- is a method of making designed in print with different lines
and shapes.
• Circle- is a perfectly round plane figures without sides.
• Balance- refers to the even arrangements of the various elements of a
design or composition.
• Proportion- is the relationship of the visual parts to the whole design
and to one another.
• Rhythm- is a principle of art that gives oneness to the composition
and express a feeling.

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