This document provides an overview of art appreciation and various art forms and techniques. It discusses the accumulated goals and experiences represented by art, as well as principles of art including expression, experience, creation, and beauty. It outlines creative disciplines like visual arts, literature, music, and performance. Subjects of art discussed include landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, history/legend, religion, and dreams. Painting and drawing media are examined along with techniques like chiaroscuro, tenebrism, and sfumato. Sculpture materials like wood, ivory, glass, and marble are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of art appreciation and various art forms and techniques. It discusses the accumulated goals and experiences represented by art, as well as principles of art including expression, experience, creation, and beauty. It outlines creative disciplines like visual arts, literature, music, and performance. Subjects of art discussed include landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, history/legend, religion, and dreams. Painting and drawing media are examined along with techniques like chiaroscuro, tenebrism, and sfumato. Sculpture materials like wood, ivory, glass, and marble are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of art appreciation and various art forms and techniques. It discusses the accumulated goals and experiences represented by art, as well as principles of art including expression, experience, creation, and beauty. It outlines creative disciplines like visual arts, literature, music, and performance. Subjects of art discussed include landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, history/legend, religion, and dreams. Painting and drawing media are examined along with techniques like chiaroscuro, tenebrism, and sfumato. Sculpture materials like wood, ivory, glass, and marble are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of art appreciation and various art forms and techniques. It discusses the accumulated goals and experiences represented by art, as well as principles of art including expression, experience, creation, and beauty. It outlines creative disciplines like visual arts, literature, music, and performance. Subjects of art discussed include landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, history/legend, religion, and dreams. Painting and drawing media are examined along with techniques like chiaroscuro, tenebrism, and sfumato. Sculpture materials like wood, ivory, glass, and marble are also summarized.
LESSON 1: ART spaces to meet the physical and aesthetic needs of the community Humanities Creative Disciplines of Art Accumulated record of goals, ideas, value, experiences, and sentiments (G.I.V.E.S.) 1. Visual a. Painting Art b. Drawing c. Sculpture Expression 2. Literacy Effort + passion + skill 3. Musical With human intervention 4. Performing Principles of Art Subjects of Art 1. Art as an Expression 1. Landscape Spiritual → mental → physical 2. Portrait 2. Art as an Experience Image of an aware/conscious person, animal, Relationship between artist and viewer 3. Art and Creation or group Human + resource = art “Las Meninas” nature Artist: Diego Velasquez 4. Art and Beauty A portrait within a portrait Beauty is relative Fernando Amorsolo Changes in time Best portrait artist Varies between cultures Society dictates beauty First national artist, 1972 3. Still Life Functions of Art Shows lifestyle of artist Function = usefulness Symbolism Art has the general function of satisfying: 1) Memento mori – reminder of death individual needs for personal expression; 2) social “The Ambassadors” needs for display, communication , and Artist: Holbein celebration; and 3) physical needs for utilitarian Both portrait and still life objects and structures Oil painting 1. Personal Self-growth and healing 4. Genre Expression and communication of feelings and French word ideas Scenes of everyday activities Therapeutic value “Planting Rice” Defense against the unpleasant Artist: Fernando Amorsolo environment/crowd Oil painting Educate senses and sharpen perception Empathize with others’ situation “The Reception of the French Ambassador” Offers insights to gain a better understanding Artist: Canaletto of oneself and the world 5. History and Legend 2. Social “History of Manila” Seeks to influence the collective behavior of Artist: Carlos V. Francisco people National Artist for Painting Created to be seen or used in public Expresses or describes social or collective Mayor’s Office, Manila City Hall aspects of existence “Maria Makiling" 3. Physical “Malakas at Maganda” Form follows function 6. Religion and Mythology Function → form “The Adoration of Magi” Artist: Giotto 1. Watercolor 7. Dreams and Fantasies Pigment + water Surrealism Mi ‘tientes “The Persistence of Memory” Watercolor paper Artist: Salvador Dali 2. Fresco Oil painting Lime + sand + water + pigment 3. Tempera Drawing vs. Painting Egg yolk + water + earth/mineral pigments Milk + honey = glaze effect Difference in material Easily dries after application Painting: brush Used for religious paintings Drawing: pencil/pen Most common medium used till the How to Analyze Artwork intervention of oil in the 13th century “Beato Angelico” 1. Subject Artist: Fra Angelico 2. Technique The Annunciation with Angel Gabriel and 3. Symbolism Mother Mary 4. Historical Style 4. Encaustic 5. Personal Interpretation Iron rod Application of heat LESSON 2: PAINTING Beeswax + pigment 5. Acrylic Uses brush as a tool Chemically produced Pigment + water = paper gum Synthetic Gouache Opaque painting 6. Oil Damian Domingo Lapiz Lazuli Father of Philippine painting Most expensive oil pigment Founded the academy of Fine Arts, the first Jan Van Eyck school of painting in Manila (1820) “Arnolfini Portrait” Juan Novicio Luna “La Gioconda” “Spolarium” Aka “Mona Lisa” “The Parisian Life” “La Bulaqueña” Madonna Lisa di Antonio Maria “A Portrait of a Lady” Gherardini Paz Pardo de Tavera, Juan Luna’s wife Tenebrism + sfumato Jose Honorato Lozano Scenery watercolor painter LESSON 3: DRAWING Letras y Figuras Letters made of figures Process of making marks on a surface by applying Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo pressure using a tool (ex: pen) “La Innocencio” Most fundamental/basic Portrait of Maria Yrritia Jose Rizal Louvre World’s largest art museum “Father of Philippine Cartoon” Leonardo Da Vinci Elements of Painting Vetruvian Man 1. Paint or Pigment Organs 2. Brush Helicopter 3. Canvas Types of Drawing Mediums of Painting 1. Sketch 2. Cartoon (cartone) Building 3. Finished Work Putting together pieces of block of materials Applicable to architecture LESSON 4: TECHNIQUES Mediums of Sculpture Tricks artists use to come up with better artworks 1. Chiaroscuro 1. Wood Blending light and shade on objects to create 2. Ivory an illusion of space 3. Glass Michaelangelo di Caravaggio “Edsa Shrine” Father of Chiaroscuro Artist: Ramon Orlina 2. Tenebrism Murano – expensive glass Intensified or exaggerated chiaroscuro 4. Marble Larger amount of dark areas beside smaller Carrara areas of light for emphasis Often used type of marble (cheap) Darkness overpower artwork Classification of Sculptures 3. Sfumato Dissolve outline of objects 1. Free-Standing 4. Foreshortening Sculpture in a round Technique or illusion Can be seen from more than one position Objects/limbs project out of the flat canvas “Our Lady of Peace/Edsa” “Supper at Emmaus” Artist: Virginia Ty Navarro Artist: Michaelangelo di Caravaggio 2. Relief 5. Anamorphosis Objects project from a flat background Technique of distorting an image Bas relief Necessary to view it in a specified manner to Raised from background recognize it Incised Inside of the outline is the one carved out LESSON 5: PROPS 3. Kinetic Moving sculptures Theatrical properties Art + physics Objects used by actor Aim to enhance realism Methods of Making Sculpture
Types of Props 1. Carving
Removing unwanted portions of the raw 1. Hand props material to reveal the form 2. Set props Most difficult method 3. Trim props Miniature model in plaster 4. Set dressing props Ask assistant to do forming 5. Environment props Master/artist do finishing touches LESSON 6: SCULPTURE “Pieta” Artist: Michaelangelo di Caravaggio Historical style Jesus and Mary Patron of Arts: St. Luke Only artwork with his signature Aesthetic art defined by the technique of 2. Casting modeling Begins with production of negative mold Modeling Metal: gold, silver, bronze, copper Shaping a single block of mass material into a Metal is poured to the mold to form the solid 3-dimensional form mass Cool and solidify, outer mold is removed “lost wax method” Most expensive method Most expensive metal: platinum “Oble” Artist: Guillermo Tolentino 3. Modeling Additive process Materials: clay and wax Permits artists to rework material or modify Armature Framework to support clay or wax Metal wire is usually used 4. Fabrication Developed in the 20th century due to rising cost of materials Employs method of joining or fastening Nailing, soldering, welding “People Power Monument” Artist: Eduardo Castrillo Patina oxidation