MY JOURNAL

ERIKA A. AMAT
BSEE-II

ART APPRECIATION
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Journal Prompt #1: Expose

Yourself to Art!
I have been exposed to visual arts since I was a
child. My older brother is good at drawing and
since then I always saw how he draws random
stuffs such as buildings, landscape and mostly
houses. When I started schooling, I’ve been totally
exposed with arts whether I like or not because
some school activities require us to do something
about arts like drawing, painting and other stuffs.
When I was in 2nd grade, I’ve been asked to
represent our school to compete in painting. I can
still remember that I draw the landscape with a
pencil then I colored it with oil pastel, I won 3rd
place in that competition so I can still remember it
because it is the first and the last time, I competed
in the art category. Back in high school, whenever
we have school projects that involves art, I like to
explore and challenge myself so that my art work
will be unique. I once tried drawing a rose using
dots. Based on the module it is called pointillism,
and my audience is of course, my teacher and
classmates.
Journal Prompt #2: A Definition of Art
Based on Module 1, Art is defined as mediums
of artistic expression. Art is indeed a medium
of artistic expression. It is undeniably human
and intimately connected to culture. It elevates
the normal to the exceptional. It raises issues
such as who we are, what we value, what
beauty means, and the human condition. It
enables us to feel sublime joy, deep sorrow,
uncertainty, and clarity as an expressive
medium. It puts our talents, weaknesses, and
determination to the test. It gave life to
thoughts and emotions, links us to the past,
mirrors the present, and foreshadows the
future. I define art as our inner thoughts that
we need or we want to convey. My own
definition is subjective but if we will be based
it on what Module 1 says, it can also be
objective.

Journal Prompt #3: Investigating Art

DROWNING DEEP IN DOUBT BY DOROTHY MEI
CABUYAO HIDALGO
Medium used: Digital Art
This Art is considered as realistic since it is inspired by
the real events happens to the artist, according to her.
This piece is a contemporary art as it is done during
February 2021. Based on picture provided, this art
depicts the artist’s inner thoughts. For me, she expresses
her worries and doubt through this art as she uses light
colors such as sky blue, yellow and some kind of pink.
This art falls under the category of 2D digital painting. I
think this art role will be Enhancing our World.
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Journal Prompt #1: Who Makes Art?

Those people who makes art are called artist. For me there are artist born with such
talent, and there are artists that burning with passion that proves the quote, “Hard
work beats talent”. Artists have an innate ability to create art, but it takes training
and knowledge to become a professional artist. A genius may be a great artist but
there needs to be something to feed the capacity for greatness. Skill does not
appear out of nowhere.

Since artists' motivations and purposes to create

change over time, their artist’s roles change with
various cultural considerations. For example, the
Mona Lisa, it was created in the renaissance period.
The artist’s role is portrait that depicts a seated
woman set against an imaginary landscape.

While the Spoliarium, the paint,

shows how the Filipinos were treated
before when they were colonized by
Spaniards. ... He actually indicated
the purpose of Juan Luna for painting
Spoliarium which is painted to
awaken Filipinos from ignorance,
blindness, mental darkness and
oppression.
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Journal Prompt #2: I am creative!

Module 3 JOURNAL PROMPTS
Journal Prompt #1: Objective Description & Subjective Analysis
TWO-DIMENTIONAL
Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night was
an oil-on-canvas painting. A night sky
roiling with chromatic blue swirls, a
glowing yellow crescent moon, and stars
depicted as radiating orbs dominate the
oil-on-canvas painting. One or two flame-
like cypress trees tower over the
foreground to the left, their dark branches
curling and swaying in response to the
movement of the sky that they partially
obscure. A structured village sits in the
distance on the lower right of the canvas
amid all of this animation. For me, this art
conveys hope since there are colors blue
which represents hope also those stars and
moon depicts a strong feeling of hope.
THREE-DIMENTIONAL
One of Auguste Rodin's most well-known
works is The Thinker, French Le Penseur, a
sculpture of a pensive nude male. The
medium use in this art is sculpture and it is
made up of bronze. The Thinker is a 6-foot
(1.8-metre) bronze statue (commonly called
a monumental) cast in 1904 that sits in the
gardens of the Rodin Museum in Paris.
Also, this artwork is considered as a
realism. For me, this sculpture depicts a
man that has a creative mind and is curious.
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Journal Prompt #2: Making a work of art

The art was created using digital app called, Paint. The given figure was
transformed into a simple art by adding colors, shape, form, details and
texture. The elements use are colors such as blue, green, brown, sky blue, gray,
white, yellow, light yellow, dark gray and light blue. Since I use spray paint in
the application, the texture becomes thicker visually.
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Journal Prompt #1: Repeat Pattern Repeat!

I made a simple coin purse through my mom’s sewing machine and I made it
with vertical pattern on the other side and diagonal on the other side. Also,
the pattern design is flowers and the color is pink.
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Journal Prompt #2: Compare and Contrast

The Birth of Venus

Rava Avis 19

The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in the
mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had
emerged from the sea fully-grown. While the Rava Avis, with a background in mathematics
and science, Jylian Gustlin imbues her paintings with a studied sense of composition. Both
painting is colorful and have the impression of a background such as land, sea and trees. These
two art work is more than 500 years apart. Botticelli's Venus is aloof and uninterested in her
surroundings, drawn in oils on canvas. Gustlin creates her paintings with acrylic and oil paints
on board, layering the effects to produce her distinct and complex results. Landscape figures
often represent a moody and brooding figure while often portraying a sense of the future.
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the
longest
day has
its end.