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ART-APPRE Module5
ART-APPRE Module5
PAINTING
INTRODUCTION
Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as
drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction. Paintings can be
naturalistic and representational, photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolic,
emotive, and/or political in nature.
In this chapter, you will be exposed to the fundamentals of painting: elements, color
wheel, symbolism and meaning of colors, the mediums in painting and it
characteristics
LEARNING OUTCOME
CONTENT
Elements of Painting
Symbols. The Artists often include symbolic objects in their paintings that have a
special meaning or a special message. It is used to express ideas such as death,
hope, life, etc.
Complementary Colors. These colors sit contrary to each other on the color wheel.
Because they are opposites, they tend to look lively when used together. When you
put complementary colors together, each color seems more noticeable. Examples of
these colors are red and green.
Analogous Colors. These colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They
tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-
orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors.
Neutral Colors. They are sometimes called “earth tones.” These colors don’t
usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and
occasionally brown and beige.
Warm Colors. These colors are made with orange, red, yellow or some
combination of these. Colors of the sunset give a feeling of brightness and heat.
Cool Colors. These colors are made with blue, green, purple or some combination
of these. These colors make you think of cool and peaceful things, like winter skies
and still ponds.
Colors can affect our actions and emotions and on how we respond to various
people, things, and ideas. Much has been studied and written about color and its
impact on our daily lives.
Red Color. This is noted as the warmest of all types of colors. It is most chosen by
extroverts and one of the top choices among males. It is a color which is associated
with fiery heat and warmth and has strong symbolism about life and vitality. It is also
essential to human life because:
Blue Color. This is known as the calmest color like that of the sky and ocean. It is
the color of inspiration, sincerity, and spirituality and often the chosen color by
conservative people. This color is important to human life because:
There are different mediums in paintings used today. It helps to describe the
elements that bind the colors in the paint (Martin, 2004). The following are examples
of the methods used in painting:
Part of the desire in painting particularly in the 21st century is the variety of
available art styles. The style in painting is in two senses: it can refer to the
distinctive visual elements, techniques, and methods that characterized one’s
artwork, and can refer to the movement or school that associated to the artists.
Such classifications include the following styles:
• Western Styles
a. Abstraction. It is an art in painting which does not attempt to
represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use
colors, shapes, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. It
may be formed by reducing the observable phenomenon, typically to
retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose.
• Modern Styles
LEARNING ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY No. 5
COFFEE PAINTING
ASSESSMENT
QUIZ
Identification: Identify the following.
1. It is a type of art wherein the artist creates dreamlike paintings that filled with
mysterious objects.
2. Painting of Juan Luna depicts the suffering of the Filipino people from the
hands of the Spaniards.
3. It is a paint that air dries to a durable, usually glossy and solid finish. It is
used for outdoor coating surfaces or otherwise subject to variations in
temperature.
4. It is the type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment
suspended in drying oils such as linseed oil, poppy seed oil, safflower oil and
walnut oil.
5. They are sometimes called “earth tones.”
6. It is the study of themes and symbols-figures and images, reveal the
underlying meaning of a work of art
7. It is associated with the body at rest, generally expresses calmness, repose,
stability.
8. Who is the artist of the monument of Bonifacio expresses alertness, dignity
and firmness resolve?
9. The British physicist used a prism which is transparent, three sided, solid
object.
10. American physicist constructed a twelve point color wheel based on the
primary pigment colors.
11. Which is being lengthened, a protraction or an extension. El Greco’s
elongated body of Jesus Christ in his “Resurrection” is an example
12. Jackson Pallock was one of the abstract expressionist painters of the New
York School
13. It is a visual representation of color arranged based to their chromatic
relationship.
14. It is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment
mixed with a watersoluble binder method.
15. It is characterized by a cautious rejection of the styles of the past and
emphasizing innovation and experimentation of materials and techniques
instead to create better artworks.
REFERENCES
SBCTC & Lumen Learning. (n.d.) Art Appreciation. Retrieved Last March 18, 2021
from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masteryart1/
Ernesto Thaddeus M. Solmerano, Art Appreciation, First Edition, Copyright 2019
Sanchez, C.A. et al (2012), Introduction to the Humanities, Rex Book Store
Constantino,Bienvenido B. Jr.,(2014), Arts Across Time and Border
Cabasaan, William J. Jr., (2014), Humanities Philosophy and History of Arts
Tabotabo, Claudio V. et al. (2013), Introduction to the Humanities and the Basic of
Arts Appreciaiton
Regado, C. and Mendoza, J. (2013) Art Appreciation:Introductory Reading on
Humanities Focus on Philippine Art Science
RUBRIC
20 15 10 5
Understanding
The artwork is The art work is The artwork The artwork
Demonstration planned planned shows little shows no
that instructions carefully; adequately; evidence of understanding
and understanding understanding understanding of the concepts
concepts of most of some the concepts and
are concepts and concepts and and instructions.
understood. instructions is instructions instructions.
shown. shown.
Craftsmanship/
Skill The artwork The artwork The artwork The artwork
shows good shows average shows below shows poor
Neatness, craftmanship, craftmanship average craftmanship
precision, care. with some and attention to craftmanship and no
attention to detail. and little attention to
detail. attention to detail.
detail.
Creativity/
Originality The artwork The artwork The artwork The artwork
demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates lacks evidence
Inventiveness, some personal an average little personal of
expression of expression and amount of expression and personal
ideas and logical problem personal problem solving expression.
imagination. solving skills. expression. skills.
Effort Advanced Proficient Moderate Below Basic
What it takes to The student put The student put The student put The student put
finish the project forth the effort forth the effort forth the effort forth no effort
as well as required to required to required to or the project
possible, complete the finish the finish the was not
time dedicated to project well; project; used project; completed;
the project inside used class time class time usedclass time class time was
and/or out of well. adequately. adequately. not used well.
class.
ANSWER KEY
1. Surrealism
2. Spolarium
3. Enamel
4. Oil
5. Neutral color
6. Iconography
7. Horizontal line
8. Guillermo Tolentino
9. Sir Isaac Newton
10. Hervert I. Ives
11. Elongation
12. Abstract expressionism
13. Color wheel
14. Tempera
15. Modernism