ART APPRECIATION REVIEWER
LESSON 1:
What is ART?
- ART constitutes one of the oldest and
most important means of expressions
developed by man and woman.
Assumptions of ART
- Assumption is a thing that is accepted as
true or as certain to happen, without
proof.
ART involves experience.
- To experience something, you have to
make use of your five senses. Hence,
there can never be appreciation of art
without having experience it.
ART is not nature.
- Art is not nature; nature is not art.
- Art is made of by man and nature by
God. How ever nature can be enhanced
by man. The enhanced beauty of and
artistry of nature, then, can be classified
as an art.
ART is cultural.
- Art is a work of humans and anything
that has been created by humans is part
of culture.
- Art becomes cultural when it depicts
people’s way of life, religious practices,
more traditions, etc.
ART is a form of creation.
- Art is something that is created with
imagination and skill and that is beautiful
or that expresses important ideas or
feelings. As it is said, humans are the
creator of art.
- No art can be created without humans.
MIDTERM EXAM
NATURE OF ART:
• ART AS A FORM OF CREATION
• ART REPRESENTS REALITY
• ART IS AN EXPRESSION
• ART SERVES AS MEANS OF
COMMUNICATION
• ART MATTERS
• ART IS UNIVERSAL
• ARTS IS CREATION
• IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY
• EMOTION AND ART
FUNCTIONS OF ART:
PERSONAL FUNCTION
- An artist may create out of a need for
self-expression, or gratification.
PHYSICAL FUNCTION
- Form and Function - The function of an
object is generally essential in the basic
form that it takes.
PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORTANCE OF ART
- Like philosophy, art also has a profoundly
communicative function.
- Through its people communicate to one
another their feelings, their most
intimate and infinitely varied and
poignant thoughts.
IMPACT OF ART ON POLITICS, CULTURE, AND
PEOPLE
Why is ART powerful?
- Art is powerful because it can potentially
influence our culture, politics, and even
the economy.
In the words of Leo Tolstoy:
- “The activity of art is based on the
capacity of people to infect others with
their own emotions and to be infected
by the emotions of others. Strong
emotions, weak emotions, important
emotions or irrelevant emotions, good
emotions or bad emotions – if they
contaminate the reader, the spectator,
or the listener – it attains the function of
art.”
- “The truth is that people have
recognized how powerful art can be.”
LESSON 2:
The role of CREATIVITY in ART MAKING
- Creativity requires thinking outside the
box.
- A creative artist does not simply copy or
imitate another artist’s work. He
embraces originality.
Art as EXPRESSION
- Robert George Collingwood, an English
philosopher published “The Principles of
Art.”
- Through expression, one can explore his
own emotions and at the same time,
create something beautiful out of them.
VISUAL ARTS
- Visual Arts appeal to the sense of sight
and are mainly visual in nature.
- Examples: paintings, drawings,
letterings, printing, sculptures, digital
imaging, and more.
FILM
- Film refers to the art of putting together
successions of still images in order to
create an illusion of movement.
KIDLAT TAHIMIK (1942-PRESENT)
- Eric de Guia (real name)
- National Artist of Philippine Cinema
- Known as the Father of Philippine
Independent Film
PERFORMANCE ART
- Performance art is a live art and the
artist’s medium is mainly the human
body which he or she uses to perform,
but also employs other kind of art such
as visual art, props, or sound.
- It has 4 elements: time, place,
performer’s body, relationship between
the audience and performer.
POETRY PERFORMANCE
- Poetry is an art form where the artist
expresses his emotions not by using
paint, charcoal, or camera, but
expresses them through words.
Jose Garcia Villa
- National Artist for Literature
- Is considered as one of the finest
contemporary poets regardless of race
or language.
ARCHITECTURE
- Architecture is the making of beautiful
buildings.
- Buildings should embody the 3
elements, plan, construction, and
design- if they wish to merit the title
architecture as an art.
Juan Nakpil
- National Artist for Architecture
- Nakpil is also famously known as the
son of two Katipuneros, Julio Nakpil and
Gregoria de Jesus (Andres Bonifacio's
widow).
 - Nakpil founded the Philippine
Architects' Society in 1933, now known
as the Philippine Institute of Architects
(PIA).
DANCE
- Dance is a series of movements that
follows the rhythm of the music
accompaniment.
Alice Reyes
- National Artist for Dance
LITERARY ART
- Literary art goes beyond the usual
professional, academic journalistic, and
other technical forms of writing.
- It may include both fiction and
nonfiction such as novels, biographies,
and poems.
Bienvenido Lumbera
- National Artist for Literature (2006)
- As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog
literature what is now known as Bagay
poetry, a landmark aesthetic tendency
that has helped to change the
vernacular poetic tradition.
THEATER
- Theater uses live performers to present
accounts or imaginary events before a
live audience.
- Theater art performances usually follow
a script, though they should not be
confused with literary arts.
APPLIED ARTS
- Applied arts is incorporating elements
of style and design to everyday items
with the aim of increasing their
aesthetical value.
FILIPINO DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART
• BASKETRY
• CERAMICS
• TEXTILES AND ORNAMENTATION
• WOODCRAFT
• MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
• ARMORY
LESSON 3:
ARTISTS
- Artist can be considered as any person
in creating and designing objects
related to any of the fine arts like
painting, sculpture, architecture, music,
dance literature.
- Artists express themselves to any forms
to any forms of arts using mediums or
materials for the artworks to have its
artistic integrity.
ARTISAN
- Artisan is a skilled craft worker or
craftsman (carver, embroiderer, weaver,
carpenter, or plumber) who make things
using his hands.
- Artisan is derived from the French word
“artisan” and Italian “artiagano.”
Pottery
- Pottery is the first synthetic material
ever created by humans.
Weaver
- Weaving is a method of textile
production in which two distinct sets of
yarns or threads are interlaced at right
angles to form a fabric or cloth.
- Panay Island in the Philippines is
considered the heart of Philippine
textiles.
Tailoring
- Tailoring is the art of designing, cutting,
fitting, and finishing clothes.
- The word tailor comes from the French
tailler means to cut.
- tailoring dates to the early Middle Ages
OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE MARKET OR
ART WORLD:
Managers
- Managers control the activities,
promotions, and business dealings.
Curator
- An art curator is an is the overseer or
manager of cultural heritage institutions
like museum, galleries, archives, and
even libraries.
- Art curator oversees museum’s large
number of artifacts from different
places and different significant history.
Collectors and Buyers
- Collectors focus on collecting pieces of
artworks, they acquire or purchase
them.
Art Dealers
- An art dealer buys and sells works of
arts.
- Duties of an art dealer includes dealing,
networking, and searching.
STAGES IN PRODUCTION PROCESS:
- Art production process is the primary
aspects that leads to a deeper
knowledge of art.
Preproduction or Subject Development
- Artist would always start with an idea
on his mind.
Production or the Manipulation of Materials
- This stage involves the gathering and
manipulation of materials using the
artists skills and mastery.
Postproduction
- Postproduction or the completion stage
Medium and Technique
- Medium is the essential to art.
- medium denotes the material used the
artist or substance to communicate his
ideas, new visions, values, and even
institutions.
- It refers to the familiarity of the artists
to his materials and how he
manipulates or controls it.
Graphic Organizer of Story Map
- A graphic organizer uses visual symbols
to express knowledge, concept,
thoughts or ideas and the relationship
between them.
- Graphic organizer is the most effective
visual learning tools and instruction like
concept map, mind map, knowledge
map or story.
Art Engagements and Exhibit
- Art exhibition is an arrangement of art
pieces or array of any art collection in
an exhibition spaces like galleries,
exhibition halls, world fairs and
museums.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION FOR ARTIST AND
ARTISAN
- Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan Awards
or GAMABA is an award that
acknowledges folk and indigenous
artists.
- National Commission for Culture and
the Arts (NCCA)
LESSON 4:
7 ELEMENTS OF ART:
LINE
- Line is the strongest and most
important and influential.
- Lines are powerful tools that can be no
texture and there can be led the viewer
eyes towards the point of interest in a
photograph and alter the overall feeling
and mood of an image.
SHAPE
- Shape is an enclosed area or surface. It
can be easily identified because when a
line crosses itself or intersects with
other lines to enclose a space it creates
a shape.
- Shape is the principal element of
identification.
Geometric shapes have structure and are often
mathematical and precise (squares, circles,
triangles).
Organic shapes lack well-defined edges and
often feel natural and smooth.
Abstract shapes are a minimalist representation
of reality.
FORM
- It’s used to create movements that
would lead the viewers’ attention.
SPACE
- Space is the surface or the area within
the artwork. It constitutes the area or
distance, between, around, above or
within things.
- There are two kinds of space: Positive
space and Negative space.
COLOR
- Color can be considered as the most
expressive of all the elements of art.
Colors can be easily recognized in a
visual experience.
This element contains multiple characteristics.
• Hue is the name of a color in its purest
form. For instance, cyan, magenta, and
green are pure colors.
• Shade is the addition of black to a hue
to make a darker version.
• Tint is the addition of white to a color to
make a lighter version.
• Tone is the addition of grey to make a
color muted.
• Saturation refers to the purity of a color.
A specific color is most intense when it
is not mixed with white or black.
What is color psychology?
- Color psychology has become a popular
area of color theory that assigns
emotional and psychological
connotations between colors and
emotions.
TEXTURE
- Texture is found in all visual’s arts. It’s the
element that deals primarily with the
sense of touch or the tactile sensation or
stimuli.
- Texture maybe described as smooth,
hard, soft, wet, dry, rough, slippery, etc.
KINDS OF TEXTURE:
Actual texture
- Actual texture, or physical texture,
means the actual physical surface of an
artwork or design. It describes the tactile
feeling you would get if you were able to
run your hand over an artwork.
Implied texture REPETITION

- Implied texture, also referred to as visual - A combination of shapes, colors, or

texture or simulated texture, is texture other elements recurring across the
that isn’t there, but looks like it should composition.
be. This is the one that most of us are
PROPORTION
used to. Whether someone draws a
sharp knife, a fuzzy sweater, or a - The comparative relationship of one
haystack, it’ll all feel like a sheet of paper part to another with regards to size.
or a canvas. - Proportion gives a sense of size seen as
a relationship of objects such as
PRINCIPLE OF DESIGN:
smallness or largeness.
BALANCE
RHYTHM
- It has something to do with visual
- A regular repetition of elements can
weight.
produce implied movement. Artists
- Balance is how the elements within a
creative visual rhythm by repeating art
composition are arranged
elements and creating patterns.
symmetrically, asymmetrically.
VARIETY
Symmetrical
- This principle creates an interest and
- The most stable among the kinds of
appeal in a body of work. Using
balance is symmetrical balance or
differences and change may result to
formal balance. When one side of the
increasing visual interest.
composition mirrors of other.
- An artist may use variety to make you
Asymmetrical look at a certain part or make the
artwork more interesting.
- It is achieved when one side of the
composition does not reflect the design UNITY
of other but visually balanced.
- It can be accomplished by using all
EMPHASIS elements and some principles to create
a pleasing image. Unity is the feeling
- Emphasis is the part of the design that
that everything in the work of art works
catches the viewer’s attention.
together and looks like fits.
PATTERN

- Pattern is the repeating of an object or

symbol all over the work of art.
- Pattern is the repetition of specific
visual elements such as a single unit or
multitude of forms. Patterns can be
used to create balance, organize
surfaces in a consistent manner, or
create contrast.