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Reading Visual Arts

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Name: Lucena, Marc Joenel C. Date: February 7, 2024
Year and Section: BSIT 2-2 Professor: Lenin Carlos Mirasol
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FINAL PAPER

Throughout an entire semester of Reading Visual Arts, I have acquired a

deeper understanding of what is art and who is an artist. At the beginning, I
viewed art simply as imitation, and aestheticism. But at the end, I saw that art is
subjective. And to me, art is not about how much effort one puts in an artwork,
rather, it is about the idea one wants to convey.

Moreover, I have grasped how each color, line, perspective, composition, shape,
point of view, setting, light, etc. interact with the piece and resonate with the
viewer. Colors convey mood, symbolism, and emotion; it possesses its own
language (like how the color blue is associated with feelings of sadness, and the
color red is associated with love). Lines guide the viewer's eye through the
composition, creating movement, rhythm, and structure. Perspective provides
depth; it draws the viewers into the scene. Composition is the arrangement of
elements within the artwork; it tells the artwork's story. Point of view is where the
viewer is visually in the composition. Setting is where and how an artwork is
displayed. Light and dark, or chiaroscuro, creates the atmosphere of the artwork.
Overall, these elements work together to allow viewers to project their own
interpretations, emotions, beliefs, and stories onto the artwork.

Futhermore, I have realized that the topics we discussed not only applies to arts,
but also to field of information technology. To me, point of view is the perspective
from which I approach a problem --bottom-up (writing and testing lines of code),
or top-down (planning the overall software architecture and design, ensuring
that it aligns with the user requirements); moreover, point of view is where the
user stands in relation to the user interface (UI), how users move through the
system, how they access information, and where they expect certain features.
These realizations helped me in developing an application in partial fulfillment of
our requirements in our major subject; thinking from the user's perspective and
understanding their needs, expectations, and behaviors helped me create a
UI/UX design that are user-friendly.