Starry Night
• Made by Vincent Van Gogh Inside the Asylum Core Principles
(Southern France) out of depression
Gaguin - the one who has a conflict with van
Gogh
Kevin Eric Raymundo
• famous for his artwork "Tumindig"
Art
• human activity that involves the creation of
visual auditory or performed artifacts known as
artworks
• Latin: Arse skills / craft
• First used in 19th century.
Functional Arts
• aesthetic arts that has a function: Architecture -
way of life can be characterized through the
lens of mimesis, communication, power to
convey emotions and the ability to represent
what is thought or expressed
Classical Branches of Art
1. Sculpture-making 3D artwork
2. Architecture-designing / constructing a building
3. Painting - using painting
Why do we need to define art?
Art is consumed every day
• allows you to have an eye for aesthetics
• offers psychotherapeutic benefits
• trains your mind to evaluate scrutinize and
criticize elements of an
artwork
Nature of Art
• can take many visual forms from photorealism
to abstraction
Photorealism - easily distinguishable
Abstraction - \not easily distinguishable
Individuals can describe an artwork using fundamental
element and core principles.
Fundamental Elements
• line
• color
• shape
• valve
• texture
• form
• space
• movement
• harmony
• contrast
• proportion
• balance
• patterns
• unity
Formalism
• a strict or a technical canon that artist's tend to
follow in the early day of art
• (The Entomb ment of Christ - Caravaggio)
Realism
• based on everyday living
• (Burial at Ormans - Gustave Courbet)
Concepts that are associated with the Evaluation of
Artwork.
Mimesis
• Greek: imitate
• the presentation of nature and all art that has
been created has undergone a form of
(imitation (Early text of Plato)
Art replication of something beautiful and meaningful
"Those who refuse to Imitate anything produce
nothing"
- Salvador Dali
"lmitation is a driver of production"
Expression
• is taken from the idea that art conveys as a
vehicle for conveying feelings and emotions
Leo Tolstoy (1697)
• as an expression of feelings and experience
John Hospers
• reiterated that art might be not stem primarily
from intense emotions alone
Benedetto Croce
• describe art is an intuition that may only arise
with intense feelings.
Man-made objects, readymade and found objects
• a concept of taking in pre-existing objects and
elevating them to the level of art
Marcel Duchamp
• one of the most influential artists of the 20th Tangible and Intangible Art Forms
Century
• known for his iconic readymade Bicycle wheel in Tangible - inside a variety of artworks that can be
1919 touched seen, or transporter

Forms & Traditions: What are the Art Forms Found in Examples
the Philippines? • Weaved Products
• Clay and porcelain
Indigenous Art Forms • Stone sculpted product
• an art from created by various ethnolinguistic • Wood sculpted product
groups and characterized Dy their culture and • Natural ink drawings and paintings in the form
traditions. of tattoos and wood grained carving
• uses indigenous material that are assembled to
create comprehensible artwork Intangible indigenous Art
• an intangible forms, such as oral forms, music, Oral traditions, Expressions and Language
traditions and celebrations representing the • It may be in the form of songs epics saying and
ethnolinguistic group where it come from community-based language calls

Cloth weaving Hinilawod - longest epic in the Philippines.

• one of the most precious living traditions that
are still kept until today 3 Sundaon demigod brothers.
• Dumalapdap
Basket Weaving Baskets • Humadapnon
• are mainly used by the Cordilleras for their • Labaw Donggon
occupation. They use them as a storage for their
fear when they need to go to mountain terraces Biag ni Lam'ang - Ilocos
to cultivate their land's Mahabharata - Longest epic in India

Pottery Performance Art - street dancing during more Moro,

• Their designs usually geometric with stylized Chanted Pasyon and Moriones
nature motifs pottery became mort functional
as time goes by Mora-Moro
• earliest form of theater in the Philippines
Wood caring • comedia
• Philippine Scripture is the most familiar art form • Introduced by Spanish priest
among Filipinos • revolves between Christians and Muslims
• Anitos most popular wood carving in the
Philippines as well as statues of Christ and 3Ds - goals of Spaniards in colonizing
blessed Mother GOD, GOLD, GLORY
• Bul'ul-Ifugao
• Hagabi Moriones
• religious festival in Marinduque
Tattoos • they imitate Roman soldiers, during lent season
• Philippine tattoos have a rich History dating
back to before the Philippine islands were Social practices Ritual and festivities
colonized by Spaniards Social practices, rituals and festivities such as:
• Uyauy (Ifugao wedding dance)
Visayas Islas de los pintados - Island of the • Atang (Burial Ritual)
Painted people • Pangasi (Rice wine making ritual)

• when Spanish Tribes first arrived they were

greeted by the nearly tattooed Visayas Tribe
Elements of Art
Art has a set of fundamental elementals that when
effectively put together makes it pleasing to the senses.
Most used in Visible Art
7 Seven Fundamental Elements of Art
Line
• is defined as a mark connecting the space
between two points
• unidentifiable path Created by a point moving
in a space
• helps create form and shape
• usually Characterized by their length and width
as well as the path they take
• I dimensional
• Could determine energy motion, direction
within a work of art
Common Types of lines
• Vertical - The Parthenon in Athens, Greece
• Horizontal - The Monk by the sea by Caspar
David Freidrich
Horizon - the sky and earth surface meet
• Diagonal -The Europe Bridge by Gustave
Caillebottle
• Curve - Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
• Zigzag
Types of Lines Based on their Use
• Actual Lines - Are physically present, acting as a
solid connection between two lines.
• Implied Line - Are the paths that the viewers
eye take as they follow through the other
components such as colors, shape or forms
• Classic / Straight Lines - Are used to add stability
and are usually in the form of vertical horizontal
and diagonal lines
• Expressive Lines - Are marks, usually in the form
of a curve, that creates the dynamism of a work
of art
(Portrait of Dr Gachet by Vincent van Gogh)
Outlines or Contour Lines
• It define as a shape Dy outlining the edge or
perimeter of a snape
Hatch lines
• Short, separated lines typically in a single
direction and are used to add volume and
texture to a flat face
Valve
• is the addition of either light or dark in an
artwork and is often characterized by tint and
shade
• Tint-light use
• Tone-gray use
• Shade-dark use
Color
• fundamentally artistic element in many visually
sensed art forms, such as paintings, dances, and
theater most complex out of the seven element
because of the vast combinations and
complexity of color mixing
• Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Integral Parts of Colors
Hue-Color in the color itself
Saturation- Intensity
Value-Lightness or Darkness
Biomorphic Form- based on features as well as our
living elements and nature
Texture- is the tactile quality of the surface or the
perceptible sense of touch of an art
Kinds of texture
Visual Texture - is an implied sense of touch made
by using artistic elements
Actual Texture - the physical texture or real
tangible texture that can be achieved through
how the medium is applied or the specific use of
materials
Form
• the overall physical nature that the work
occupies
• It may also refer to the elements of shape made
by the various elements in a work
• 3 Dimensional
Space
• area that exists between two identifiable points
• defined by the positive and negative space
• shallow and deep space
• the background, foreground, middle ground as
well as the distances between, around and
within an artwork
 Positive Space-best described as the areas in a
work of art that are the subjects, or areas of
interest

Negative space-area around the subject or areas

of interest

Shallow space
• 3 dimensional (Delivery of the keys: Pietro
Perugino
Sistine Chapel
- zoomed in

Deep Space
• 1 dimensional (Avenue de l'opéra: Morning
Sunshine: by Camille Pissarro)
Philadelphia Museum of
Arts
• zoomed out

Shape
• refers to the area, defined by boundaries
and edges in a two-dimensional space
• Enclosed space

Geometric
• generally have a specific name associated
with them

Organic / Freeform space

• follow no rules
• resemble things that we found in nature
• no name associated with them

Text
• Letters or text are overlooked as an
element of art
• Each letter can be illustrated in various font
design and colors
• Used in commercial arty, commonly.