ANA GRACE B.

CAMADDU BEED 3A

1. FUNCTION OF ARTS
 There are multiple different functions of art. Some of the primary functions
are story telling, religion, intellectual satisfaction, and personal enjoyment.
Art is all around us, and there is every reason to believe that this has been
the case for millennia. In many ways, art is the human’s response to life
and existence. It is the response to beauty and brutality. It is the response
to inspiration and to a desperate need for change. Art, in short, helps
convey what it is to be human at a particular time in a particular place for a
particular person. But it is also universal in all the ways that humanity has
shared interests and ideals and experiences. Through art, one person’s
experience can touch the lives and experiences of those for centuries to
come.

2. SUBJECT TYPE
 Subject, form, and content comprise the three basic components of a work
of art. In general, subject may be thought of as the “what” in a piece of art:
the topic, focus, or image. The most common subjects of art include
people (portraiture), arrangements of objects (still-life), the natural world
(landscape), and abstractions (non-objective). The Subject of Arts activity
series introduces you to each of these subjects of art and instructs you in
composing your own artworks using the key elements of each approach.

3. SOURCE OF SUBJECT
 Nature-animals, people, landscapes.
 History- artists are sensitive to the events taking place in the world around
them.
 Greek and Roman Mythology-these are the gods and goddess.
 the judo Christian tradition- religion and art, The Bible, the apocrypha, the
rituals of the church.

4. CONTENT OF ART
 Content is simply the subject matter of an artwork. It's the images you see
—like the trees in a painting of a forest, or the town, the sky, and the moon
in Van Gogh's Starry Night. Content can play a role in formal analysis, but
the content aspect is less important than the “artwork” aspect. A work of
art is usually discussed in terms of its subject matter, form, and content.
Content refers to the intellectual, psychological, spiritual, narrative, or
aesthetic aspect of the work.

5. ELEMENT OF ART
 Line is a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal,
vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.
 Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles;
or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can
express length and width. Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing
length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.
 Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects
is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also
refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art,
when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.
 Colour is light reflected from objects. Colour has three main
characteristics: hue (the name of the colour, such as red, green, blue,
etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is).
 White is pure light; black is the absence of light.
 Primary colours are the only true colours (red, blue, and yellow). All other
colours are mixes of primary colours.
 Secondary colours are two primary colours mixed together (green, orange,
violet).
 Intermediate colours, sometimes called tertiary colours, are made by
mixing a primary and secondary colour together. Some examples of
intermediate colours are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet.
 Complementary colours are located directly across from each other on the
colour wheel (an arrangement of colours along a circular diagram to show
how they are related to one another). Complementary pairs contrast
because they share no common colours. For example, red and green are
complements, because green is made of blue and yellow. When
complementary colours are mixed, they neutralize each other to make
brown.
 Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be
rough or smooth, soft, or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they
look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you
touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.