ART APPRECIATION COMPILATION

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RIMANDO, LOVELY BLESS A

MATULAY, JHANINE T
CHIONG, NICOLE ANNE
PLACIDO, ANGELICA
BILLY, UNOMIE
PAINTING
THE ELEMENTS OF ART - The building blocks or ingredients of art.
1) LINE
-A mark with length and direction. A continuous mark made on a surface
by a moving point.

2) COLOR
-Consists of Hue (another word for color), Intensity (brightness) and Value (lightness
or darkness).

3) VALUE
-The lightness or darkness of a color.
4) SHAPE
-An enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.

5) FORM
-A 3-dimensional object; or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-
dimensional. For example, a triangle, which is 2-dimensional, is a shape, but a pyramid,
which is 3-dimensional, is a form.

6) SPACE
-The distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things.

7) TEXTURE
-The surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc.
Textures may be actual or implied.

THE PRINCIPLES OF ART -What we use to organize the Elements of Art, or the tools to
make art.
1) BALANCE
- The way the elements are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.

 SYMMETRICAL BALANCE - The parts of an image are organized so that one


side mirrors the other.

 ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE - When one side of a composition does not


reflect the design of the other.

2) EMPHASIS
-The focal point of an image, or when one area or thing stand out the most.

3) CONTRAST
-A large difference between two things to create interest and tension.
4) RHYTHM AND MOVEMENT
-A regular repetition of elements to produce the look and feel of movement.

5) PATTERN AND REPITITION


-Repetition of a design.

6) UNITY
-When all the elements and principles work together to create a pleasing.

7) VARIETY
-The use of differences and change to increase the visual interest of the work.
8) PROPORTION
-The comparative relationship of one part to another with respect to size, quantity, or
degree; SCALE.

PAINTING- the practice of applying color to a surface such as, e.g. paper, canvas, wood,
glass or concrete.

WAYS OF PRESENTING SUBJECT


1) REALISM
-describes as accurately and honestly as possible what is observed and the details seem so
natural.
TYPES OF REALISM:
 MAGIC REALISM
-projects an effect of the fantastic with an air of mystery or strangeness by the
use of flat color.

 SOCIAL REALISM
-seeks to depict the situations and concerns of the poor and voiceless majority.

 SUPERREALISM
-Photographic or photorealism.
Paint from photographs, replicating canvas.

 FANTASTIC REALISM
-Combines diverse elements of fantasy and imagination with a strict attention
to realistic detail.

2) ABSTRACT
-Means “to move away or separate”. One phase of a scene. Does not show subject.
 ELONGATION
-The character or the object being painted is elongated or extended to
emphasize a certain purpose of the painter.

 CUBISM
-the use of a cone, cylinder or sphere.

3) EXPRESSIONISM
-Proportion is overridden by the intensity of the artist emotion
The artist tries to express certain feelings about some thing.

 POINTILLISM
-A technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in
patterns to form an image.

 POP ART
- An art movement that began in England, characterized by popular images
like those in movies, politics, advertising, comic strips, supermarket
products etc.

 IMPRESSIONISM
-Subject matter is most often landscape or scenes from daily life.
Impressionists were interested in the use of color, tone, and texture in order to
objectively record nature. They emphasized sunlight, shadows, and light.

 SURREALISM
-Surreal means intense irrationality or beyond natural.
Emphasized the activities of the subconscious mind which pictures out images
in a form of a dream.

 SYMBOLISM
-A symbol is a thing or a single object that stands for another thing. Ex: Flying
dove= freedom

 FAUVISM
-Fauvism (wild beasts) was an art movement that used intense sometimes
clashing or unnatural colors and bold brush strokes.
Usually used to express a feeling of joy, comfort or pleasure through
extremely bright colors.

 DADAISM
-A French word meaning boby horse.
A protest movement against the traditional outworn arts and evils in the
society.
Dadaist artist tries to start outrage to undermine faith and dependence to an
established institution.

 FUTURISM
-An Italian art movement celebrating noise, technology, machines, war,
photography and movement, characterized by contrast, speed, and restlessness
of modern life.

 PRIMITIVISM
-looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very
simply, and the subjects are "flat", or two-dimensional.

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