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One of the innate qualities that “pretty art” can give is that it makes our dull, lifeless walls come to life. The contrast of having something “alive” and dynamic to look at on something ordinary and common, let Us say a pristine white wall evokes in us an affinity towards its beauty.
Beauty
It is a common denominator when we are talking about apprecialing forms of at.
It makes sense to most of us.
Beauty
There is something about art that mirrors the soul of those willing to confront it. In a societal tone, artworks tend to echo the hopes and anxieties of an age.
Happiness and Hope
Today’s generation, being the “me’ generation, is also sometimes tagged as the “anxious generation”. A lot of social issues evidently reflect this struggle for identity: gender issues, disconnectedness brought on by social media, regionalism, and even mental health issues.
Identity and Understanding the self
It can serve as a powerful tool to help us communicate and relay our confusion.
Art
Even ___ use art as therapy to aid in processing some sensitive experiences.
psychological interventions
Many of the most poignant and humanistic products of art were made after the Word War Il. Twentieth-century art mostly expressed human suffering and darkness in its themes.
Grief and Healing
She talked about this haunting remembrance of holocaust victims in her work “Ghost Library.” Here, she used an experiential type of artistic expression, exploring the themes of place and memory in an architectural setting.
Rachel Whiteread
Some may use art as a tool to express. pain and process it in therapy. Nonetheless, it plays an important role in making grieving somehow dignified.
Grief and healing
one example of a type of art that helps us remember
Rizal in Luneta Park
Without the tangible characteristic of art, we will not be able to sustain our nationalistic values well enough. We have pictures, films, and paintings that depict heroism and nationalism.
Remembering and mark-making
His work “Angel of the North” has been considered as the largest sculpture in the world and one of the most popular.
Antony Gormley
She had this humongous, bean-shaped metallic sculpture placed at that certainly builds a sense of mark and identity to that place where the traffic of pedestrians is usually heavy.
Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” in Chicago
Where us Gormly’s art situated?
Gateshead, England
Some art can be categorized as activist art. But not all are as loud and garish. Some are subtle paintings which might use satire.
Raising Awareness
forms of art are often localized so that they bring identity also to certain regions.
Culture and Togetherness
Are the formal or tangible aspects of art
Elements of Art
It can be expressive and have a quality of its own like: scribbles, whimsical or naïve lines, implied lines, blurred lines (lines that are smudged, shaded or erased), aggressive lines, and calligraphic lines.
Lines
It has Three basic kinds: geometric, biomorphic, and amorphous. It can also, be implied (produced by the negative space).
Shapes
Three kinds of shapes
Geometric
Biomorphic
Amorphous
Three-dimensional shape. Can refer to the quality or likeness of an entire mass, let us say, the form of a woman. It employs several techniques like shading, perspective, and lighting.
Form
the lightness and darkness of a hue or a color. Often represented in a tonal value scale, it has two parts: the tints (lighter tones) and the shades (darker tones). A tone is a general term for a certain value
Value
Two parts of value
Tints (lighter tone)
Shades (darker tone)
It is also known as hue. Scientifically, it is the light that bounces off a surface. In art we use subtractive colors, i.e., colors that are from pigments. Additive colors refer to a property of light.
Color
It can be used in paintings like impasto, stamping, and scratching in pottery, embossing when making prints, and many others. Contemporary artists have also used the element of texture to convey a certain emotion.
Texture
Without it, all the previous elements will not be possible. It creates the illusion that color, form, and texture exist. It can be implied, natural, or artificial (as with a digital rendition). The lighting of an artwork has a very strong effect on its overall impact. An example of strong and theatrical lighting is called chiaroscuro.
Light
It is an area where the other elements can interact. Two types: positive and negative space. Double negative space refers to a blank space used as negative space by, let us say, a field of color or pigment.
Space
It simply means it mimics what is real or what can be seen. The image is recognizable as interpreted by the artist.
Representational
It is a modified interpretation of something that exists, but it becomes hardly recognizable.
Abstract
It is purely concerned with forms, shapes colors, and the rest of the elements. It does not represent any other subject matter outside of itself.
Nonrepresentational
are long held composition techniques which have been proven and used by both fine and graphic artists to communicate ideas and concepts effectively.
Principles of design
Design principle which uses the element of value to create depth and dimension. Light also plays an important role in creating good ___.
Contrast
Elements are related to each other in terms of form, color, theme, etc.
Harmony
Aesthetic quality of a work marked by a sensible balance between two areas: right and left; top and bottom.
Balance (Symmetrical and Asymmetrical)
Creating a sense of direction through repetition of elements. Movement direct the viewer’s eye toward something.
Rhythm and Movement
Elements should be seen as a whole in unity; variety still gives a sense of wholeness but the elements differ in some aspects and provide more interest to the work.
Unity and Variety
An area or a specific subject is given focus; hence other parts of the picture are subordinated.
Emphasis and Subordination
This can be either an appropriate use of scale and proportion or it can also be an effective way of changing the scale to achieve a certain visual goal. It also shows relationship between the object and the space.
Scale and Proportion
Shows three-dimensionality of a space through the use of perspective lines and vanishing points.
Depth and Perspective
this strategy tends to “sum up” an idea into one iconic imagery. It often plays with the negative and positive space and makes use of both.
Gestalt Theory
Colors have imbibed certain meanings. Whether it is a social construct or a product of association, these hues certainly appeal to our understanding of the world based on how they are used.
Color Psychology
This color represents pure, pristine, clean, and neutral
White
This color represents optimism, confidence, hope, trendliness
Yellow
This color represents royal, luxury, quality, authenticity
Violet
This color represents glamor, integrity, stability, efficiency, status
Black
This color represents strength, power. reliabilty, warmth, nature, heat, support. and seriousness
Red
This color represents trust, longevity, formal, logic, calm, cool, serene, intelligence, and communication
Blue
This color represents neutrality, cleanliness. classy, dependable, sturdy
Gray or Silver
This color represents childish, comfort, fragrant, friendly, calm, and innocent
Pink
often used in domes for some classical paintings and even modern architecture, symbolizes femininity because of its womb-like shape. Since it has no corners, it also resonates eternity. Socialism in art has a different connotation for the circle, which states about people’s equality.
Half circle
when used in a composition, suggests relationship. In Leonardo Da Vinci’s
“Madonna of the Rocks” the triangular arrangement of the figures, with the Madonna at the apex may suggest stability and inclination toward the central figure.
Triangle
It may intentionally lead a viewer to a focal point of the subject matter.
Implied line or line movement
this is the term for the materials used in specific types of technique.
Medium
It is a specific length of time in history with a prominent movement, trend, or creed in artistic practice.
Art period
are sets of distinguishable styles and artistic tendencies often characterized by a major trend in techniques or approach. Usually, they are named with the suffix “ism” at the end. It suggests a certain attitude toward painting or any art-making.
Art movements
Cave paintings, Venus figurines which are considered portable sculptures
Greek standard of beauty: the birth of the “Classical” Age
Romans: the competitor of Greece; created realistic sculptures of human figure
Prehistoric
The “death” of artistic freedom due to canonical standards of visual interpretation
The rise of Gothic art especially in Gothic Churches
Popular art: Stained glass windows and illuminated manuscripts
Middle Ages
Revival of artistic genius
Where the term “Renaissance Man” was derived because of man’s intellectual achievements in the arts and science
The time of “Masters” e.g., Donatello, Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Van Eyck
Renaissance
Grandiose and ornate art
Artistic innovation: “spotlight effect” called chiaroscuro or in extreme usage, it is called tennebrism
Artists to note: Caravaggio (Italy), Velazquez (Spain), Poussin (France), and Antonio Gaudi (designer of “Sagrada Familia” chapel in Barcelona)
Baroque
Emergence of “isms”
Neoclassicism: Greek and Roman Classics revived
Romanticism, Realism, Art Nouveau, Impressionism
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Photography comes into the scene
Post-impressionism, early expressionism, and symbolism
19th Century
Art became more non-representational
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Garish colors explored in Fauvism
Abstracted sculptures emerged
Simplified forms in paintings by Picasso and Matisse
Art movements: Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Expressionism
Mondrian’s purely geometric art
20th century Modern Art
Dadaism: the art movement that defies logic
Surrealism: stepping into the dreamworld
American art blossoms: Jackson Pollock became famous as “Jack the Dripper” and paved the way for American Abstract Expressionism
Mobile Sculptures (Alexander Calder) and Color Field (Rothko) paintings also became prominent
Art During the Wars
Highly experimental and radical
Pop art defines consumer culture; dominated mostly by works of Andy Warhol
Minimalism: glorifying the simplest art elements
Birth of conceptual art
Photography is further developed which paved way to art movement,
Photorealism Neo-expressionism or new expressionism is characterized by strong subject matters
Contemporary Art a very dlverse art scene; the rise of appropriation, photography-derived works, graphic style of art, experimental works, multimedia and multi-modal art
20th century to Contemporary
as mentioned by James Elkins in the essay, What Happened to Art Criticism, is a discipline of the arts that seems to be both healthy and dying.
Art Criticism
It basically gives importance to the formal qualities (art elements, materials, and design principles) as basis for the meaning of art.
Roger Fry is a major purveyor of this thinking. The form is the content per se and does not take history and context into account
Formalism and Style
Focuses on the subject matter primarily over form. When using this method, you will answer questions like: who is this person the artist painted and what does it represent?
Why did the artist choose this image and what for?
Iconography
From the term itself, context becomes an important factor in criticizing artworks here. We can take many approaches to contexts like Marxism, Orientalism, Colonialism, Racial Iconography, Feminism, and Gender. As you can observe, these are mainly schools of thought and philosophical movements which place an artwork within a certain parameter.
Contextual approaches
Considers the life and context of the artist. This approach is based on the assumption that the artist’s life, beliefs, choices, and personality are directly connected to the works that he or she creates.
Biography and Autobiography
From the Greek word “sema,” which means sign. Hence, an artwork or art form is assumed to be composed of a set of signs that may have significant cultural and contextual meanings beyond itself.
Semiotics
Freud is probably a familiar name in the field of psychology and he is one of the basis of this theory. In this, one is concerned about the unconscious mind in relation to the artist, the viewer, and the cultural context it is involved in.
Psychoanalysis
Individual notion of what is considered acceptable, beautiful, or attractive in works of art are in part influenced by psychological factors. This approach then connects psychology to one’s constructed philosophy of art.
Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis
