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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
