CPAR

• Architecture is considered to be one of the most functional branches of the visual arts
• Architecture is considered to be the "art to inhabit"
• Domestic Buildings and Houses are dwellings that have no more than one family unit resident in them, used as a place of permanent or semi-permanent habitation
• Sub-Types of Domestic Buildings and Houses:

  • Apartment: building usually seen in residential areas or called units, built in populated urban areas
  • Bahay na Bato (Bungalow): one-story house with a wide front porch and large window, may have a terrace, updated version of bahay kubo from Spanish colonial period
• Ethnic Houses are characterized by being multipurpose one-room structures, light, airy, comfortable, functional, durable, and structurally stable
• Sub-Types of Ethnic Houses:

  • Bahay Kubo: ethnic house of Christian peasant families in lowland areas, typically owned by low-income groups
  • Houseboat: boat serving as a dwelling, typically inhabited by Badjao or Sama Laur, characterized by an upper-level covering just half of the lower level
• Split-level House (Philippine Tsalet): suburban house with one story, a two-story house with living quarters on the upper level, or an elevated one-story house
• Public Buildings and Structures are any structures owned or leased and principally used by a governmental agency for business or meetings
• Market (Palengke): place or building for buying or selling goods, also known as "Tindahan" or "Tiyangge", evolved form is the mall or galleria

  • Government Buildings: buildings that house branches of government, such as provincial government buildings and municipal government buildings like Kapitolyo (Capitol) and Town Hall (Munisipyo)
• Schools are places where young people are educated to become productive members of the community, commonly American-influenced concrete structures elevated on stilts
• Other Forms and Structures:

  • Kamalig: building used for storing grain, economically significant among tribes in northern Philippines
  • Masjid or Mosque: place of worship for Muslims
  • Cemetery: place for burying the dead, may have chapel and vaults or nichos, modern ones are memorial parks
  • Church (Simbahan): place of worship for Christian congregations
  • Movie House (Sinehan): place to watch films or motion pictures
  • Fort (Kuta): structure built to defend a community against enemies
  • Lighthouse (Parola): built on islands, peninsulas, or rocks to ensure safe passage for ships
• • Bridge (Tulay): horizontal structure serving as a passageway over bodies of water, hollow areas, or roads
• art


  expression or application of human creative skill and imagination
• line, shape, color, texture, value, time and motion


  six elements of arts
• line


  a prolongation of a point or a mark on a surface
• shape


  two-dimensional, flat or limited to height and width
• color


  visual perception that allows you to differentiate objects
• color


  used to express information and emotions
• hue


  represented by the color wheel, pure colors
• saturation


  reflection, need source of light
• saturation


  brightness or darkness
• value

  luminescence, vibrance
• value


  lightness or darkness
• value


  evident when creating shadows for two-dimensional objects to give illusion of depth
• time and motion


  movement in the visual arts can either be an illusion or an actual motion
• illusion of movement


  more common in two-dimensional artworks
• actual motion


  easily seen in kinetic sculpture, a type of sculpture that moves with the wind or are vibrating with the surrounding air
• painting


  process of applying color on a flat surface
• easel, mural, telon, collage


  different forms of painting
• easel painting


  most common form of painting. applying color to an upright board or canvas. meant to be framed and hanged on a wall
• mural painting


  huge wall sized painting used to impact message to public
• telon painting


  backdrop or background for the stages which are used for komedya, sarswela, and senakulo
• collage


  combined images in a single artwork
• genre, historical, landscape, nudes, still life


  different themes of painting
• genre painting


  painting that depicts scenes of everyday life
• historical


  defined by subject matter rather than any artistic style, narrative story, usually about gods and goddesses
• Greek and Roman mythology


  historical paintings are mostly based on
• landscapes


  depiction of natural scenery in art. not manmade
• nudes


  focuses on the unclothed human figure, is based on western arts
• freedom, confidence, fertility


  nudes symbolizes three things: