Art Appreciation

• Subject - visual focus or the image
• Content - meaning that is communicated
• Form - the development and configuration
• Medium - means by which an artist communicates his ideas/ materials used by an artist
• Creativity - what sets apart from one artwork to another
• Imagination - not constrained by the walls of the norm but goes beyond that
• Collingwood - what an artist does to an emotion is not induce it but to express it
• Visual Arts - Painting, Sculpture, architecture
• Performing/Combined Arts - Music, Dance, Film theatre, literary, Performance Poetry
• Digital Arts - art that is made with the help of electronic devices
• Applied Arts - Fashion, Furniture, Interior, Graphic Design
• Assumptions of Art

  1. Universal
  2. not nature
  3. involves experience
• Functions of Art

  1. Aesthetic
  2. Historical
  3. Personal
  4. Physical
  5. Religious
  6. Social
• Plato - When one describes beauty to another person, he refers to an imperfect beauty that participates only in the form of beauty in the world of forms (Arts as an Imitation)
• Aristotle - an aid to philosophy in revealing truth. it has the ability to allow experience of pleasure and to be instructive and teach its audience about life. ( Art as a Representation)
• Art as a Communication of Emotion - Art plays a huge role in communication to its audience emotions that the artist previously experienced
• Art for Art's Sake - Artist associated with aestheticism believes that art needs no justification
• Line - basic element of Geometry

  • interval between two points and claimed it could be extended
  • add quality
  • foundation of all drawing
• Shapes - result from the coming together of lines

  1. Geometric
  2. Organic
• Colors

  • Most expressive element of art
  • Share powerful connection with emotion
• Space - inferred from sense of depth
• Texture - How a material feels and looks like
• Perspective - technique depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface
• Form - its shape, volume, or width and height
• Intensity - Color's Brightness or dullness
• Value - Brightness or darkness of color
• Light Colors - source of light in the composition
• Dark Colors - lack or even absence of light
• Monochromatic - variation of hues
• Complementary - opposite colors in the wheel
• Analogous - 2 colors beside each other
• Curved Lines - Bend or coil

  • Alludes softness
• Horizontal - associated with rest or calm
• Vertical Lines - Connotes heights or elevation
• Diagonal - convey movement and instability
• Cooked or Jagged Lines - reminiscent of violence, conflict, or struggle
• Auditory Arts

  • Rhythm
  • Dynamic
  • Melody
  • Harmony
  • Timbre
• Rhythm - tines and silences
• Dynamic - Loudness or softness
• Melody - pitch added to the rhythm