Visual arts

• Visual arts


  A form of art that is seen
• Forms of visual arts

  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Printmaking
  • Sculpture
  • Ceramics
  • Photography
  • Videomaking
  • Filmmaking
  • Design
  • Crafts
  • Architecture
• Reading visual arts


  The ability to read, analyze and critique works of visual arts
• Visual reading


  The ability to find meaning through imagery
• Reading is the process of forming a perception based on the imagery, form, and languages, of the text, translated through the experience of the reader
• Purposes of visual arts

  • Ceremonial
  • Artistic expression
  • Narrative
  • Functional
  • Persuasive
  • Conveyance of beauty
• People may learn to address and embrace diversity, present emotions, and differentiate values in the world because of arts
• Arts allows the schools to provide the students with knowledge of ethics, see social realities, and understand their rights and responsibilities
• Benefits of studying art

  • To develop self-exploration and self expression
  • To understand varied cultures
  • To develop strong analytical abilities
  • To develop better interpersonal and intrapersonal skills
  • To enhance communication skills
  • To develop higher order skills
  • To help in conceptualizing, problem solving, and critical thinking
  • To develop self discipline
  • To adapt and be creative
• Visual arts benefits the emotional well being and academic progress of an individual. It creates a deep sense of satisfaction. Art helps with self expression, enhance creativity, and develops critical thinking skills, discipline, communication skills, and analytical skills. It creates creativity and helps in understanding varied cultures. It helps in conceptualizing and developing language. Because it evolves emotions, it is vital to human development
• Elements of art

  • Color
  • Line
  • Space
  • Form
  • Shape
  • Value
  • Texture
• Color

  Hue, Saturation, Value
• Types of lines


  • Curved
  • Straight
  • Thick
  • Thin
  • Horizontal
  • Zigzag
  • Spiral
  • Diagonal
  • Dotted
• Positive space


  The area of the composition that the subject occupies
• Negative space


  The empty or open space that surrounds the objects
• Types of texture

  • Smooth
  • Rough
  • Hard
  • Soft
  • Woven
  • Bumpy/lumpy
  • Jagged/irregular
  • Ridged
• Principles of art

  • Pattern
  • Balance
  • Emphasis
  • Contrast
  • Harmony and unity
  • Variety
  • Movement
  • Proportion
• Asymmetrical balance


  Both sides are different, but it is arranged so that it looks balanced
• Symmetrical balance


  A sense of formality, order, and permanence
• Types of visual arts and media forms

  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Sculpture
  • Printmaking
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Videomaking, vlogging or filmmaking
  • Textile art
  • Digital art
  • Installation art
  • Calligraphy
• Components of author's meaning in reading visual arts

  • Expert's meaning
  • Artist's meaning
  • Visual thinking
  • Critical viewing
• Components of audience's meaning in reading visual arts

  • Visual language
  • Constructive meaning
• The 'level of visual analysis' is a guide that will help you analyze visual art visual analysis help you understand our truth the visual element, visual structure, formal properties, content, and meaning
• Literal description


  A process in which relevant data is under identified and gathered from a piece of art
• Audience's meaning


  Reading visual arts from the perspective of an audience, viewing a visual artwork
• Tools for reading visual arts from an audience's perspective

  • Visual language
  • Constructive meaning
• Visual language


  Reading visual arts through looking at the artwork's message, code and symbols
• Constructive meaning


  Reading visual arts using one's experience and perspective to interpret and read art
• Levels of visual analysis

  • Literal description
  • Comprehensive feeling
  • Formal analysis
  • Interpretation of meaning
  • Value judgment
• Literal description


  • Relevant data is identified and gathered from a piece of art, students observe and describe the features carefully
• Comprehensive feeling


  • Broad initial appreciation of a piece of artwork based on individual difference in experience, knowledge, and personal feelings
• Formal analysis


  • Examines how visual elements are combined, how composition achieves certain effects, analyzes image sources and development, identifies materials and processes, recognizes signs/symbols, identifies cultural or stylistic aspects
• Interpretation of meaning


  • Drawing from personal experience, formal analysis, and contextual knowledge to reflect on and interpret the embedded message of the artwork
• Value judgment


  • Drawing on all the above to make reasonable, effective and comprehensive judgments about the significance and value of the artwork
• Questions to ask when looking at an artwork

  • When was it made?
  • Where was it made?
  • Who made it?
  • Was it made for someone else?
  • What technologies does its production depend on?
  • What were the social identities of the maker, the owner and the subject of the image?
  • What was the relation between the maker, the owner and the subject?
  • What is being shown? What are the components of the image? How are they arranged?
  • Is it one of the series? Where is the viewer's eye drawn to in the image and why? What is the vantage point of the image?
  • What relationships are established between the components of the image visually?
  • What color was used?
  • How has technology affected the text?
  • What are the genres of the image? Is it a documentary, soap opera or melodrama, for example?
  • Does the image comment critical on the characteristic of this genre?
  • What do the different components of the image signify?
  • What knowledge is being deployed?
  • Is it a contradictory image?
• The old Guitarist, 1903. By Pablo Picasso.
• Author's meaning


  The artist of this painting is Pablo Picasso. Picasso underwent a lot of trials and challenges in his life because of channeling his frustration and emotion through his paintings. His painting was then called the Blue Period when Charles Casagemas died. This was when because he started to paint in blue. Hence his face painting was titled The Death of Casa Gemmas 1901. Picasso chose blue to communicate spin through this color. Picasso was able to show his vulnerability.
• According to expert Ravin and Perkins, (2004,) the painting was made because the artist blamed himself for the death of his friend. Picasso recalled took a dramatic turn when he developed his first distinctive style, he nearly monochromatic Wake of the Blue. This week, our melancholy figure in blue Picasso's painting in In Gray Brick are mostly based on the theme of blindness. He painted elongated arms, torsos and heads.
• The old guitarist also has goose clear female face that appears under a layer of paint. It was said that Picasso could not always find the money for a new canvas, so he used an old canvas and would paint one painting on top of another. In the painting you would see an old man with broken bones. He's holding a guitar, and his bow head shows that he has a little strength.
• One can ask questions such as why is the man sad? What makes the man sad? Why is the old man blue?