ART APPRECIATION

• In viewing art, there are clues that mediate between the artwork and the viewer, allowing the viewer to more easily comprehend what he is seeing
• Three Basic components: subject, content, and form
• Subject -the visual focus or the image that may be extracted from examining the artwork.
• Content

  The meaning that is communicated by the artist or the artwork; the "why"
• Form

  The development and configuration of the artwork how the elements and the medium or material are put together the "how"
• In the sciences, experimentation is the key of providing hypothesis or a larger theory.
• Representational Arts

  These types of arts have subjects that refers to objects or events occuring in the world.
• Representational Art

  Also termed figurative art because the figures depicted are easy to make out and decipher.
• Non- Representational Art

  Art forms that do not make a reference to the real world, whether it is a person, place, thing, or even a particular event.
• Non-Representational Art

  It is stripped down to visual elements, such as shapes, lines, and colors that are employed to translate a particular feeling,emotion or even concept.
• Sources of Subject: nature, history, greek and roman mythology, judeo-christian tradition, sacred oriental text, and other works of art.
• Still work

  Is a work of art depicting mostly animate subject matter, typically common place, objects which may be natural or man-made.
• Portrait

  Is a painting, photograph, figure, or any other art forms in which the face and it's expression is predominant. The purpose may be to show the resemble, personality, disposition of the individual.
• Contents in Arts

  The meaning or message that is expressed or communicated by the artwork.
• Factual meaning

  The most rudimental level of meaning for it may be extracted from the identifiable or recognizable forms in the artwork and understanding how these elements relate to one another.
• Conventional meanings

  Pertains to the acknowledged interpretation of the artwork using motifs, signs, and symbols and other cyphers as bases of it's meaning.
• Subjective meaning

  When subjectivities are consulted a variety of meanings may arise when a particular work of art is read.
• Realism

  Depicts the artist's attempt to portray the subject as it is. Realist try to be as objective as possible in their subject presentation.
• Abstractionism

  Abstract means "to move away or to separate from" abstractionism as subject presentation moves away from reality, from presenting the subject as it is.
• Cubism

  The abstract form is presented through figures; a cone, sphere, cylinder, triangle, square, cube, and circle in place in of real pictorial elements.
• A symbol is a visible sign of something invisible such

  as an idea or quality. Symbols in art draw the viewers’

  attention to what other message the artist may be

  trying to convey aside from what is obviously

  observed.
• This subject presentation began in France and was the

  first organized movement in the painting of the 1900s.

  ▪ Fauvism means wild beast. The Fauves did not

  express ethical, philosophical, or psychological

  themes but painted pictures of comfort, joy, and

  pleasure.
• Dada is a French hobby horse. It is an art movement

  that doesn’t follow the traditions and principles of art.

  ▪ It is a revolt agaisnt tradition and aims to show the

  wickedness of society.
• This art movement began in Italy. Artist of this

  movement wanted their works to capture the speed

  and force of modern industrial society. Their paintings

  and sculptures highlight the technologies of

  contemporary life.
• Surrealism is an invented word for super-realism. The

  French poet Andre Breton began the art movement in

  Paris in 1924.

  ▪ It emphasized the activities of the subconscious mind.

  ▪ Subject in this kind of presentation attempt to show

  man’s inner mind and how he may perceive his outside

  world.
• The impressionism movement started in France, which

  led to a break from the tradition in European painting.

  ▪ Impressionism is a style of painting that emerged in

  the mid-to late 1800s.
• This art movement occured during the first decade of

  the 20th century in Germany, where this art style was

  introduced. Expressionists believe that man needs

  spiritual rebirth for him to correct defects that ruin

  society.
• A line refers to a point moving at an identifiable path-- it has length

  and direction. It is also has width. It is one-dimentional, however, it

  has the capacity to either define the perimeters of the artwork

  (edges) amd/or become a substantial component of the

  composition. Although a line is “simple”, it has variations in view of

  its oientation/direction, shape, and thickness. These varations

  import not only the visual elements into the artwork, but suggest

  meaning or message being conveyed by the artist.
• Known for using lines to provide

  the outline or contour of the

  figures he portrays in his work,

  Keith Haring first executed the

  public mural “Todos juntos

  podemas parar el sida” (Together

  We Can Stop AIDS) in Barcelona in

  1989. In 2014, it was created at

  the foyer of the Museu d’Art

  Contemporani de Barcelona

  (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary

  Art) to commemorate it.
• Horizontal and Vertical lines - Refers to the orientation of the line. Horizontal

  lines are normally associated with the rest or calm. Vertical lines, on the

  other hand, connote elevation or height. which usually taken to mean

  exaltation or aspiration for action.
• Diagonal and Crooked lines - Diagonal lines convey movement and

  instability, although the progression can be seen. Crooked or jagged lines, on

  the other hand, are reminiscent of violence, conflict, or struggle.
• Curved lines - These are lines that bend or coil. They allude to softness,

  grace, flexibility, or even sensuality.
• SHAPE AND FORM

  These two are related to each other in the sense that they define

  the space occupied by the object of art. Shape refers to two

  dimensions: height and width, while form refers to three dimensions:

  height, width, and depth. Two categories can be used as a broad

  disticntion:
• Geometric - These shapes find origin in mathematical propositions. As

  such, its translation and use are often man-made. These incude

  shapes such as squares, triangles, cubes, circle, spheres, and cones,

  among others.
• Organic - Organic shapes are those readily occuring in nature, often

  irregular and asymmetrical.
• SPACE

  Related to shape and form is space. It is usually inferred from a

  sense of depth, whether it is real or simulated. Real space is

  three-dimentional. Like what has been previously mentioned,

  sculptures are a perfect example of artworks that bear this element.

  However, this can only be manifested in two-dimensional artworks

  through the use of different techniques, or the use (or non-use) of

  area around a drawing or picture.
• COLOR

  Color is perhaps one of the elements that enhances the appeal of

  an artwork. Its effect has range, allowing the viewer to make

  responses based on memory, emotion, and instinct, among others.

  This element is a property of light, as it reflected off the object.
• Hue - this dimension of color gives its name. It can be subdivided into:

  • Primary colors - red, yellow, and blue

  • Secondary colors - green, orange, and violet

  • Tertiary colors - six in total, these hues are achieved when primary and

  secondary colors are mixed
• Value - this refers to the brightness or darkness of color. Often, this is used

  by artists to create illusion of depth and solidity, a particular mood,

  communicate feeling, or in establishing a scene (e.g., day and night).

  • Light colors - taken as the source of light in the composition

  • Dark colors - the lack or even absence of light
• TEXTURE

  Like space. texture can be either real or implied. This element in an

  artwork is experienced through the sense of touch (sight). This

  element renders the art object tactile.