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• Art

  Derived from the Latin word "ars" which means skill and from the Greek word "techne" which means craft
• Art


  • A therapeutic instrument (Armstrong, 2013)
  • A mode of communication (Ragans, 2005)
  • An avant-garde that means combining or re-ordering of an existing material into a new and unique object
  • Aesthetic (beauty) it gives delightful experience or aesthetic pleasure
  • A reflection of human experiences (the records of human history and development)
• Evidently, behind the beauty of every artwork reflects the ideas and emotions of the artists
• Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night"


  • One of the most thought-provoking visual arts within the century
• The Starry Night


  • Symbolizes Van Gogh's deteriorating mental state
  • Symbolizes his connection to nature and his interest in traveling to the stars through death
  • The swirling, turbulent skies reflect the turmoil he experienced within
  • The vivid colors and dynamic forms suggest the intensity of his emotional state
• Cypress tree


  A symbol of graveyards, mourning, and death
• Stars


  Symbols of dreaming, heaven, and death
• Church


  A symbol of his religious upbringing
• Classification of subject


  • Objective Art (Representational)
  • Non-objective Art (Non-Representational)
• Objective Art (Representational)

  • "The Judgement of Paris" (c. 1597-99) by Peter Paul Rubens
• Non-objective Art (Non-Representational)

  • "A Breath of Summer I" (2019) by Daniela Schweinsberg
• Ways of presenting the subject

  • Abstraction
  • Cubism
  • Distortion
  • Fauvism
  • Pointillism
  • Realism
• Abstraction


  Does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures
• Cubism


  Using simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and eventually, collage in presenting the subject as the emphasis
• Distortion


  Art of twisting, stretching, or deforming the natural shape of the object
• Fauvism


  Stresses the vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color
• Pointillism


  Using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye
• Realism


  Representing familiar things as they actually are. Subject appears naturally and it replicates reality
• Functions and purposes of art

  • Educational
  • Personal
  • Physical
  • Religious-Spiritual
  • Social
  • Therapeutic
• Educational function


  The ceiling painting of Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel elaborates the scenes in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation
• Personal function


  Arts are the reflections of the artist's feelings, ideas, and thoughts as well as their creativity
• Personal function


  • The Sick Child by Edvard Munch
• The Sick Child


  A painting depicting a fragment of Munch's memory particularly focusing on his loss and mourning. It shows the memory of Munch's elder sister dying of Tuberculosis. The painting is often considered a precursor to Expressionism, a movement that emphasizes emotional experience rather than physical depiction
• Physical function


  Arts are also used as tools to lighten works like in architectural design and community planning
• Religious-Spiritual function


  Cave paintings and some sculptures are associated with the religious or spiritual practices of the ancient people
• Social function


  Visual artists produce paintings to reinforce and enhance the shared sense of identity to family, community, or civilization
• Therapeutic function


  In Vincent Van Gogh's "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear", he explained in his letter to his brother, Theo that his portrait would help him to heal
• Shading techniques


  • Blending
  • Crosshatching
  • Hatching
  • Stippling
• Blending


  The shading illusion is created by changing the color value little by little
• Crosshatching


  Creates the shading illusion by using crisscrossing lines
• Hatching


  Defines the shading by drawing thin lines that run in the same direction
• Stippling


  The shading illusion is created by means of a dot pattern
• Shading techniques


  • In the "Hands of the twelve years old Christ'' by Albrecht Durer, he employed various shading techniques from the striking crosshatching to the stippling technique
• Behind this drawing is Albrecht and Albert Durer's story
• Albrecht and Albert flipped a coin to determine which of them would follow his dreams while the other would work to support him for the time being. Albrecht ended up winning the toss
• To pay homage to Albert for all that he had sacrificed (smashed hands due to mining), Albrecht Durer painstakingly drew his brother's abused hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply "Hands," but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to his great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love "The Praying Hands."
• Drawing as one of the media visual arts creates the illusion of form through the shading technique or the use of light and dark values
• Medium of visual art

  • Acrylic
  • Drawing
  • Encaustic
  • Engraving
  • Etching
  • Fresco
  • Intaglio
  • Mosaic
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Stained Glass
  • Tempera
  • Watercolor
• Acrylic


  A medium in painting which uses paints
• Drawing


  The initial or fundamental sketch of painting