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• Composition in space

  • This refers to structure or the manner the artist uses or arranges the element of the artwork in an area, and how these components relate to each other.
• Color

  • This refers to visible light as it reflected from surfaces.
  • Associated with our experiences of cold and warmth, and the quality of light in our tropical environment, the cycles of night and day, of darkness and light.
• Line

  • An identifiable path that moves from one point to another. It may be visible or implied, and can go in any direction (straight or curved).
  • Most basic two-dimensional form.
• Chiaroscuro

  • From the Italian word “light-dark” the term originated from the Renaissance.
  • Refers to the management of light and dark tones and/or shading, to “model” or create illusion of form and depth. 
• Non-figurative

  • Representational art that excludes human forms.
• Expressionist

  • An artistic style that reflects the inner emotional and/or psychological state of the creator--particularly of angst--instead of relying in naturalistic techniques, regardless of the subject.
• Texture

  • Refers to how objects and surfaces feel, and is most associated with the sense of touch or tactility.
• Value or tone

  • Describes the brightness in color; how dark or light it is.
• Movement

  • This may occur in two-dimensional design. The eye’s perception of directional action.
• Shape

  • Refers to forms that are two-dimesional or three-dimensional. 
• Two-dimensional shapes

  • Exist a planes having length and width.
• Three-dimensional shapes

  • Possess length, width, and volume.
• Napoleon Abueva

  • uses metal, wood, stone, clay, and glass
  • Pottery, Oblation, Bulul, Santos
  • Transifuration (1979)

  
• Julie Lluch

  • an artist from Iligan City, emphasizes her Female Identity and personal experiences in many of her terracotta works.
  • Picasso and Me (1985)

  
• Elito Circa - Known to use own blood and hair for his artworks
• Red is a very strong color. It is a noticeable color that is often used on caution and warning signs. It is often associated with "stop" or “beware”. It’s a hot color that evokes a powerful emotion of passion, lust, sex, energy, blood and war.
• Blue is a cool calming color that shows creativity and intelligence. It is a popular color among large corporations, hospitals and airlines. It is a color of loyalty, strength, wisdom and trust.
• Orange is a combination of Red and Yellow. It is also a bright and warm color. It represents fire, the sun, fun, warmth and tropical images.
• Yellow is the brightest color to the human eye. It represents youth, fun, happiness, sunshine and other light playful feelings. It is a cheerful energetic color.
• Green is the color of nature and health. It represents growth, nature, money, fertility and safety. Green is a relaxing color that is easy on the eye and has a healing power to it.
• Representational element - a category of art that possesses or represents existing forms and are identifiable as the shapes they stand for.
• Non-representational- A category of arts that uses forms that do not stand for extant objects or are rendered in a way that they are not identifiable with its basis.
• Figurative - Representation art that includes human or human-like forms.
• Biomorphic - Stylized and abstract shapes can be seen in local textiles. The geometric shapes of the binakol by the Tinggians of Abra, Northern Philippines.
• Abstract - an artistic style that does not rely on representation for its imagery but uses elements of art such as line, color, etc.
• Stylized - this generally applies to visual representation that does not conform to a naturalistic look or attempt to mimic the appearance of things as they are in real life, but retain a certain degree of semblance to the object portrayed.
• Collage - a technique that composes imagery through the combination of various materials adhered to a single flat surface, to be treated as a unified whole.
• Humans process information through perception– when senses pick up external stimuli and cognition—recognizing and understanding what is perceived; after which,an individual may have internal or external responses. Why we react to these artistic elements in predictable ways maybe explained by three theories:

  1. Physical factors
  2. Psychophysical experiences
  3. Social conventions
• Physical factors - Are biologically hardwired and correspond to the structure of the human body; in visual art, the eye is particularly important. The eye can only process red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, etc.
• Psychophysical experiences - Based on our experiences, we relate specific attributes and react parallel to how we will consciously or subconsciously react to real objects that have these features.
• Social conventions

  • Meanings, sometimes not necessarily related to the subject in nature, are attached to forms or images and then the associations are passed down within societies with the same culture.
• Medium is defined as the material, or the substance out of which a work is made. Through these materials, the artists express and communicate feelings and ideas.
• Sculptures fall within the category of three-dimensional" arts.
• "TERRACOTTA" - italian "baked earth"

  • a type of earthenware ceramic that employ distinct orangish or reddish-brown clay.
• Fernando Amorsolo painted Juan Luna
• Ryan Cayabyab was proclaimed National Artist of the philippines for music
• Levi Celerio

  • National Artist of the phil.
  • uses sound and then instruments (including the human voice) T'boli chanter sings creation stories in a way that is different from creation stories in a way that classical singers or pop music singers do.
• Alice Reyes

  • National artist for dance
• The Theater Artist - integrates all the arts and uses the stage production, design performance elements, and script to enable visuals, musical, dance and other aspects to come together as a whole work.
• T'nalak is a traditional cloth found in Mindanao island made by a group of people in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato called T'bolis, Tboli people.