Art app

• Kind of shapes

  • Rectilinear
  • Curvilinear
  • Irregular
• Shapes of Object


  Rectilinear
• Shapes of living things

  Curvilinear (biomorphic)
• Any possible shape


  Irregular
• Ways of making/producing a shape

  1. By the boundary of a line that closes into itself (polygon), in drawing
  2. By the boundary of color, in painting
  3. By the boundary of contour, in sculpture and architecture
• Substance or material out of which a work of art is made

  Media of Art
• Surface (Canvas), pigment (oil paint)

  Painting
• STone, wood, metal, and glass

  Sculpture / Architecture
• Human voice, musical instruments


  Music
• Motion of the human body

  Dance
• Written or oral language/language

  Literature
• Theater:Action and spoken language, FILM


  Drama
• Darkening the area on the SURFACE of the subject

  Shading
• Darkening the area on a RECEIVING surface

  Shadowing
• Application of light and dark...enhances the shape of a figure

  Chiaroscuro
• Smokey effect...creates sense of mystery

  Sfumato
• Elements of Visual Art

  1. Point - most BASIC visual element
  2. Line - one dimensional. a path of moving point, or points in a series
  3. Shapes - edges of an object
  4. Value - application of light and dark IN A PAINTING
  5. Texture - sense of touch
  6. Color - most BEAUTIFUL visual element; produced by light striking a surface
• distinguishes one color from the other

  Hue
• lightness and darkness OF A COLOR


  Value
• ADDING WHITE to a color

  Tint
• ADDING BLACK to a color

  Shade
• Intensity of color...differs from white


  Saturation
• Elements of Art

  • Painting - VISUAL: values, texture
  • Sculpture/Architecture - FORMAL: color, space; FUNCTIONAL: roof, wall, floor
  • Music - AUDITORY: Rhythm, tempo
  • Dance - KINESTHETIC: Body, action
  • Literature - LITERARY: Character, theme, plot
  • Drama - PERFOMATIVE: Actors, acts, script, scene
• Man is Spiritual


  Circle
• Material


  Square
• Mystical


  Triangle
• Supernatural


  Star/polygon
• Perfect Proportion of Man According to Marco Vitruvius

  • The length of the outspread arms is equal to the height of a man.
  • From the breasts to the top of the head is a 1/4 of the height of a man.
  • The length of the hand is 1/10 of the height of a man.
  • The root of the penis is at half the height of a man.
  • The foot is 1/7 of the height of a man.
• Mathematical Structure of Music

  Auditory Elements:

  • Rhythm - LENGTH : longness and shortness of tones
  • Pitch - HEIGHT: Highness and Lowness of tones
  • Dynamics - VOLUME: Loudness and softness of tones
  • Tempo - SPEED: fastness and slowness
  • Tone - SOUND OF MUSIC
  • Note - Written note
• Cultural Relativism

  Every culture has its perception and concept of beauty
• Cultural Standard of Beauty


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• A mursi woman, wears plate in her lower lip

  determines her beauty and acceptance in her society

  Suri people in Africa
• has a long neck with spiral wings

  determines her beauty in society

  Padaung people in Myanmar
• foot binding

  determines beauty and status in society


  Chinese people (China before 1917)
• Basic concepts in Hindu life and religion


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• Laws of life

  • Samsara - Law of Reincarnation
  • Karma - Law of CAUSE and EFFECT
• Goals of life

  • Dharma - DUTY to family and society
  • Artha - WEALTH
  • Kama - experience of PLEASURE
  • Moksha - SPIRITUAL RELEASE (orgasm)
• Kama Sutra, 400-200 BC compiled by VAtsyayana, 200 AD


  Kama - "desire" or "pleasure"

  Sutra - "String" or "Thread", metaphorically " a collection of aphorism that form a manual or text"
• Psychology of perception


  Gestalt
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

  Law of Simplicity/PRAGNANZ