Reviewer For GEE3 Fine Arts - Objects made by humans to

be enjoyed aesthetically
LESSON 1:
What does Art do?
• Art, like love, is difficult to define –
Sanchez, Abad and Jao (2011) - Primary purpose essential to
- Because art concerns itself most artistic disciplines is the
with “the communication of underlying intention to connect
certain ideas and feelings by with or appeal to human
means of sensuous medium” emotion
- There is NO single standard of
Art According to Plato
visual values that define what
- Arts are representational or art looks like
mimetic in nature – meaning
What makes art beautiful?
they imitate physical objects
(beautiful or meaningful) that - It is difficult to express what is
exist in the world. beautiful abour art because of
- Art as an expression is a belief lack of language
that art is created to reflect the - Beauty refers to anything that
inner state of the artist pleases the senses – the
interaction between line, color,
Art According to Merriam – Webster
texture, shape, motion and size
- Art is the conscious use of skill
Functions Of Arts
and creative imagination
especially in the production of Menoy, 2009
aesthetic objects.
• Art also serve several functions
Art – came from the latin word “ars” and which are item outcome to its
Greek word “techne” both of which mean purpose, namely:
skill

- Means that art is a skill

1. Individual Function – The artists
resulting from learning and
perform arts because of the
practice.
passion their respective art forms.
Philosophy of Arts – The study of the 2. Social Function – Man associates
nature of art, including concepts such as with others through his art
interpretation, representation and performance that arouses social
expression, and form consciousness
3. Economic Function – Arts are
emerging as a potent force in the
 economic life of people assumes LESSON 2:
an essential role as a direct and
indirect contributor to state
economies Visual Arts – a form of art. It is an art form
4. Political Function – Art provides a that is seen
forum for ideas that will lead to
Reading Visual Arts – it is the ability to
employment, prestige, status and
read, realize, and critique works of visual
power
arts
5. Historical Function – Art is an
essential technique for
information to be recorded and
Purpose of Reading Visual Arts
preserved
6. Cultural Function – Art is an • Ceremonial Purpose – some
articulation and transmission of visual arts used to celebrate an
new information and values event, a season, or an era. These
7. Physical Function – Buildings are are used to celebrate something
artistically designed and significant in terms of worship or
constructed to protect their culture
occupants and make their life • Artistic Purpose – Some visual
inside more meaningful arts are used for self-expression.
8. Aesthetic Function – Any artwork Arts can convey emotions,
means beauty experiences, and ideas.
• Narrative Purpose – These are
used to illustrate and describe the
Defining Visual Arts experiences and communicate
ideas
1. Visual Arts – those forms that
• Functional Visual – some visual
create works which are primarily
arts are used to beautify things
visual
that can be used in everyday life
2. Performing Arts – those forms in
which the artist used his/her own • Persuasive Arts – some visual arts
body, face, and presence as a used to promote philosophies,
products, ideas, ideologies, goals,
medium
and designs
3. Literary Arts – centered on
creative writing and other • Conveyance of Beauty – some
composition processes which visual arts represent beauty for its
intented to read own sake
 Why do we need to study art? 6. Increases creativity – art and
creativity go hand in hand with one
• To develop self-exploration and
another
self-expression
7. It makes people happy when
• To understand varied cultures
they create
• To develop strong analytical
8. Vital to human development
abilities
9. It makes drab places look
• To develop better interpersonal amazing – art can take to the most
and intrapersonal skills unpleasant looking places and
• To enhance communication skills turn it into an awe-inspiring work
• To develop higher order skills of creativity
• To help in conceptualizing, 10. It’s good for the economy
problem-solving and critical
thinking
• To develop self-discipline LESSON 4:
• To adapt and be creative
ELEMENTS OF ARTS – The elements of
art are the building blocks of art.

LESSON 3: A. Color
1. Hue – refers to the actual
Importance of Arts
colors of painting
1. It’s natural human behavior – art 2. Saturation – refers to the purity
is important because it’s no of a color in relation to its
different than why you need food appearance in the color
to live, why we laugh, or thy it feels spectrum
good to be loved. 3. Value – refers to the lightness
2. It’s a language - A picture is worth and darkness of a color
a thousand words B. Line
3. Art tells a story - art is important 1. Curved line
because it’s a way of documenting 2. Straight line
and preserving our history 3. Thick line
4. Therapeutic - art is a great way to 4. Thin line
calm yourself and decrease stress 5. Horizontal line
levels 6. Zigzag line
5. Evoke emotions from people – art 7. Spiral line
is important because it has the 8. Diagonal line
power to move people and 9. Doted line
sometimes an entire nation.
C. Space • Emphasis – where the artist has
1. Positive space – refers to the created a sense of interest
area of the composition that • Contrast – how the artist arranged
the subject occupies the opposite elements in the piece
2. Negative space – refers to an • Harmony – artwork comes
empty open space that together in a unified way, not
surrounds the object motony and not chaos
D. Shape – it is the result of closed • Variety – concerned with diversity
lines, either two-dimensional lines or contrast, brought about by using
or flat lines different colors, sizes, and shapes
E. Form – it is the overall form taken in a work of art
by the artwork; the physical nature • Movement - used to create the
of work of art look and feel of action in an
F. Texture – it is the way art is felt by artwork
touching and seeing • Proportion – pertains to the size,
G. Value – it is the gradual change of scale, and arrangement of various
color from lightness to darkness components and influenced by the
overall composition and the space
within the artwork.
LESSON 5:

PRINCIPLES OF ART

• Pattern – refers to the repetition of

a particular design element.
• Balance – the way an artist
combines with the different
elements of art to create visual
stability and equilibrium within the
work.
MOST COMMON TYPES OF
BALANCE
1. Symmetrical and
Asymmetrical
2. Radial Symmetry – refers to a
piece with different elements
placed around a central point
in a circular pattern