Larra Marie Pagcaliwagan Important tool to identify which colors can
STEM 3 work well if used in a certain artwork.
Those sets of colors are referred to as color
PART I – CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS IN THE schemes or color relationships
PHILIPPINES
Color Schemes
1. Monochromatic
LESSON 1: ART AND ITS VISUAL ELEMENTS
- Uses the same hue but with different
gradients of value
Line
2. Analogous
prolongation of a point, or a mark on a
- The use of three or four adjacent colors in
surface
the color wheel
Solid lines – define a form
3. Complementary
Broken lines – suggest hidden forms
- Involves the use of a color and its
complement, meaning the color located
Shape and Mass
opposite of the first color
an area with boundaries identified or drawn
4. Triadic
using lines
- This color scheme uses three colors that
two-dimensional
are of equal distance with each other
Organic shape - shape that is based on natural or
5. Tetradic
living forms
- Double complementary color scheme
Geometric shape – based on measured forms
- Uses 2 pairs of complementary colors
Mass – solid portions of a three-dimensional
object
Value
Refers to lightness or darkness of an area
Color
Evident in creating shadows for a 2D object
Visual perception that allows a person to
to give an illusion of depth
differentiate objects due to the way various
wavelengths of light are reflected.
Texture
o Three properties of color: Feel or appearance of a surface
1. Hue Smooth or rough
- refers to the basic or pure color, and is Actual texture can be felt tangibly based
represented in the color wheel on the material that is used for the artwork
2. Value Implied texture can be exhibited, for
- refers to the lightness or darkness of color instance, in a painting of fur of an animal
- light color or tint is the result of adding
white to a hue Space
- dark color or shade results from adding - Area that is occupied by an object or a
black to hue subject, as well as the area surrounding
3. Saturation that object or subject
- Refers to the darkness and dullness of 2 types of perspective:
color 1. Atmospheric perspective – utilizes the
- Purity of a color properties of light and air in depicting the
- Bright color can be produced by adding illusion of distance
more pigment to the same hue 2. Linear perspective – involves the use of
- Dull color can be produced by adding gray vanishing points and receding hidden lines
or the color’s complement to the pigment
Time and Motion
Color wheel Illusion of movement – more common in
Arrangement of primary, secondary, and tw0-dimensional artworks
tertiary colors
Actual motion – easily seen in kinetic THEMES OF PAINTING
sculpture, a type of sculpture that moves Genre Painting
with the wind or are vibrating with the Portrays people in daily activities
surrounding air Folk genre - mainly focuses on the
everyday activities of the folk
Folk-naïve – uses of a lot of color and
LESSON 2: PAINTING spontaneity. This was inspired by
children’s art
Painting
Process of applying color on a flat surface. Historical Painting
Two-dimensional, it only has height and - Depicts a scene from the past
width - Often has a lesson concerning national
values
FORMS OF PAINTING
Easel Painting Interiors
Most common form of painting Painting of the space inside of a part of a
Involves applying color to a board or house or a building
canvass that is fixed on an upright support Usually reveals the social class and the
called an easel traits of the people living in it
Meant to be framed and hanged on a wall
after creating them Landscapes
Portray natural scenery or urban scenes
Murals
Described as a huge wall—sized painting Portraits
Portable mural was developed in order to A painting portraying one or more specific
prevent the mural from being erased from individuals
the wall. Usually portrays the physical
Portable mural was created by using bold characteristics of the subject and seeks to
strokes in applying bright colors on pieces show an understanding of that person’s
of cheesecloth or canvas character
Telon painting Nudes
Telon Portray the unclothed human figure
- backdrop or background for the stage
- used for komedya, sarswela, and sinakulo Religious painting
Jeepney and Calesa Painting Its common subjects include a lone
Calesa religious image, lives of the saints, scenes
- Typically painted using one color based from the Scriptures like the Nativity
- Its borders are decorated with geometric scene, and the Stations of the Cross
patterns, repetitive patterns, and/or thin
lines Still life
Jeepney painting Painting that depicts natural or man-made
- evolved from calesa painting objects that form a composition in a
- its typical subject matter ranges from natural setting
landscapes to scenes from comic books Artists: Ang Kiukok, Federico Aguilar
Collage Alcuaz, and Manuel Baldemor
Refers to a form of painting that involves
combine images in a single artwork
Entails cutting and pasting materials onto a
board or canvass
