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The document discusses the various functions of art, including physical, social, and personal functions, highlighting how art serves practical purposes, influences collective behavior, and expresses individual feelings. It also outlines key elements of art such as color, value, texture, shape, line, form, and space, as well as principles of art like rhythm, balance, emphasis, proportion, gradation, harmony, variety, and movement. These concepts are essential for understanding the impact and structure of artistic works.

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The document discusses the various functions of art, including physical, social, and personal functions, highlighting how art serves practical purposes, influences collective behavior, and expresses individual feelings. It also outlines key elements of art such as color, value, texture, shape, line, form, and space, as well as principles of art like rhythm, balance, emphasis, proportion, gradation, harmony, variety, and movement. These concepts are essential for understanding the impact and structure of artistic works.

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Angelica A.

David
BSA 1
Art Appreciation
Assignment no. 1

The Functions of Arts


Physical function
Art with a physical function usually relates to items that can be used for a practical purpose
because of their physical structure, despite their artistic appeal. Architecture, any of the crafts, and
industrial design are all types of art that have physical functions.
Social function
It addresses aspects of life (collective) life, as opposed to one person's point of view or
experience. Art has a social function when it aims to affect people's collective behavior, it is
designed to be viewed or used mostly in public settings, and in contrast to private and personal
experiences, it expresses or describes societal or communal aspects of existence.
Personal function
Arts are driving tool for the artists’ expression of their feelings and ideas. It also serves as means
of expression for us. Art is a personal function when it educates and sharpens our perception of
color, forms, textures, designs, sounds, rhythms, and harmonies in our surroundings. It provides
us with new insights into nature and human nature, allowing us to get a deeper understanding of
ourselves and the world around us.
An artist may make a work for the sake of self-expression or enjoyment. They may also, or
instead, wish to convey a thought or point to the audience. Sometimes an artist's sole intention is
to deliver an aesthetic experience for both the artist and the audience. A composition may be
intended to entertain, encourage thought, or have no effect at all.

Elements of Arts
Color
Because of the combinations and variations inherent in its application, color is the most difficult
creative element. Humans react differently to diverse color combinations, and painter study and
use color to help shape their work. Color is essential in many genres of art. Its significance, use,
and purpose in a given work are determined by the medium of that work. Some of the main
aspects of color include the color wheel, different color schemes, primary, secondary, and tertiary
colors, complementary and analogous colors, hues, tones, tints, shades, saturation/intensity,
value, and color temperature.
Value
The value (or tone) of a form is its relative lightness or darkness in comparison to another. The
value scale, which is bounded on one end by pure white and on the other by black, with a
sequence of progressively darker shades of grey in between, provides an artist with the means to
create these alterations. The value scale below depicts the standard tonal differences.

Texture
The "surface quality" of artworks, which can be genuine or inferred, is referred to here.

Shape
Shapes can be square, circular, triangular, or rectangular, and they can be two-dimensional,
geometric, or organic.

Line
A line is a distinct route formed by a moving point in space. There are different types of lines –
horizontal, vertical, diagonal, short, long, curved, or zig-zag, which all can be applied to form a
fundamental structure of an artwork and provides different effects like movement, rhythm, or
emphasis.
Form
These range from cubic, spherical, pyramidal, or conical, among many others, and it is three-
dimensional, and can be geometric or organic.

Space
This refers to the three-dimensionality or depth created in a composition, and it is made up of
positive and negative space, which can be used to achieve various effects.

Principles of Arts
Rhythm
A design principle that signifies mobility, developed by placing recurring parts in a piece with
care the use of art to create a visual pace or beat.
Balance
Balance is a method of blending things to create a sense of harmony. A work of art's equilibrium
or stability. The most common types are symmetrical and asymmetrical.

Emphasis (contrast)
It is a method of mixing materials to emphasize disparities between those parts.

Proportion
It is a principle of design that refers to the relationship of certain elements to the whole and to
each other.

Gradation
Gradation is a method of integrating materials by employing a sequence ofchanges in those
elements occur gradually. (big forms to tiny shapes, dark to light hues).

Harmony
Harmony is a technique for merging comparable parts in an artwork to emphasize their
similarities (achieved through the usage of repetitions and gradual, subtle adjustments)

Variety
A design approach concerned with variety or contrast. Using varied shapes creates variety such
as sizes, and/or colors in a work of art.

Harmony
It is a technique for merging comparable parts in an artwork to emphasize their similarities
(achieved through the usage of
repetitions and gradual, subtle adjustments)

Movement
It is a design principle that is utilized to create the look and feel. It is an activity and to direct the
viewer's gaze throughout the work of art.

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