ART APRECIATION: ART
STUDY AND ELEMENTS OF
VISUAL ARTS
AESTHETICS OR ART APPRECIATION
• Art Appreciation is the
knowledge and understanding
of the universal and timeless
qualities that identify all great
art.
• Admire the artists
• Value highly different works
of art
• Appreciate the role of art in
society
ART HISTORY
• Art history is the
study of objects of art
in their historical
development and
stylistic contexts
(genre, design,
format, and style).
ART PRODUCTION
• Using creativity,
applying artistic
knowledge and
skills in producing
own works of art.
ART CRITICISM
• Art criticism is responding to,
interpreting meaning, and making critical
judgments about specific works of art.
• Art critics help viewers perceive,
interpret, and judge artworks.
• Art criticism is the discussion or
evaluation of art.
• Various movements has resulted in a
division of art criticism into different
disciplines which may each use different
criteria for their judgments.
• GOAL: the pursuit of a rational basis for
art appreciation
ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ARTS
LINES
• line is considered to be a moving dot. It has
an endless number of uses in the creation of
art.
• Line can control an viewer's eye. It can
describe edges. It can indicate form as well
as movement. It can also indicate value and
a light source in drawing.
• Foundation of drawing
• Series of connected dots or prolongation of
a point
• Suggest shape, pattern, form, structure,
growth, depth, distance, rhythm, movement
and a range of emotions
• Can be Two-or three-dimensional
Vertical lines
• straight up and down
lines that are moving in
space without any slant
and are perpendicular to
horizontal lines. They
suggest height and
strength because they
extend towards the sky
and seem unshakeable.
Horizontal lines
• straight lines
parallel to the
horizon that move
from left to right.
They suggest
width, distance,
calmness, and
stability.
Diagonal lines
• straight lines that
slant in any direction
except horizontal or
vertical. When in use,
they suggest
movement or lack of
stability.
Zigzag lines
• a series of diagonal
lines joined at ends.
They can convey
action and
excitement, as well as
restlessness and
anxiety.
Curved lines
• lines that bend and
change direction
gradually. They can be
simply wavy or spiral.
Such lines convey the
feelings of comfort and
ease, as well as sensual
quality as they remind
us of the human body.
Continuous lines
• The line in a continuous
line drawing is unbroken
from the beginning to the
end. The drawing
implement stays in
uninterrupted contact with
the surface of the paper
during the entire length of
the drawing.
• Jasper Johns's charcoal
drawing 0 through 9 is an
example of this technique.
Broken lines
• a discontinuous line or
series
of line segments, as a
series of dashes, or a
figure made up
of line segments
meeting at oblique
angles.
• Maybe a series of long
or short line
Freehand lines
• Freehand lines is when
the artist don’t use any
sort of utensil to make
marks without the use or
aid of guides such as
rulers, protractor, or
even projectors and
other tracing materials.
• personal energy and
mood of the artist
Mechanical lines
• used in informational
drawings, such as
blueprints, engineering
diagrams, Maps, etc.
• They are using materials
to perfect the line like
ruler, protractor,
measuring tape,
• Perfection
COLOR
• characteristic of visual
perception described
through color
categories
• Most important and
noticeable element in
art
• Classified into:
primary, secondary,
and intermediate
ARE WHITE,GRAY AND BLACK A
COLOR?
• If color is solely describe in the way of physics describes it,
the visible spectrum of light waves, then black gray and
white are outcasts and don't count as true, physical colors.
Colors like white are not present in the spectrum because
they are the result of our eyes' mixing wavelengths of light.
• Black is the absence of light. Unlike white and other hues,
pure black can exist in nature without any light at all. Some
consider white to be a color, because white light
comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. ... But in a
technical sense, black and white are not colors
• Black is the absent of light then White is the present.
• Gray is a neutral color or achromatic color, meaning
literally that it is a color "without color", because it can be
composed of black and white.
Art Color Terms Definitions: Hue, Tint, Shade, Tone
What are hues?
• Hues: Hues describe a pure color that is
found on the color wheel and has had
nothing added to it to change its properties
Tint Definition in Art
• Tints: What is a tint in art? Tints are
created when white is added to any hue on
the color wheel. This process lightens and
desaturates the hue.
Art Color Terms Definitions: Hue, Tint, Shade, Tone
Color Tone Terminology
• Tones: Tones are created when grey is
added to a color.
Shade Color Definition
• Shades: Shades are created when black is
added to any hue found on the color
wheel. This process darkens the hue and
creates a more intense color.
COLOR WHEEL
• The color wheel was
invented in 1666 by
Isaac Newton, who
mapped the color
spectrum onto a circle.
The color wheel is the
basis of color theory,
because it shows the
relationship between
colors.
COLOR WHEEL
• PRIMARY COLORS:
RED, YELLOW, BLUE
• SECONDARY COLOR:
MIXTURE OF PRIMARY
COLOR, ORANGE,
PURPLE, GREEN
• TERTIARY COLOR,
MISTURE OF PRIMARY
COLOR AND
SECONDARY COLOR:
SHAPE
• Two-dimensional:
limited to height and
width or flat
• Two categories:
geometric and organic
• GEOMETRIC SHAPE:
Clear edges and
manmade
• ORGANIC SHAPE:
FREE FLOW AND
FOUND IN NATURE
FORM
• Overall composition of
the artwork: color,
shape, contrast and
dimension
• Could also refer to as a
three dimensional
object (3D shapes)
TEXTURE
• Sense of touch
• Smooth or rough,
Hard or soft, fine or
coarse, glossy or dull,
regular or irregular
• Dependent on
medium or material
he uses
SPACE
• Area or
surface
occupied by
artwork
PERSPECTIVE
• Point of view; angle of vision; frame of reference
• Technique used to represent a three-
dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface
to look realistic
• Two types: one-point perspective and two-point
perspective
• One-point perspective when
it contains only one
vanishing point on the
horizon line. This type of
perspective is typically used
for images of roads, railway
tracks, hallways, or
buildings viewed so that the
front is directly facing the
viewer.
• Two-point perspective, the
view is from the corner and
the sides recede toward two
