ART

• Art is creation
• Creating something new, something original and
something different. Art is life. It is creating life
on a material and making inanimate objects to
have life. To create art is to give life.
Contemporary
-Current
-Now
-The present
 Contemporary Art
• “Art made and produced by artists
living today.”
 Pre-Colonial Arts (Ethnic Arts)
• In Pre-Colonial Philippine
Arts- arts are for ritual
purposes or for
everyday use.
 Islamic Arts
• Islamic art are
characterized
by geometric designs and
patterns eliciting focus from
the believers
 Spanish Era
• Art became a hand
maiden of religion, serving
to propagate the Catholic
faith and thus support the
colonial order at the same
time.
 American Era
• In the America regime,
commercial and advertising
arts ere integrated into the
fine arts curriculum
 Japanese Era
• Since the Japanese
advocated for the culture of
East Asia, preference was
given to the indigenous art and
traditions of the Philippines.
This emphasized their
propaganda of Asia belonging
to Asians
 Modern Era
• Began after World War 2 and
the granting of Independence
Writers and artists posed the
question of National identity
as the main theme of various
Forms of art.
 Contemporary Art
• Philippine Contemporary Art
was an offshoot of social
Realism brought about by
Martial Law. Arts became
expression of people’s aspira-
tions for a just, free, and
Sovereign society
 Integrative Art as Applied to
Contemporary Art
• Definitions of Art
• Functions of Art
• Art Style and Factors Affecting Style
• Principles of Art
ART
 Why people engage in art?
• To earn money
• To express their emotions and thoughts, real or
imaginary
• To produce things of beauty and masterpieces
• To self-actualize
• To immortalize themselves
• To inform
• To persuade
• To entertain people
 Functions of Art
• Personal or individual function
• Social function
• Economic function
• Political function
• Historical function
• Cultural function
• Religious function
• Physical function
• Aesthetic function
Arts Styles and Factors Affecting Styles
• Geographical factors
• Historical factors
• Social factors
• Ideational factors
• Psychological factors
• Technical factors
 Principles of Art
• Harmony
• Balance
-informal balance
-formal balance
• Rhythm
• Proportion
• Emphasis
 HARMONY

• Most essential factor in a composition

• Also called UNITY
• Achieved when all the elements of a thing are
put together to come up with a coherent
whole
 BALANCE
• Known as physical equilibrium
• Stability produced by even distribution of
weight on each side of the thing
• Classified as formal and informal balance
 FORMAL BALANCE
• Exists if the weights at equal distance from the
center are equal
• Also called symmetrical balance
 FORMAL BALANCE
Radial Balance
• Radial symmetry exists when the same
measure occurs from the central point to the
end of every radius
• This symmetry applies to round objects or
those with radii like stars and starfishes
 INFORMAL BALANCE

• Informal balance is present when the left and

the right sides of the thing, though not
identical in appearance, still display an even
distribution of weight
• Also known as assymetrical or occult balance
 Rhythm
• Rhythm is the continuous use of a motif or
repetitive pattern of a succession of similar or
identical items.
• It can be achieved by alternation use of two
patterns alternately, radiation ( repetition of
motif from the center or toward it), progression
use of motifs of varying sizes, that is, from the
smallest to the largest or vice versa, or
parallelism use of pattern with an equal distance
from each other
 Rhythm
• Rhythm is exemplified by concentric circles, by
an alteration of black and white stripes, by
checkered blue and orange squares
• It is characterized as repetitive, continuous or
flowing
 Rhythm Radial
• Rhythm is exemplified by concentric circles, by
an alteration of black and white stripes, by
checkered blue and orange squares
• It is characterized as repetitive, continuous or
flowing
Rhythm Progression
 Proportion
• Comparative relationships of the different
parts in relation to the whole
• Proper and pleasing relationship of one object
with the others in a design
 Emphasis
• Giving proper importance on one or more
parts of the thing or the whole thing itself
• Achieved by means of size or proportion,
shape, color, line, position and variety
• More often than not, the artist emphasizes
the one with the bigger size or proportion, the
one with a different shape and color, the one
with striking lines, the one positioned at the
center and the one that is unique.
 Classification of Art Forms
• Visual Arts
Graphic Arts
Plastic Arts
• Audio-Visual Arts
• Literary Arts
 VISUAL ARTS
• Visual arts are those forms perceived by the
eyes
• Includes painting, sculptures and architecture
• Also called spacial arts because artworks
produced under this genre occupy space
 VISUAL ARTS
Graphic Arts
• Graphic Arts- that have length and width, thus
they are also called two-dimensional arts
• Described as flat arts because they are seen
on flat surfaces
• Examples: Printing, painting, drawing,
sketching, commercial art, mechanical
processes, computer graphics and
photography
 Plastic Arts
• Are those visual arts that have length, width
and volume; thus they are called three-
dimensional arts
• Examples; sculpture, architecture, landcape,
city planning design, set design, theater
design, industrial design, crafts and allied arts
 Audio-Visual Arts
• Are those forms perceived by both ears and
eyes.
• Also called performing arts
• Examples: Music (vocal, instrument and
mixed) Dance (ethnologic, social and
theatrical), and Drama (tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy, farce, melodrama, etc.)
 Literary Arts
• Are those presented in the written mode and
intended to be read
• Examples; Prose (short stories, novels, essays,
and plays), Poetry Narrative Poems, Lyric
Poems and Dramatic Poems
 Divisions of Art Study
• Aesthetic or art appreciation
• Art History
• Art production
• Art Criticism
 Aesthetic or Art Appreciation
• Aesthetics, the science of beauty, is that
division of art study in which the student
learns to admire the artists, value highly
different works of art and appreciate the role
of art in society
 Art History
• Division of art study in which student acquire
knowledge of the artists, their backgrounds,
their masterpieces, and their significant
contributions in various field of arts
 Art Production
• Division of art study in which the student
learns to use his creativity and apply his
artistic knowledge and skills in producing his
own works of art
 Art Criticism
• Disvision of art study in which the student
learns to use his judgement in evaluating
different artworks based on the criteria set
 INTEGRATIVE ART
• INTEGRATIVE ART- Refers to the use of art in
another disciplines, as in psychology
• CONTEMPORARY ART- art produced at the
present period in time. Contemporary art
includes and develops from, post modern art,
which is itself a successor to modern art.