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Art Appreciation Prelim Reviewer

The document discusses the field of humanities and defines art as a skill or craft used for human expression. It outlines different art genres such as visual arts, audio-visual arts, and literary arts. It also discusses the functions, subjects, forms, principles, and mediums of art. Specifically, it details different painting mediums like acrylic, encaustic, tempera, fresco, oil, and watercolor. It provides examples of visual art forms like drawing, mosaic, stained glass, tapestry, printing, and sculpture. The document also covers performing arts like music, dance, and literature.

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Art Appreciation Prelim Reviewer

The document discusses the field of humanities and defines art as a skill or craft used for human expression. It outlines different art genres such as visual arts, audio-visual arts, and literary arts. It also discusses the functions, subjects, forms, principles, and mediums of art. Specifically, it details different painting mediums like acrylic, encaustic, tempera, fresco, oil, and watercolor. It provides examples of visual art forms like drawing, mosaic, stained glass, tapestry, printing, and sculpture. The document also covers performing arts like music, dance, and literature.

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Lesson 1 o Acrylic – color, water, oil, moderate

Humanities – came from the word “humanus” which means o Encaustic – color and wax, commonly used by
human, the field aims to become human through fine arts Egyptians in sarcophagus
Art - "ars" means skill or craft, human ingenuity in adapting
things in man's use, expression of ideas and feelings, anything Drawing - the art or technique of producing images on a
that is produced through skill surface, usually paper, by means of marks, usually
Art Genres of ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon.
o Visual arts – graphic (2D) and plastic (3D)
o Audio-Visual Arts Mosaic – could be additive sculpture but applied in a flat surface
o Literary Arts
o Combined Arts Stained glass – baroque and gothic period
Function of Art
o Aesthetic function – beauty Tapestry – cross stitch for royalties
o Social function – society, socialization
o Utilitarian function – all goods, comfort Printing – Johannes Gutenberg, the one who introduced
o Cultural function – extension of our culture, preservation printing press, a duplication process
Subject of Art In Japan, it started as fish painting
o Representational art – represents something or someone
o Non-objective art – abstract or self-interpretation Sculpture – 3D
Scope of Art Mediums of Sculpture
o Fine arts – aesthetics o Stone – hard and brittle, oldest medium
o Practical arts – useful o Granite – igneous rock, golden age of Greek civilization
Forms of Art o Marble – crystal-like, Hellenic period, Greek and roman
o Plastic art o Clay – squishy, used for molding
o Phonetics art – sounds and music o Wood – cheapest
o Kinesthetic/Kinetic art – body movement and dance o Metal
o Pure art – sound and body movement  Copper
o Mixed art  Bronze – copper + tin
Principles of art  Brass – copper +zinc
o Harmony – combination of all elements  Iron – used by Hittites or metal workers
o Balance – formal (bilateral and radial) and informal  Silver
o Rhythm – consecutive pattern  Gold
o Proportion – relative size
o Emphasis- most important element Lesson 3
Performing Arts
Lesson 2 Music
Medium – from Latin word “Medius” which means middle and - Vocal music (male and female)
can be material or non-material - Instrumental music (string, percussion, wind, keyboard
- Ensemble (orchestra, rondalia, band)
Painting – color (idea) – pigment (medium itself), art of applying - Mundane (cosmos)
pigment into a flat surface to represent a subject - Mixed music – vocal and instrumental
Dancing
- Body movements and music, gesture, steps, facial expression
Some examples of pigment Literature
o Tempera – ground pigment with egg white or egg yolk - Essay
o Fresco - “Fresh”, earth pigment, ex. Spoliarium by Juan - Novel
Luna - Novelette (ex. Precious hearts romance)
o Oil – linseed oil - Poem
o Watercolor – least durable and cheap, impressionism - Dramatic poetry (intended to be performed)
Movements or ways on how to represent the subject Literature
- Realism Prose
- Abstractionism (mangling – lacerated part or cut, elongation, 1. Characters
distortion – misshaped, cubism – Pablo Picasso, geometric 2. Plot
figures, abstract expressionism) 3. Settings
- Surrealism – dreams, beyond realism 4. Theme/Genre
- Fauvism – bright colors 5. Mood
- Dadaism – dark colors, anti-art 6. Conflict
- Symbolic Poetry
- Impressionism – smooth color with bright color 1. Measure (vertical and horizontal)
- Expressionism – dark color 2. Rhythm
- Futurism 3. Rhyme
- Pop-art – modern art or cartoons 4. Imagery
5. Figure of speech
Lesson 4
Visual Arts Drama – film, playwright, stage play
- Space
- Shape
- Color
- Volume
- Line
- Form

Audio-visual Arts
Dance
- Dancer
- Choreographer
- Movement
- Theme
- Message
- Costume/props or property
- Technique

Music
1. Pitch - highness or lowness of tone
2. Volume - loudness and softness of tone
3. Tempo - speed of the music
4. Duration - length of time
5. Timbre - quality tone
6. Rhythm - pattern
7. Harmony - combination or blending of two or more tones
8. Melody - consecutive movement of tone or more tones
9. Texture - number of tones
o Monophonic - 1 tone
o Polyphonic - 2 or more tones
o Homophonic - 2 or more tones with same medium
10. Form - combination of all elements

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