THE

VISUAL
ARTS
• Define Visual Arts

• Enumerate different forms of the Visual Arts

• Identify the medium and techniques for each visual art

form

• Name famous artists for each art form in both the

international and local scene

• Create visual artwork with proper application of the

Principles of Design
Visual
• Technically are human’s creative activity that can be seen
and the delight the eyes (Regadio, C and Mendiza, J)

• Those who mediums can be seen and which occupy space

TWO CATEGORIES
The Two-Dimensional Arts

Painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography

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02
The Three-dimensional arts

Sculpture, architechture, landscaping, community planning, industrial design, and

the crafts like ceramics and furniture-making
 VISUAL ART FORMS: MEDIUM AND
TECHNIQUES

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
• Drawing
- Art or technique of producing images on a
surface, usually paper, by means of marks,
usually ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, or crayon

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
b. Painting
• Creative activity that employs or maximized
colors from organic substance like oil or
synthetic substance like acrylic, applying It to
various surfaces from rough to smooth, to
represent in real, distortion or abstraction of
an image, scene, landscaper any other subject
the artist wish to represent.

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
The mediums used in painting, for instance
are:
1. Fresco- pigment mixed with water and
applied to wet plaster.

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
2. Tempera- pigment is mixed with egg and
applied to a very hard smooth surface, usually
several layers of rubbed plaster (gesso)
 DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
3. Oil- one characteristic of oil painting is its
glossy product. It slowly dries, to give the
painter a chance to do some corrections of his
art

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
4. Enamel- use of vitreous substance fused by
heat to a metal, ceramic or glass

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
5. Encaustic- use of art colors combined with
heat-softened wax and resin

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
6. Water color- employs colored pigment
dissolved in water

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
7. Grisaille- exclusively employs gray scale
colors

DIFFERENT FORMS OF
VISUAL ART
8. Acrylic- the use of acrylic paint
 ART
ELEMENTS
OF A
PAINTING
• Distance
• Color
• Light
• Line
• Shapes
• Composition
• Perspective
• Symbols
Michaelangelo, “The Last Judgement,”
1536-1541

Religious officials spoke out against the fresco, for a number of

reasons, including the style with which Michelangelo painted Jesus
(beardless and in the Classic style of pagan mythology). But most
shocking of all were the painting’s 300 figures, mostly male and
mostly nude.

Marcel Duchamp “Fountain”

1917

submitted a porcelain urinal signed “R. Mutt 1917” as a “readymade”

sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists, a group known to
accept any artist who could come up with the fee‚ the unthinkable
happened: the piece was denied, even though Duchamp himself
was a cofounder and board member of the group.
 Caravaggio, “St. Matthew and the Angel,”
1602

Caravaggio flipped convention by using a poor peasant as a model for

the saint. But what upset critics the most were St. Matthew’s dirty
feet, which illusionistically seemed to jut from a canvas (a
recurring visual trick for the artist), and the way the image implied
him to be illiterate, as though being read to by an angel

Thomas Eakins, “The Gross Clinic,” 1875

Depiction of surgery was deemed too graphic, and the painting was
rejected by the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition (some blame the
doctor’s bloody hands, others argue it was the female figure
shielding her eyes that put it over the edge). However, a century
later, the painting has finally been recognized as one of the great
masterpieces of its time on both its artistic and scientific merits.

Andy Warhol,”Campbell’s Soup Cans,”

1962
His work explored the line between artistic expression, celebrity
culture, mass production, and mass media culture. His world-
famous 1962 silkscreen painting Campbell’s Soup Cans caused a
stir when exhibited in LA – some were intrigued, while many
dismissed it and were disdainful.

Edouard Manet, “Olympia”, 1863

The public was aghast by the unflattering manner in which Manet

painted her, the harsh lighting on her pale, rough skin, and the fact
that he laid bare the fact that she was a prostitute awaiting her next
client.

Pablo Picasso, “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon,” 1907

The women’s faces are composed to look like African masks; their
bodies are constructed from distorted shapes and hard angles; one
woman, already unladylike with her exaggerated features, squats in
the corner.

BRANCHES OF
HUMANITIES
• CINEMATOGRAPHY

• GRAPHIC ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY

• FASHION AND DESIGN

• FILM AND BROADCAST ART

• VISUAL ART

• MURAL

• HISTORICAL LITERATURE

ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

Why do you think that

designers of
curriculum include
the subject humanities
in your chosen field of
study?
 ART
OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE VISUAL ARTS PAINTING
AND SCULPTURE

IN MODERNS SENSE, IT IS EXTENDED TO OTHER

CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE HUMAN ACTIVITIES
WHICH INCLUDE EVEN THOSE THAT EMPLOY DIGITAL
AND HIGHLY TECHNICAL CREATIVE WORKS (CINEMA
AND PHOTOGRAPHY)

ART
IS THE CENTER OF CULTURE, ONCE A CULTURE IS
LOST ART IS ALSO LOST WITH IT

HERE ARE THREE IDEAS

Beauty is something that is beyond what eyes can see. Beauty is the value that
giver (artist) gives and the receiver (appreciator receives)

Art is a product of different materials or items put together. The is no beauty if

there is no harmony. There is no harmony if materials are not put together to meet
the purpose of the artists

Art is a combination of lines, forms and colors. They are the most basic elements
of visual arts

Art has beauty

Art has harmony

Art has technicalities

IMPORTANCE OF THE
ART
Art is the barometer that measures levels of cultural
sophistication

Art makes life more manageable, tolerable and enjoyable,

think of utilitarian items and places

Art forces humans to look beyond that which is necessary to

survive and leads people to create for the sake of expression
and meaning.
Art can communicate information, shape our everyday
lives, make a social statement and be enjoyed for
aesthetic beauty.

BASIC CONCEPTS
OF ART
THREE
ASSUMPTIONS OF
ART
• Art is universal
• Art is not nature
• Art involves experience
 THREE
PREREQUISITES
TO BECOME ART
• AUTHENTICITY
• AESTHETIC QUALITY
• MASTERY OF SKILL

COMPOSITION IN
ART
COMPOSITION IS THE ARRANGEMENT
OR PLACEMENT OF VISUAL ELEMENTS
IN A PIECE OF ARTWORK