1 LESSON TITLE: BASIC CONCEPT OF ARTS  Controlling its viewers.

 Perform religious service or

WHAT IS ART acknowledgement.
 Stir the emotion that you entitled to enjoy. SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
 Work of art.  Seek or tends to influence the collective
 ARS: skill or craft. behavior of a people.
 Express the author’s imaginative or technical  INCLUDES: festive occasions, parades, dances,
skills. uniforms, holidays, and events.
 Appreciated for their beauty and emotional SPIRITUAL FUNCTIONS
power.  Hymn used in worship services.
 The product of a body of knowledge, most  Portraits of SAINT.
often using a set of skills. EDUCATIONAL FUNCTIONS
INCLUDE:  Teach or to share information.
 Drawing  Time off for good behavior or as THERAPHY.
 Painting  Bring joy and a sense of calmness.
 Sculpting  Boost child self-image.
 Photography POLITICAL FUNCTIONS
 Dance  Commemoration of important personages in
 Music society.
 Poetry  Statues of national heroes
 Prose  Commissioned paintings.
 Theatre. PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS
 FORM OF FUNCTION: chair
THREE CONCEPTS OF ARTS  ARCHITECTURE: building
1. VISUAL ART  COMMUNITY PLANNING: proper land.
 eye and evoke emotion through an expression  Objects make our lives physically comfortable.
of skill and imagination.
EXAMPLE: drawing, filmmaking, and painting.
2. LITERARY ART 3 LESSON TITLE: HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
 form or writing or stories.
 Beauty of speech HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF ARTS
 Language to convey certain meanings.  Humans have been capable of wielding tools
EXAMPLE: fiction, drama, and prose. to express themselves.
3. PERFORMANCE ART  Spans thousands of years, from cave painting
A live presentation to an audience or to onlookers. to World War II-ERA.
EXAMPLE: acting and dance.
STONE AGES (30,000 BC – 2500 BC)
 Era of cave painting.
 170,000 years.
2 LESSON TITLE: NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF ARTS  VENUS (OR WOMAN) OF WELLENDORF: small
NATURE OF ART statuette of a feminine figure.
 Creative activity MESOPOTAMIAN (3500 BC -539 BC)
 Expresses imaginative or technical skill.  All thriving empire.
 Product/ an object.  Stone sculptures and narrative reliefs.
EGYPTIAN (3100 BC – 30 BC)
CLASSIFICATION OF ARTS ACCORDING TO FUNCTIONS  Great pyramids.
MOTIVATED (FUNCTIONAL)  Busts and statues of royal figures.
 Intentional.  Own unique artistic periods.
 Conscious action on the part of the artist or  EGYPTIAN ART: a huge umbrella term for an
creator. entire culture.
NON-MOTIVATED (NON-FUNCTIONAL) GREEK AND HELLENISTIC 850 BC – 31 BC)
 Do not fulfill a specific external purpose.  Idealism and perfection.
 Architecture and sculptures.
THE COMMON FUNCTIONS OF ART  ATHENA: goddess of wisdom and warfare.
PERSONAL FUNCTIONS  Parthenon exists as a symbol of Athenian
 Therapeutic value democracy.
 Expression of their feelings and ideas.  INVENTED: doric, ionic, and Corinthian.
ROMAN (500 BC – 31 BC)  NOTABLE: Rousseau, Toulouse-Lautrec, and
 History of roman art course. Van Gogh.
 Construction of the pantheon: temple to all FAUVISM AND EXPRESSIONISM (1900 – 1935)
roman GODS.  Products of wartime.
 COLOSSEUM: classic buildings.  First world-war
BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC (476 AD – 1453 AD)  Disturbing emotional content
 Birth of the ISLAMIC RELIGION.  Course on oil or acrylic painting.
 STRUCTURES: hagia Sophia and Alhambra.  DISTURBING WORK: Edvard munch and Egon
MIDDLE AGES (500 – 1400) Schiele.
 ERA: Celtic and gothic art CUBISM, FUTURISM, SUPREMATIVISM,
 Rise of intricate gothic cathedrals and CONSTRUCTTIVISM, DE STIJL (1905 – 1920)
structures like NOTRE DAME.  Explorations of numerous expressionistic
 Dark era styles.
 Black death and crusades  Capture realistic images of people or beautiful
 Dark, looming, and religious. scenery.
EARLY AND HIGH RENAISSANCE (1400 – 1550)  BOLD PERIOD OF ART: Picasso leading the way.
 FRENCH: rebirth DADA AND SURREALISM (1917 – 1950)
 GAVE BIRTH: Michelangelo, Leonardo Da  Divide into absurdism.
Vinci, Donatello, and more.  Elements of dream and the subconscious
VENETIAN AND NORTHERN RENAISSANCE (1430 –  Wartime horrors (overlapped world-war II and
1550) the atomic bombing of Japan)
 Renaissance movement.  DADAIST: subvert classical ideas of expression.
 ARTIST REIGN  CAPTURED: Marcel Duchamp
BAROQUE (1600 – 1750)  NOTABLE: Dali and Magritte.
 Highly religious era POP ART (c. 1950s CE – 1960s CE)
 Thirty years war between the PROTESTANTS  POPULAR: TRANSIENT; EXPENDABLE; LOW
and CATHOLICS. COST; MASS PRODUCED; YOUNG; WITTY;
 ARTIST: Rembrandt and Caravaggio. SEXY; GIMMICKY; GLAMOROUS; AND BIG
 PALACE OF VERSAILLES: known for its ornate BUSINESS.
intensity.  Trendy look.
NEOCLASSICAL (1750 – 1850) POSTMODERNISM AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM (1970
 Capturing the grace and aesthetic perfection CE)
of GRECO-ROMAN art period.  Reinterpreting.
 Overlapping age of ENLIGHTENMENT NEO-EXPRESSIONISM (c. 1980s CE)
 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Jacques-louis David  1970s movement
and Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres.  Minimalism and embraced the impassioned
ROMANTICISM (1780 – 1850) emotions of expressionism.
 A rejection of the kind of order that the  NEO-EXPRESSIONISM: resurrected attempt to
enlightenment had imposed in favor of a more kill.
chaotic approach to life. MINIMALISM: strip away personal feelings,
REALISM (1848 – 1900) autobiographical content.
 First movement to finally reject all the drama, NEO-EXPRESIONIST: raw and sensual handling
intensely exaggerated emotion, and grandeur mediums, social protest and make abstract emotion
of other art style. tangible.
 Common folks’ lives.
 ARTISTS: Courbet and millet
IMPRESSIONISM (1865 – 1885) LESSON 4
 First purely aesthetic art periods. ART APPRECIATION
 Capturing a visual phenomenon rather than  Knowledge and understanding of the universal
an intensely political or religious one. and timeless qualities that identify all great
 PAINTERS: MONET, MANET, AND CASSATT. art.
POST-IMPRESSIONISM (1885 – 1910)
 Logical EXPRESSION
 Philosophy: rejection of traditional art rules  Convey meaning.
and its focus on perfection.  LOW LEVEL SKILL: spelling, punctuation,
 Free style and unrestricted brush techniques. capitalization.
  HIGH LEVEL: planning, organization, 5) PATTERN
determining content.  Repeating or echoing the elements.
IMAGINATION  Communicate sense of balance, harmony,
 Produce and simulate novel objects, people, contrast.
and ideas.  NATURAL PATTERN: occur in nature.
 Form a mental image of something that is not  MAN-MADE PATTERN: structural and
perceived through five senses. decorative purposes.
 Forming of experience of mind. 6) TEXTURE
 Cognitive process used in mental functioning.  Roughness or smoothness.
 Used in CONJUNCTION with psychological  OPTICAL TEXTURE: Illusion of texture.
imagery.  PHYSICAL TEXTURE: actual texture.
CREATIVITY  EPHEMERAL TEXTURE: subject to changes like
 Phenomenon whereby something new cloud.
somehow valuable is formed. 7) FORM
 Intangible: idea, scientific theory, musical  A shape and the space that it occupies.
composition, or joke.  Sculpture.
 PHYSICAL OBJECT: invention, printed literary  Illusion of 3D on a 2D surface.
work or a painting.  THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORM
 EQUATED INNOVATION  Modelled, carved, and constructed.
 A new idea, creative thoughts,  TWO-DIMENSIONAL FORM
and new imaginations in form  Skillful manipulation of the visual
of device method. elements.
 Drawing.

LESSON 5

THE VISUAL ELEMENTS OF ART

1) LINE
 Foundation of all drawings.
 First and most versatile
 Used different ways.
TYPES OF LINE:
HORIZONTAL LINE- DISTANCE AND CALM.
VERTICAL LINE- HEIGHT AND STRENGTH.
CURVED LINE: COMFORT AND EASE.
JAGGED LINE: TURMOIL AND ANXIETY.
2) SHAPE
 Regular or irregular.
 Natural: occurs in nature.
 man-made: made by human.
TYPES OF SHAPE:
SQUARE AND RECTANGLE: strength and stability.
CIRCLES AND ELLIPSES: continuous movement
TRIANGLES: eye in an upward movement.
INVERTED TRIANGLE: imbalance and tension.
3) TONE
 Lightness and darkness of a color.
USED TO CREATE:
CONTRAST
ILLUSION
DRAMATIC OR TRANQUIL
SENSE OF DEPTH AND DISTANCE
RHYTHM OR PATTERN.
4) COLOR
 Strongest effect on our emotion
 Create mood or atmosphere of an artwork.