Art: Definition, Importance
&Appreciation
PREPARED BY:
INS. MARIELLE THERY A. JUMAWAN
ANCIENT MODERN
PREHISTORIC MEDIEVAL CONTEMPORARY
ANCIENT MODERN
PREHISTORIC MEDIEVAL CONTEMPORARY
ANCIENT MODERN
PREHISTORIC MEDIEVAL CONTEMPORARY
PREHISTORIC RENAISSANCE 19TH CENTURY ART DURING THE WAR
MIDDLE AGES BAROQUE 20TH CENTURY ART 20TH CENTURY MODERN ART
ART HISTORY QUICK MAP
“THE DAWN OF ART”
Cave paintings, Venus figurines which are considered
portable sculptures
Greek standard of beauty: the birth of the ‟Classical‟ Age
Romans: the competitor of Greece; created realistic
sculptures of human figure
PREHISTORIC
The “death” or “dark ages” of artistic freedom
due to canonical standards of visual interpretation
The rise of Gothic art especially in Gothic
Churches
Popular art: Stained glass windows and
illuminated manuscripts
MIDDLE AGES
Revival of artistic genius, “Rebirth of Man”
Where the term “Renaissance Man” was
derived because of man‟s intellectual
achievements in the arts and science
The time of “Masters” e.g., Donatello, Da Vinci,
Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Van Eyck
RENAISSANCE
Grandiose and ornate art
Artistic innovation: “spotlight effect” called
chiaroscuro or in extreme usage, it is called
tennebrism
Artist to note: Caravaggio (Italy), Velasquez (Spain),
Poussin (France), and Antonio Gaudi (designer of “
Sagrada Familia” chapel in Barcelona)
BAROQUE
Emergence of ‟ isms‟
Neoclassicism: Greek and Roman Classics revived
Romanticism, Realism, Art Nouveau, Impressionism
Photography comes into the scene - Post-
impressionism, early expressionism, and symbolism
19 TH CENTURY
Art became more non-representational
Garish colors explored in Fauvism
Abstracted sculptures emerged
Simplified forms in paintings by Picasso and Matisse -
Art movements: Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism,
Expressionism - Mondrian‟s purely geometric art
20TH CENTURY MODERN
Dadaism: the art movement that defies logic
Surrealism: stepping into the dreamworld
American art blossoms: Jackson Pollock became
famous as “ Jack the Dripper” and paved the way for
American Abstract Expressionism
Mobile Sculptures (Alexander Calder) and Color Field
(Rothko) paintings also became prominent
ART DURING WARS
Highly experimental and radical
Pop art defines consumer culture; dominated mostly by works
of Andy Warhol
Minimalism: glorifying the simplest art elements
Birth of conceptual art
Photography is further developed which paved way to art
movement, Photorealism - Neo-expressionism or new
expressionism is characterized by strong subject matters
2OTH TO CONTEMPORARY
What is Art?
“ars” meaning ability or skill.
It covers those areas of artistic creativity that seek to
communicate beauty primarily through the sense.
Art also refers to any object, thing or procedure, which
expresses feelings, sentiments, ideas imagination,
anything, show skills in using materials, techniques and
procedures
is a product of the artists unique personality influenced
unconsciously by factors such as his/her environment,
traditions, traits, religious beliefs, economic conditions, his
ideas, or even his climate or geography. (Estolas)
elements
ARTIST(S) CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
CONDITION
SUBJECT ELEMENTS OF
ART VALUE PROVENANCE
SIZE
TECHNIQUE
QUALITY
EDITION
ART APPRECIATION AS A WAY OF LIFE
ART AS A PRODUCT OF IMAGINATION, IMAGINATION AS A
PRODUCT OF ART
ART AS EXPRESSION
“The role of art as a creative
work is to depict the world in a
completely different light and
perspective”.
Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited
to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be to
know and understand.”
“What an artist does to an emotion is
not to induce it, but express it.
Through expression, he is able to
explore his own emotions and at the
same time, create something beautiful
out of them.”
Line - it can be expressive and have a quality of its
own, like: scribbles, whimsical or naïve lines, implied
lines, blurred lines (lines that are smudged, shaded or
erased), aggressive lines, and calligraphic lines.
Shape – Three basic kinds: geometric, biomorphic,
and amorphous. Shapes can also be implied (shapes
produced by the negative space).
Color – also known as hue, Scientifically, it is the
light that bounces off a surface. In art we use subtractive
colors, i.e., colors that are from pigments. Additive colors
refer to a property of light.
Texture – can be used in paintings like impasto,
stamping, scratching in pottery, embossing when making
prints, and many others. Contemporary artists have also
used the element of texture to convey a certain emotion.
Form – Three-dimensional shape. Can refer to the
quality or likeness of an entire mass, let us say, the form
of a woman. It employs several techniques like shading,
perspective, and lighting.
Value – the lightness and darkness of a hue or a
colour. Often represented in a tonal value
Light – Without light, all the previous elements will
not be possible. Light creates the illusion that colour,
form, and texture exist. Light can be implied, natural, or
artificial (as with a digital rendition). The lighting of an
artwork has a very strong effect on its overall impact. An
example of strong and theatrical lighting is called
chiaroscuro.
Space - an area where the other elements can
interact. Two types: positive and negative space. Double
negative space refers to a blank space used as negative
space by, let us say, a field of colour or pigment.
CLASSIFICATION
of ART
VISUAL ART
FINE ART
PLASTIC ART
DECORATIVE ART
PERFORMANCE ART
APPLIED ART
This category includes works of art that are created primarily for
aesthetic reasons. Fine arts include:
Drawing – charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, pencil, or pen and
ink.
Painting – oils, watercolor, gouache, acrylics, ink and wash,
tempera, or encaustic paints.
Printmaking – woodcuts, stencils, engraving, etching and
lithography, or screenprinting, foil imaging, or Giclee prints.
Sculpture – bronze, stone, marble, wood, or clay.
Calligraphy – beautiful and stylized handwriting.
includes art works that are moulded
and not necessarily plastic objects. This
category consists of three-dimensional
works like clay, plaster, stone, metals,
wood and, paper (origami)
This classification consist of an art form that refers to
public performance events which occur mostly in the
theatre. Performance arts includes:
Traditional performance art – theatre, opera, music,
and ballet
Contemporary performance art – mime
Hyper-modern performance art – happenings
encompasses the application of
aesthetic designs to everyday functional
objects. Applied arts are intended for the
use of a career. It includes architecture,
computer art, photography, industrial
design, graphic design, fashion design.
functional but ornamental art forms, such
as jewelry, ceramics, mosaic art and
other items that are embellished by
ornaments and other designs. It also
includes works in glass, clay, wood,
metal, textile fabric, furniture,
