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READING VISUAL ARTS Reading Visual Arts OUR LADY OF FATIMA  WARM UP ACTIVITY WHY STUDY ART? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjkx6PzajE Reading Visual Arts  IT’S YOUR TURN! WHY STUDY ART? OUR LADY O...

READING VISUAL ARTS Reading Visual Arts OUR LADY OF FATIMA  WARM UP ACTIVITY WHY STUDY ART? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjkx6PzajE Reading Visual Arts  IT’S YOUR TURN! WHY STUDY ART? OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts  USAGE OF ELEMENTS OF ARTS Reading Visual Arts  USAGE OF ELEMENTS OF ARTS The elements of art are the fundamental components used by artists when creating a work of art. These elements, often referred to as the building blocks of art, include line, shape, value, colour, space, texture, and form. Artists use all of these elements together help create the composition of an artwork, to express meaning and to create the impression of a scene or subject. Reading Visual Arts 1. LINES Line is one of the most basic elements of art and it can be used to create many different effects. Lines can be straight, curved, angular or organic and they may be thick or thin. They can also denote direction, such as horizontal or diagonal. Lines can also be used to suggest movement, value, depth and texture within a piece of art. Reading Visual Arts  1. LINES An artwork can be created with just line alone, look at line art drawings, where artists use pens or pencils alongside the hatching or cross hatching techniques to create the impression of light and shadow in different subjects. Shape Reading Visual Arts  2. SHAPE Shapes are two-dimensional forms that are defined by an outline or border. They can be geometric such as squares, circles and triangles, or organic like free-form shapes. Artists use shapes to represent a subject, for example, drawing the shape of a leaf in a landscape piece. Reading Visual Arts  2. SHAPE Complex shapes draw more attention from the viewer than simple shapes and large shapes draw more attention than smaller shapes, due to the inherent visual weight these types of characteristics have. William Morris repeated shapes and design motifs in his designs to create his famous patterns. The shapes all appear complex, organic and representational. Reading Visual Arts  3. Value Value is the lightness or darkness of a colour used in an artwork. Light and dark values create depth and perspective and also emphasise certain elements within a composition. Value is created by mixing black or white with a colour. Denman Ross created the value scale in 1907. In the Denman Ross value scale, 1 represents white and 9 represents black. Using a value scale can help artists determine relative values in their reference, which can aid them in mixing. For example, it can tell artists how much black or white to mix into their colours to match it to the colours in their reference. Reading Visual Arts  3. Value Michelangelo Merisi De Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, 1607 This 17th century artpiece titled St Jerome was made by the baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The 410 year old original version of the artpiece was painted with the following size: 112 x 157 cm. Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the medium of the work of art. Today, the artpiece belongs to the art collection of St. John's Co-Cathedral Foundation Malta. Chiaroscuro is the technique of using highly contrasting light and dark values in an artwork. Oil painters such as Caravaggio and Rembrandt used this technique in their oil paintings to create drama, atmosphere and focal points. Reading Visual Arts  4. Colour Colour is an important element of art which helps to bring life to an artwork. Colour is the way in which humans perceive wavelengths of light and is further categorised by hue, saturation and luminance. Primary colours such as red, blue and can be mixed to create secondary and tertiary colours. In art, these primary and secondary colours correspond to particular pigments which can be mixed to create new tones and hues. Reading Visual Arts  4. Colour Claude Monet’d Banks of the Seine at Jenfosse Colours evoke different feelings in people and they can be used to help express an artist’s emotional state. Colour theory is the study of the applications of colour in art and is an important concept to understand when creating artworks, as it can help artists to become faster and more accurate at colour mixing and help artists create colour harmony with intent in their designs. Reading Visual Arts 4. Space Space is the area around, within and between shapes that creates a sense of depth within an artwork. Positive space is defined as the space in artworks occupied by subject or objects, while negative space is the area around and between the subjects. Negative space could include the background, or sky for instance, however this can depend on the context of the artwork. Reading Visual Arts 4. Colour M.C Escher: Metamorphosis II You can see how Escher uses positive and negative space cleverly in his artwork ‘Metamorphosis II’. The repeated elements of the insects on the left morph into appearing as negative space between the fish in the middle, then transform into bird shapes on the right hand side of the artwork. Escher played with using similar shapes and consistent values to create a transformation of occupied space in this artwork. Reading Visual Arts Depending on how the artist has chosen to position and space elements within an artwork, feelings of harmony, unity and tension can be created. When subjects and objects are placed within close proximity of one another, it can create a sense of tension but also a sense of unity. However, when subjects and objects are more evenly space, the composition will appear more balanced. Reading Visual Arts 5. Texture Texture refers to the surface quality of an object or material that can be seen and felt. It can make a painting look more three- dimensional or realistic and it also helps to create a sense of depth, movement and rhythm. Reading Visual Arts 5. Texture Sculptures have inherent texture to them, with paint, artists can add additives to paint to enhance texture. For example, by adding cold wax to oil paint, it will thicken the mixture and make the paint retain brushstrokes on the canvas. Reading Visual Arts 6. Form Form is a three-dimensional object that has mass and volume. It occupies space and it can be viewed from any angle. Sculptures are considered to have three dimensional form, while subjects within a painting can have the appearance of form. Forms can be organic or geometric, simple or complex and either abstract or representational. When using media to create two dimensional artworks, such as pencil or paint, artists can create the impression of form by using shape, colour and values to give the illusion of three dimensionality. https://finearttutorials.com/guide/elements-of-art/ Reading Visual Arts STYLES OF ARTS Reading Visual Arts STYLES OF ARTS Artists used many styles in their paintings and drawings. Here are some of the more common styles of art. Learn about each style and how to identify it. Next time you look at a painting, try to figure out what style it is! https://finearttutorials.com/guide/elements-of-art/ Reading Visual Arts 1. Abstract Abstract artists felt that paintings did not have to show only things that were recognizable. In their paintings, they did not try to show people, animals or places exactly as they appeared in the real world.. they mainly used color and shape in their paintings to show emotions. Some Abstract art is Sonia Delaunay, Rhythm Colour also called non-objective art. In non-objective art, no. 1076, 1939, Tate Gallery, London you do not see specific objects. It is not painted to look like something specific. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts  2. Cubism Cubism is modern art made up mostly of paintings. The paintings are not supposed to look real. The artist uses geometric shapes to show what he is trying to paint. Early cubists used mainly grays, browns, greens, and Marc Chagall's "I and the Village", 1911. Oil on canvas yellows. After 1914, Cubists started to use Currently at the Museum of Modern Art. brighter colors. Cubism was the beginning of the Abstract and nonobjective art styles. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 3. Expressionism In Expressionist Art, the artist tries to express certain feelings about some thing. The artists that painted in this style were more concerned with having Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Portrait of Hans Frisch,” their paintings express a feeling than in circa 1907. Credit: McNay Art Museum/Art Resource, NY making the painting look exactly like what they were painting OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 5. Impressionism Impressionism was developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These pieces of art were painted as if someone just took a quick look at the subject of the painting. The paintings were usually in bold colors and did not have a lot of detail. The paintings in this style were usually outdoor scenes like landscapes. The pictures were painted to look like OUR LADY OF FATIMA Pissaro, Camille: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter they were shimmering Morning UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 6. Pointillism In pointillism, The artist uses small dots or strokes of paint to make up the pictures. From far away, these dots blend together to form the picture and give the impression of different colors as they OUR LADY OF FATIMA Signac, Paul: View of the Port of Marseille bland together UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 6. Pop Art Pop art can be any every day item that is drawn in a brash and colorful way. Pop Art is short for Popular Art. It is inspired GOLD MARILYN MONROE (1962) Andy Warhol was obsessed with pop culture icons that by comic strips, reflected heavily in his artwork. The mysterious and untimely death of Marilyn Monroe from a drug overdose advertising, and popular in August 1962 left the artist devastated. As a tribute to Monroe, Warhol got a black and white Polaroid of the entertainment. OUR LADY OF FATIMA actress, (a 1953 still from her movie Niagara) and used it as an inspiration to create a series of images using the silkscreen technique UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 7. Postimpressionism Postimpressionism began in the 19th century. It was mainly still lifes and landscapes. The postimpressionists The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch liked to use lots of Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in OUR June 1889, it depicts the LADY view from the east-facing window colors OFandFATIMA shadows. of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 8. Primitivism Primitive Art looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply, and the subjects are “flat”, or Dance by Henri Matisse twodimensional. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 9. Realism Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in in life. It began in the 18th century, but the greatest Realist era was in The Genius – Leonardo Da Vinci the mid-19th century. Most Realists were from France, but there were some famous American painters who were OUR LADY OF FATIMA The Last Supper – Leonardo Da Realists also. Vinci UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts 8. Surrealism Surrealists paintings were generally based on dreams. Their paintings were filled with familiar objects which were painted to look strange or mysterious. They hoped their odd paintings would make people look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about The Son of Man: Magritte's Famous Contribution to things. They thought that their Surrealism paintings might stir up feeling in The Great War : Rene Magritte the back of people's minds. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Source: https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/centricity/domain/886/stylesofart.pdf Reading Visual Arts 7 FUNCTIONS OF ARTS Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 1. Communication: Art is a form of communication, allowing the artist to express ideas, emotions, and experiences. The artist conveys their message through the use of colors, lines, textures, shapes, and various other elements. The viewer can interpret the artwork to gain a deeper understanding of the artist’s feelings or intentions. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 2. Aesthetics: Art is aesthetically pleasing and can be used to evoke emotion and enhance an environment’s beauty. Paintings, sculptures, and even music can provide an atmosphere of tranquility which can help bring people together. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 3. Memory: Art is often used to remember and honor important events, figures, or places. It is a powerful vehicle for preserving the past, and can be used to teach future generations about history and culture. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 4. Expression: Art is a form of self- expression, allowing the artist to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas without the use of words. Viewers of the artwork can gain insight into the artist’s thoughts and emotions. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 5. Inspiration: Art is often used to bring out the best in people. It can motivate, uplift, and inspire people to take action and strive to become better versions of themselves OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 6. Identification: Art can be used to identify with specific beliefs, cultures, religions, and locations. Symbols, colors, shapes, and textures can be used to identify with a group or community. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts FUNCTIONS OF ARTS 7. Recreation: Art can provide a creative outlet for relaxation and entertainment. Whether it’s painting, sculpting, drawing, or designing, art can be used to stimulate the mind and bring out a person’s creative side. OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY Reading Visual Arts  SCORING GUIDE: ACTIVITY Relevance of Idea – 40% Creativity – 40% Grammatical Accuracy – 20% Create a mini vlog discussing at least one style of art. The video should be at least 3 minutes. Use the following guide questions: 1. What do you think is the best style? How can you describe that style? 2. Why did you choose that style? 3. Is it appealing and interesting to the eyes of the beholders? Why? 4. Cite some examples of artworks that used that style. 5. Are those artworks popular? Why? DEADLINE OF SUBMISSION: September 10, 2023 Reading Visual Arts