introduction to arts

1. Art Education Specialization Review
Visual Arts and It’s Elements
Arts are generally grouped into major and minor arts. Major arts
include paintings, architecture, sculpture, literature, music and
dance. Major arts involve the following:
 Forms, content, and execution
 Appeal to the senses (sight, hearing, and healing)
 Notable in effect, dignity and interest
Minor arts include the decorative arts, popular arts, graphic
arts, plastic arts, and industrial arts. It is inferior in degree
especially in extent of aesthetic quality. Aesthetic factor of minor
arts lies in the "styling and addressed to the sense of sight and
their usefulness". (Minor Arts)
Arts are Grouped into the following:
Visual Arts
•These art works are perceived by our eyes and maybe classified
into graphic art and plastic art.
Graphic Arts
•Have flat two-dimensional surface such as painting, drawing,
photography, and other products of printing industry, design,
book, advertisements, signs, posters and other display.
Plastic Arts
•Visual art with three-dimensional forms. Under this
architectural design, construction of buildings, landscape,
interior designs for beauty and convenience.
•It includes the following: furnishings – accessories, floor, ceiling,
and wallpaper or paint; textile for curtain and upholstery;
sculpture out of stone, wood, clay, metal and ivory; craft and
designing such as dresses, coats, suits, shoes , bags and design
for stage production.
Performing Arts
•Include theater, play, dance and music. It also involved
movement, speaking and gesture.
Literary Arts
•Includes short stories, novels, poetry and dramas.
Popular Arts
•Include film, newspaper, magazines, radio and television, and
characterized as gay and lively.
Gustatory Art of Cuisine
•Involves skill in food preparation.
Decorative Arts
•Produces by beautifying houses, offices, cars and others.
Values and Reasons for Arts
• Create things to serve our practical purposes
• Commemorate certain occasion
• Reminds of heroic deeds of great man
• Valuable sources of inspiration and experience
• Influenced to change our ways and lifestyle
• Beautify our humanity
Four Principal Approaches to Art Appreciation and
Evaluation
Mimetic
•Imitative; as based on the subject matter.
Expressive
•Relating to expression, based on the artist.
Pragmatic
•Concern with the practical action or belief; based on the
audience.
Formal/Aesthetic
•Appreciative of beautiful; artistic; based on the form.
Dimension of arts
SOCIAL DIMENSION- Is consist of communication or dialogue.
It transmit information or opinion. It is also a part of literary and
actual work that shows interaction, conversation and the

2. influence of persons with others and the community as well.
Person's relationship have several kind.
OBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIP
Made people as an object, made an independent mind and
dealing with the true personal feelings.
MANIPULATIVE RELATIONSHIP
To influence others but with intent to deceive or uses people for
some vested interest.
Functional Relationship
It has a special purpose in which a person is especially fitted.
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
Relating to an individual of affecting an individual.
The basic elements of social dimension of art are the following:
family, community, age, race, religion, and belief and class
phenomena.
ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF ART
It has its useful meaning that human endeavor is concerned.
Painting is not only something to be appreciated but also it
involved improvement in the quality of living on the part of the
painter. To showcase their art exhibits, auctions or sell of their
craft. And for the musician and the other art talents, concert,
recitals and shows are done.
PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ART
It has something to do with their dreams, imagination, feelings.
It attempts to show and reveal the inside thoughts and dreams.
IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ART
Artist often show their reaction and feelings on their art works.
Some works that convey such feelings: the anger and revolution
as felt in the mural of Picasso, on the novels of Dr. Jose Rizal
indicative of the Spanish colonial system.
ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ARTS
Is the basis of all visual arts work. It starts from a points and it is
made you connect two points together. It maybe broad, thin,
fine or jagged.
ELEMENTS OF VISUAL ARTS
LINES
 Is the basis of all visual arts work. It starts from a points
and it is made you connect two points together. It maybe
broad, thin, fine or jagged.
 Two Kinds Of Lines Straight line – Indicates power and
strength.
• Kinds of Straight Line
 Vertical – Indicates poise, solemnity, power and
 determination
 Horizontal – Indicates peace, and prosperity
 Slant/Diagonal – Symbol of movement action
Color
•Characteristics of Color
 Hue – The attribute of color that permits them to be
classed as red, yellow, green, blue or an intermediate
color.
Color
•Characteristics of Color
Psychological meaning of Colors
 Red – A color attributed to bravery, courage and passion
 Blue – For novelty, justice, peace and wisdom

3.  Yellow – for happiness and lliveliness, significance and
hospitality
 Green – Expresses fertility and hope
 White – for purity and kindness
 Orange – stands for growth
 Brown – stands for miser line
 Violet – color for majesty and mysticism
 Black – connotes grief and sorrow
COLOR SCHEME
Combination of two colors.
Types of Color Scheme
 Achromatic – is a combination of black, white and gray it
expresses passive feeling towards art works.
 Monochromatic – combination of one color tint with
shades and values.
 Polychromatic – composed of different hue.
 Munsell – with 10 colors
 Prang – with 12 colors
Great Philippine Works in Visual Arts
Great and Popular Filipino Architects and Painter
•Juan Arellano – Manila Post Office (1930), Metropolitan
Theater
•Leandro Locsin – National Artist in Modern Architecture
- Designed the CCP, Philtrade, Folk Arts Theater and Film Center
of the Philippines.
- UP Catholic Chapel, (1947-1955)
•Jose Manosa – San Miguel Corporation at Ortigas
•Francisca Manosa – Coconut Palace, Our Lady at Peace at EDSA
•Tomas Mapua – Dela Salle University, Nurses Home at PGH,
CEU
•Juan Nakpil – Pioneer of modern architect, QI Admin Bldg.,
Quiapo Church
•Damian Domingo – paintings of Our Lady of Rosary, The Altas
of St. Peter in Rome, and the Holy Family (1826) Great and
Popular Filipino Architects and Painter
•Juan Arceo – the only Muralist in his time in the Philippines.
Painted Portrait of Juan Antonio Zlaybar, Archibishop of Manila,
1820.
•Justiniano Asuncion – remarkable quality portraits; niece
Felomina –1860, painting of Virgin of Antipolo, is masterpiece –
portrait of Don Norberto Castor of Candaba, Pampanga – 1950
•Antonio Malantic – Work on religious scene on copper – La
Divina Pastora –1855
•Lorenzo Guerrero – Father of Philippine Genre Painting and a
poet.
His best works:
- The Vendress – an Indian squitting on papag selling food.
- Young Lass Beside a Brook – a girl with jar on her head
- The Ecstacy of St. Theresa – he won in 1882 during the art
competition in
Catholic Church
Great and Popular Filipino Architects and Painter
•Simon Flores – religious paintings and portraits from town in
Pampanga
- The Music of Town – won a medal at 1876
- Feeding the Children – National Museum
- Learning to Road – Vargas Museum
•Felipe Roxas – (1840-1899) - End of Market Day – showing an
old woman who sold vegetables except for a bunch of bananas
- House of the Bridge of Paete
- A Nipa Hut
- The Church of Antipolo
• Paz Paterno – known for her Still Life.

4. The genre painting has been an instrument in shaping and
defining national traits against colonizer. Filipino values and
attitudes are still deeply related with the man nature.
- The Growth of Genre Painting -
Tagalog Novel That Shows The Theme Of
Rural Genre
• Hidalgo – Sunset in Sta. Ana
• Fabian Dela Rosa and Amorsolo – view of Marikina, the rural
setting and countryside
• Valeriano Hernandez Pena – Nene at Neneng
• Manuel Arguillas – English Short Story – How my Brother
Leon Brought Home a Wife
Painting Fernando Amorsolo Y Cueto (May 30, 1892 – April
24, 1972)
• Is one of the most important artists in the history of painting in
the Philippines. Amorsolo was portraitist and painter of rural
Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his
craftmanship and mastery in the use of light, Born in Paco,
Manila, he earned a degree from the Liceo de Manila Art School
in 1909.
Major Works by Amorsolo
 Afternoon Meal of the Workers (Noonday Meal of the
Rice Workers) –1939
 Assassination of Gov. Bustamante
 Bataan
 The Bombing of the Intendencia –1942
 The Building of Intramuros
 Burning of the Idol
 The Burning of Manila (1946)
 The First Mass in the Philippines
 Fruit Gatherer (1950)
 Maiden in a Stream (1921)
 Making of the Philippine Flag
 The Mestiza (1943)
 My Wife, Salud (1920)
 One Casualty
 Our Lady of Light (1950)
 Planting Rice (1946)
Other Asian and International Artist
 Vincent Van Gough - used brush strokes in his works
(Road with Cypresses)
 Georges Seurats - used colored dots (paintillism) Filipino
painters inspired by his work: *Ibarra dela Rosa, Manuel
Rodriguez Sr. and Nemesio Miranda
 Paul Cezarnnes - brush strokes vary with different shapes
to almost abstraction
 Pablo Picasso - introduced culusm and acclaimed as
Father of Modern Art
Art in the Present
 Hernando R. Ocampo - National Artist for Visual Arts in
1991
 Onib Olmedo - known for distrarted paintings and
expressionistic
 Ang Kiukok - Another National Artist - paintings are very
mush powerful and expressive
 Jose Joya - one of the leading abstractionist
Art in the Present
 Manuel Rodriguez Sr. - pioneer in printmaking
 Carlos "Botong" Francisco - greatest Filipino Manual
Painter
 Galo Ocampo- first Filipino Surrealism Painter
 Victorio Edades - father of modern Art in the Philippines
 Antoni S. Velasquez – Father of Tagalog Komik