Subject: GE6115 | Art Appreciation
Week 1-2:
Art – comes from Aryan root word which means join or put together.
• Artizein – Greek words means prepare
• Are and aris – latin word to describe visual arts
Visual Arts
Literary Arts
Industrial Art – architecture
As per Leo Tolstoy – art causes receiver to enter relationship of producer and produced.
Views on art:
• Aristotle – work of art should be evaluated on mimesis (imitation).
• Plato – depended on harmony by symmetry and proportion
• Leonardo da Vinci – intellectual activity to capture the inner life (energy and power) of a subject
• John Dewey – art is an attitude of a spirit, a state of mind
• Leon Battista Alberti – a man can do all things if he but wills them
• John Ruskin – fine arts is hand, head and heart go together
• Vincent van Gogh – best to work on art when feel drawn towards it on their own accord.
4 Common Points of Art
• Product of man
• Creative
• Shared to satisfy others
• Expressed in different styles
Major themes of Art:
• Human Form (portrait, human figure and narratives)
• Natural World (plants, animals and landscapes)
• Spiritual World (heroes, religious figures and ritual objects/places of worship)
Vincent Van Gogh – greatest landscape artist
Scope of Art:
• Visual Arts:
o Drawing
o Painting
o Sculpture
o Architecture
o Calligraphy – visually appealing
o Photography
, • Performing Arts – dance, musics, theater, films:
o Dance
o Singing
o Films and Theater
o Music
Functions:
• To express compassion for beauty
• To entertain and soothe
• Narrate, commemorate and portray
Remember to understand:
• Context
• Personal Function – express thoughts and feelings
• Social Function
• Physical Function – purpose (such as architecture), symbols, build environment, industrial
Week 3-4:
Elements of Visual Art
Visual Arts – still, unmoving arts; representation or embodiment
Elements of Visual Arts:
• Lines – lead the viewer’s eyes
• Organic eyes – found in nature; irregular, curved, fluid
• Shapes and Forms:
• Shape – 2 dimensional
• Dimension – amount of shape takes up
• Geometric – can be studied mathematically
• Free-form shapes – cannot be studied mathematically
• Texture – how things feel
• Tactile texture – feel when you touch
• Visual texture – felt when you look ; illusion of three-dimensional surface
• Color – light waves reflected from your eyes
• Hue – name of specific color in color spectrum
• Yellow is the lightest hue and violet is the darkest hue. Black, white and gray are neutral
• Value – indicated through lightness or darkness of a color
• Tint – light value of a hue
• Shade – dark value of hue
• Chiaroscuro – arrangement of light and shadow (chiaro – bright; oscuro – dark)
• Intensity – brightness or dullness of hue
• High Intensity – color is a pure bright hue
• Dull Intensity – color is a dark or dull hue
Week 1-2:
Art – comes from Aryan root word which means join or put together.
• Artizein – Greek words means prepare
• Are and aris – latin word to describe visual arts
Visual Arts
Literary Arts
Industrial Art – architecture
As per Leo Tolstoy – art causes receiver to enter relationship of producer and produced.
Views on art:
• Aristotle – work of art should be evaluated on mimesis (imitation).
• Plato – depended on harmony by symmetry and proportion
• Leonardo da Vinci – intellectual activity to capture the inner life (energy and power) of a subject
• John Dewey – art is an attitude of a spirit, a state of mind
• Leon Battista Alberti – a man can do all things if he but wills them
• John Ruskin – fine arts is hand, head and heart go together
• Vincent van Gogh – best to work on art when feel drawn towards it on their own accord.
4 Common Points of Art
• Product of man
• Creative
• Shared to satisfy others
• Expressed in different styles
Major themes of Art:
• Human Form (portrait, human figure and narratives)
• Natural World (plants, animals and landscapes)
• Spiritual World (heroes, religious figures and ritual objects/places of worship)
Vincent Van Gogh – greatest landscape artist
Scope of Art:
• Visual Arts:
o Drawing
o Painting
o Sculpture
o Architecture
o Calligraphy – visually appealing
o Photography
, • Performing Arts – dance, musics, theater, films:
o Dance
o Singing
o Films and Theater
o Music
Functions:
• To express compassion for beauty
• To entertain and soothe
• Narrate, commemorate and portray
Remember to understand:
• Context
• Personal Function – express thoughts and feelings
• Social Function
• Physical Function – purpose (such as architecture), symbols, build environment, industrial
Week 3-4:
Elements of Visual Art
Visual Arts – still, unmoving arts; representation or embodiment
Elements of Visual Arts:
• Lines – lead the viewer’s eyes
• Organic eyes – found in nature; irregular, curved, fluid
• Shapes and Forms:
• Shape – 2 dimensional
• Dimension – amount of shape takes up
• Geometric – can be studied mathematically
• Free-form shapes – cannot be studied mathematically
• Texture – how things feel
• Tactile texture – feel when you touch
• Visual texture – felt when you look ; illusion of three-dimensional surface
• Color – light waves reflected from your eyes
• Hue – name of specific color in color spectrum
• Yellow is the lightest hue and violet is the darkest hue. Black, white and gray are neutral
• Value – indicated through lightness or darkness of a color
• Tint – light value of a hue
• Shade – dark value of hue
• Chiaroscuro – arrangement of light and shadow (chiaro – bright; oscuro – dark)
• Intensity – brightness or dullness of hue
• High Intensity – color is a pure bright hue
• Dull Intensity – color is a dark or dull hue
