Notes Hummanities 213

Mr Benigno Agapito
30 minutes late max
3 lates = 1 absence


 Photo by : Fernando Amorsolo


Covering art appreciation through the period
Txt book is
Deadline short term submit on time
Prepare introductory speech short
Humanities 135p, national bookstore, author fransico zullueta

Study of art importance of art elements
Bring something artistic from the house

Study realism, abstraction
1st quiz on Saturday on the lecture

Humanities generally pgs
Art, literature, music, architecture, dance, and theatre

Record mans experiences, values, sentiments, ideals, goals

Importance of arts (pg 5)

Its everywhere
Interest in appreciation and beauty
Subject of art
Varied may refer to any person, object, score, or event
Some arts have subjects others don’t
Those w/out known as non-representational or nonobjective arts

Painting sculpture, graphic arts, literature and theater representational -> some sculpture w/out subject

Non-objective -> stories or references to identifiable objects.

Realism

The manner of presenting subject depends on
Interest
Imagination
Creativity
Purpose

No art is a duplicate of nature
When objects presented in the way they appear normally in nature

Naturalistic closer to nature than realistic

Abstraction
e.g. some paintings and sculptures
the technique of simplifying and reorganizing objects and elements according to the artist's creative expression.

Distortion
To dramatize the shape of a figure to create an emotional effect. When the figure has been drawn so that proportional differ.

From the natural appearance and measurements
e.g. twisting, stretching, or deforming the natural shape of an object.
Usually used in caricatures so that the message and target of ridicule appear grotesque and hateful.

Surrealism
Regarded as a combination of realism and distortion
The 1920s some artists developed ways of presenting the subject. To do with dreams and the subconscious
Freudian psychology, subconscious important in human conduct -> expression in art

Source
Artist’s freedom to choose a subject
Depends on the environment. Personal interest
Availability medium used
Time he lives
Patronage given

Fernando Amorsdo romanticized Philippine landscape turned rustic rural areas into idyllic places.
Modern interested in cities, railroad trucks, traffic jams, slums, Intramuros, and high rise buildings.
Inanimate objects – planes, fruits, veges, kitchen utensils, glasses, cups, plates, bottles.
Animals – Carabaos, cows, horses, sarimarok (from Maranaws) shaped like rooster looks like a fern
Legend and lives of saints

Ticbalon diagram made a carving of soap

Social functions of art
Greek & Roman sources of art
Music – an art of combining and regulating sounds
2 forms dance and religion.

Social
Music
Dance
Sculpture

Ideas

Serenity passing of time influence Linkin park
Old, alone, man looking out the window
Going back NZ things expensive

Chapter 2
Visual art, space art, auditory – music & literature, a medium is required to express ideas

Music
Conveying emotions
Combining and regulating sounds
2 forms dance and religion

Art and its social function
Quality, production, expression or realm
Social function to fill
Social behavior

Physical function
Purpose of the object

Sculpture
Carving, molding, welding, or producing works of art in 3D.
Religion has made great functional use of sculpture
Arts, mediums, and technique has

Medium cones from Latin word medium visual and auditory
2D – painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography
3D- Sculpture, architecture, landscape, community, planning, industrial design, ceramics and furniture making.

Auditory
Music & literature. Mediums can be heard and which both exist in space and time.
All arts convey meaning and these may be enjoyed through either the visual or the auditory sense.

The artist and his mediums

Best express the idea he wants to convey the artist and his technique
Techs are the manner in which the artists control his medium to achieve the desired effect.
Artists differ from one another in technique even if they use the same medium
e.g. painter may have fine tech in watercolor but a poor one in oil

the mediums of visual arts
watercolor – warm and rich tones
gouache – opaque watercolor -> mix zinc white with the regular watercolor paints
fresco painting on a moist platter surface with colors ground in water or a lime water medium.

Fresco painting

Tempera, Pastel, Encaustic, oil, acrylic, mosaic, stained glass, tapestry, drawing, concentrates on the use of line pencil lead, bistre, crayons, charcoal, silverpoint, printmaking.
5 major types of print
Woodcat, engraving, relief, intaglio, stencil printing

Mediums of sculpture
Stone, granite, marble

Mediums
Jade – ornamental, fashion + jewelry, ivory, metals, bronze, brass, copper, gold & silver, lead, plaster

Instruments
String, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboard

Literary types
Fiction – novel – short story – pt of view, style, plot, setting, characterizations
Essay
Poem
Drama

Literature
Translating fails a lot in English

Chapter 3 art elements & organizations

An element of art can only be seen in some medium elements of visual art are the line, value (light and dark) light and shadow (chiaroscuro), form, color, texture, and space.

Line – simplest most ancient and most universal means of creating visual art.

Mold an object out of clay
Nat bookstore
Includes use of lines, color, texture, value (value light or dark)



Colour Diagram

Warm colors, cool colors

Primary colors red, yellow and blue
Secondary green, violet and orange

Intermediate colors – mixing equal amounts primary and secondary colors
Ex: yellow-orange, red-orange, orange-green

Tertiary colors – combine equal mixture any secondary colors

Black, darkest dullest color
Only despair, gloom, death, mourning

Blue

Shy and deep, vastness, infinity, tranquility, calmness, peace

Gray
Weight, solidity, and neutrality

Green
Still water, vegetation, growth, freshness, hope

Orange
Deliciousness, sweetness

Pink
Love

Red
Fire, blood, danger, festivity, bravery, war, energy, warmth

Violet- shadows, mourning, penance, royalty, power

White- simplicity, clarity purity and peace
Yellow – jealousy, light, joy, sunshine, cheerfulness, warmth splendor and hospitality
Yellow-green – hurts eyes, makes one appear darker appropriate for those with fair complexions. Jealousy and hatred.
Brown – humility, and confidence.

Color harmony correct combo and arrangement of colors

Monochromatic harmony – employs only one color with its tints and shades

Analogous harmony – use of color which poses one common color in the mixture
Ex: orange, red-orange, and yellow-orange

Neutralizing
Types of contrasting color harmonies are complementary harmony, d-c harmony, s-c comp harmony & d-sc comp harmony

Triad harmony – 3 colors in a triangle in color chart
Primary – yellow, red and blue
Secondary green, orange and violet
Intermediate yellow-orange, red-violet, blue-green, red-orange, blue-violet

Use of art elements
Symbols
Pictures
Emotion
Principles of design
Balance
Harmony
Proportion
Rhythm
Emphasis

Early Filipino

Early people pottery, leaves, wood, bamboo, flat tree barks
Jewelry – shells, flower, plumage, jade, glass beads, cornelian, agate, gold
Sculpture – religion, spirits, legends, myths, tales, proverbs, riddles

Ifugao – alim and hudhud
Bicol 0 Ibalon
Ilocano – Big ni Lam-ang
Visayan – Labaw Dongon, Maraglas
Maranaw- ‘Poem’ Darangan
Superheroes vs. monsters, gods + goddesses, lullabies, planting songs, boat songs, feasting, mourning songs, nose flute; resemble violin, harp, and variety of songs

Types poems, metical tales (romances)

Comedia, moro-moro, shadow play, panuluyan, salubong, zarzuela, awit, tibg, karagatan, sainete, cenbicuto, santa cruz de mayo, flores de mayo, duplo, juan luna, felix hidalgo

Architecture
Baroque influence  massive walls, thick buttresses turrets and spiral motifs

Chinese
Silk or paper
Vertical hanging scroll, horizontal hand scroll small album leaf

Japanese
Sculpture wood and bronze, portable printing scrolls, albums and screens, tea ceremony, haiku, hoto, zen + Buddhist

Architecture – intimate relationship between the building and its natural setting landscaping impulse

Theater – noh – kabuki – bunraku or puppet show

Vocal techniques – singer focuses the tone in his head

Malayan singing natural
Japanese prolonged and guttural
Chinese nasally pitched

Old phi alphabet
17 letters: 14 consonants, 3 vowels

A
Ei
Ou

Written top to bottom using a knife
Negritos like violin
Bagasi
Butting
Kahig
Diw-diw-as

Pas-ing

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