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ACTIVITY 1
WESTERN CLASSICAL ARTS TRADITION-ARTS 9

Learning Competency:

1. Analyzes art elements and principles in the production of work following the style of a
western and classical art.
2. Identifies distinct characteristics of arts during the different art periods.

What I Need to Do

Hello students! Altogether you will explore and learn the arts in the different periods
of time (Pre-historic, Classical, and Medieval), to recognize diverse art forms and styles that
influence the creative activity of other artists.
Activities that you will do are the following:
a. review the elements of arts
b. Identify the different era the art was made
c. Analyze the elements of art in the artwork
d. Design pre-historic art through rocks

At the conclusion of this phase, you are expected to analyze the elements of work
following the style of a western and classical art and to identify distinct characteristics of arts
during the different periods.

Gearing Up

Review: We will see if you still remember

the different elements of arts from your
previous years.

Read the statement carefully and choose the

answer from the right. Write the letter of your
 choice on the line provided before the number.

___1. It is what we see because of the reflected

light a. Texture
___2. Defined by a point moving in space
b. Value
___3. It is a flat, enclosed area of an artwork
created c. Color
through lines
___4. Refers to the way things feel, or look as if
you could d. Shape
feel if touched (illusion of touch)
___5. Defined as the relative lightness or
darkness of a color e. Line

Getting Better

1. Guessing: From the choices below, write the letters corresponding to the pictures on the
eras where they should belong in the box provided.
Pre-historic Egyptian Greek Roman Byzantine Romanesque Gothic

Ancient Art
Classical Art Medieval Art
1,500,000BC-2,000BC 2,000BC-400BC 400BC-1,400AD

Choices:

a. Cave of Lascaux c. Rose Window

b. Hieroglyphics
 Article from ornament-i-stil.livejournal.com

d. Venus of Willendorf e. Aphrodite

f. The Morgan Leaf
https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/calyx.htm

h. Enthroned Madonna and Child

g. Calyx-crater (mixing bowl)

How do you describe the lines in the drawing?

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Do the lines show movements?

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2. Examine: Analyze the elements of arts in each picture. Write your answer on the space
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provided under the question.
What story does the picture convey?
Thousands of years ago people drew pictures instead of words to convey
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message. The drawings happened 2,500 years ago. Cavemen drew pictures on the walls of
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the cave to tell stories.

Egyptian paintings were highly stylized, symbolic, and showed a profile view of an
animal or a person. These paintings were found on the walls of the Pharaohs tomb more
than 5,0001.years ago.

2.

What are the colors do you see in the picture?

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What color is the primary center of the work of art?

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 The picture is an example of Mosaic, which was popular in ancient Rome. It is an art
process where image is created using an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass,
stones, or other materials. This technique is used for decorative art or interior decoration

3.

Can you identify the shape of this artwork? What are they?
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Gaining Mastery
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What design do the shapes make?

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ROCK MY WORLD:
Do the shapes show how
Experience something specific? What
the pre-historic it is?
people were able to make an artwork all over the
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caves. Create your own version of cave art using a stone as your canvass or working material
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and another stone as your medium to make your artwork.
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Materials:
Flat rock in any shape
Rocks with sharp edges
Procedure:
1. Using the sharp-edged rock, scratch the flat rock with your desired design
2. Put a varnish using a mixture of white glue diluted in water to preserve your design on
the rock.
3. Design should reflect the characteristic of a pre-historic artwork.
4. You may also use the themes, motifs or patterns that show your regional identity.

Rubrics for Scoring

Excellent Good Fair Poor

CATEGORY
(10 pts) (7 pts) (4 pts) (1 pt)

Following Student followed Student Student followed The student did

Directions the directions followed most some of the not follow
correctly. of the directions. instructions.
directions.

Creativity and Student output is Student output Student output is Student output is
Workmanship very creative and is good and fair and has few dull with lots of
tidy. tidy. errors. errors

Pattern Pattern of Pattern of Pattern of There is no

regional identity regional regional identity visible pattern of
is well-defined identity is is somewhat regional identity.
and used from visible but not visible but not
beginning to end. clearly defined. continuous.

What I Need to Remember

Even before humans learned to read and write they were already artist as
manifested by the different archeological discoveries from the different parts of
the world. Different eras of the world manifested semblance of arts depending on
its aesthetic and practical needs.
Pre-historic era is classified as Stone Age. Paintings from the pre-historic
were found inside the caves which may have been their way of communicating
with each other. A concrete example of ancient drawing was found in the cave of
Lascaux. France. Venus of Willendorf was considered as one of the oldest
sculptures in history, this is a figurine carved from limestone that portrayed a nude
woman with protruding breast and abdomen, believe to be a fertility statue.
 Another distinct art in ancient times is the hieroglyphs, a system of ancient
Egyptian writing using pictures and symbols.

Ancient Greek art portrays human form as manifested in their calyx-crater (mixing
bowl).
Byzantine art was purposely made to glorify the Christian religion and to express its
mystery. Enthroned Madonna and Child is among the art at this time to portray the
expression of the Christian belief. Morgan leaf is an artwork during Romanesque period.
During Gothic period, the sight of Rose Windows is found in the church structure.

Answer Key

1 Gearing Up
1. c
2. e
3. d
4. a
5. b

Writer: DARLENE D. PASCUAL

School: Dawis National High School
Division: Digos City
Illustrator: MA. ELOISA D. CAJES
School: Dawis National High School
Division: Digos City