A product of an activity that involves both

imagination and skill in accomplishing it. It

creates aesthetic feelings or experiences
which delighted and satisfy our desire for
beautiful things.
A product of the artist’s unique personality
influenced consciously or unconsciously by
factors such as his environment, traditions,
national traits, religious beliefs, economic
conditions, his ideals or even the climate and
geography.
 Represents or reflects the individual, the
character of the period and the place where
it was produced.
• A thing of beauty having aesthetic
value. Obra maestra, provides
aesthetic values to the viewers.
• It must have an artistic merit and
literary merit.
• It is a symbolic state of meaning
rather having a practical function.
•Best selling - it is very popular in
its day, or is produced by an artist
who has done other very popular
piece.
•Ground breaking- that it does not
follow regular convention or
already tried artistic methods real
closely. It is not, in short, just one
more soap opera following an old,
old formula, no matter how well
done.
• Inherently beautiful - means just as the
art critics do require and demand that
a work of art have an inner harmony,
beauty, and emotional/intuitive
meaning that are unified, strong and
intense, and deeply moving to us.
Something that appeals to your senses
and emotions.
1. MAJOR ARTS involves man’s skills which
focused on form, content, and execution.
(painting, architecture, sculpture, literature,
dance and music)
2. MINOR ARTS lies on the “styling” and
addressed primarily to the sense of sight
and their usefulness. (decorative arts, the
popular arts, graphic arts, the plastic arts
and industrial arts)
1. Literature (poetry, drama, story)
2. Visual arts (graphic arts and plastic arts)
3. Decorative arts (furniture design, mosaic)
4. Performing arts (music, dance, theatre, mime,
puppetry)
5. Culinary art (food preparation, cooking,
presentation)
6. Pop arts (multimedia, modern technology art)
The elements and principles of art are the
building blocks or foundations upon which a
work of art is created.
You will not use all of them all the time but will
you will some of them most of the time.
It may have a direct/tangible or indirect/abstract
meaning
 Lines are the path of a
moving point. They define
the edges of shapes and
forms. Lines always have
direction.
LINE SUGGEST…

• Man usually lies

prone when asleep
or when at rest and
stands erect when
in action.
TWO CLASSIFICATIONS OF LINE

1.straight line
• horizontal
• vertical
• diagonal
2.curved line
• crooked or jagged
• A straight line is the basic
framework of many forms, but it
lacks softness and flexibility.
• are lines repose and serenity.
• Horizontal lines are found in reclining
persons, in landscape, calm bodies of
water and in the distant meeting of
the earth and sky which is called
horizon.
•are lines that denote action.
•They suggest poise, balance,
force, aspiration, exaltation,
and dynamism.
•Vertical lines also tend to
express as well as arouse
emotions of exaltation and
inquietude.
• suggest action, life, and movement.
• Almost every object in action
assumes a diagonal line
 CURVED LINES
• grace, subtleness, direction, instability,
movement, flexibility, joyousness, and
grace.
CROOKED OR JAGGED LINES
• express energy, violence,
conflict, and struggle.
2-d, flat, when a line
connects to itself
3-d forms can be actual or
implied, they have height,
width, and depth
 Implied Form,
Actual Form, is a created with
work that you can shading and
see from all sides. modeling.
sculpture
hue of an object when light
is reflected off of it.
 PRIMARY COLORS: RED,
YELLOW, BLUE

SECONDARY COLORS:
ORANGE, GREEN, PURPLE

WARM COLORS: ORANGE,

YELLOW, RED

COOL COLORS: BLUE, GREEN,

PURPLE
 3 DIMENSIONS OF COLOR

a) Hue b). Value c). Intensity