SELF-ASSESSMENT CHAPTER 1

Directions: Answer the following activities by responding to the question.

Answer your best knowledge or idea. Write your answer in a separate
sheet of paper.

Activity #1: Expose Yourself to Art!

What has been your exposure to visual art? Has it been primarily from your
family? School? Social activities? Personal explorations? Do you make art?
If so, what kind? What is the medium you use? What kind of style is it?
Look under "style" in chapter 1 to get a better idea of what it might be.
Who is your audience? If you haven’t made any art, have you ever wanted
to? What kind?
Answer:
I had been exposed to visual art during my elementary and high school days.
I think I did it mostly because it is a requirement in a particular subject. I had little
interest in doing art but I like to draw especially when I was in 3rd grade. I loved
making portraits of human body parts i.e., neck, heart and other internal organs
and drawings of insects. This in particular may be included under scientific
illustration as a role of my art and be identified as naturalistic in style because it
depicts accurate images that could be easily understood. My audience included
only a few person. First is my teacher, since I was only making it for academic
purposes. Next are my classmates to whom I share my work. Lastly is myself, I
always like looking at images of human body parts and making a drawing of it
since I like Science very much and drawing was my hobby back then. However, I
lost my interest in drawing when I was in mid-high school.

Rey Mark C. Tumala

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Activity #2: A Definition of Art
Do you agree with the definition for ‘art’ as it’s explained in chapter 1? Why
or why not? Can you add to the definition? Is your definition coming from a
subjective or objective perspective?
Answer:

I definitely agree with the definition of art as explained in chapter 1. Before

reading it, my understanding about the complexity of art was very little. But then I
understood the true meaning and value of art, that it is not just a simple painting,
a carved out wood, a line of words grouped to create a meaning or a sound we
hear, it is almost everything. Everything we see, hear or feel is an art. It is an
expressive medium which can take many forms that is why art is considered to be
very complex. I can no longer add anymore definition of art since what my mind
was referring about art was already stated in the definition in chapter 1.

Rey Mark C. Tumala

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Activity #3: Investigating Art

 The
Adoration of the
Magi
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Dimensions: 2.46 m x 2.43 m
Location: Uffizi Gallery
Created: 1481
Subject: Biblical Magi, Adoration of the Magi
Periods: Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, Early
renaissance
The artwork is realistic. The Virgin Mary and Child are depicted in the
foreground and form a triangular shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration.
Behind them is a semicircle of accompanying figures, including what may
be a self-portrait of the young Leonardo (on the far right). In the
background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen
can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback
fighting, and a sketch of a rocky landscape. It falls under the category of
fine art and employs two role of art mainly description and landscape.
Rey Mark C. Tumala
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Activity #4: Style, Form & Content
 Totem pole falls in the category of craft and is culture in style.
 Giotto crucifix falls in the art category and abstract/cultural in style
 Minoan snake goddess falls in the art category naturalistic/ cultural in
style.
They are all different in form and content and in meaning because totem
pole represent social status. It also symbolizes stylized human, animal and
supernatural forms.In Giotto crucifix, it representst Jesus Christ death in the
cross which means purifying every sin of human kind. On the other hand,
the minoan snake goddess appears to be in Greek mythology and which
resembles a goddess with snakes as hair and snake is held sacred by
many ancient culture representing the ragiling creator of life fore and pack
symbolism Raul soul, fertility and transformation. Even though they are
very different in form and content and in meaning, this three artworks are
with the same cultural style.