NOTES IN ARTS 5

Painting – a picture made with coloring materials like paints.

Image – an expression of the artist’s emotions.
-this surface could be paper, canvas, and wood panels.
Realistic painting – style of painting that uses actual shapes and colors of a scenery.
Cubists – artists who uses cubes to form the shapes of the scenery.

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo – one of the most important visual artists in the
Philippines.

- First Filipino to be awarded the Philippine

National Artist in 1972.
- Master painter of Philippine rural landscapes.
- Well – known for his mastery in the use of
light.

Pablo Picasso – Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and

stage designer.

- considered one of the greatest and most influential artist of

the 20th century.

- credited along with Georges

Braque, with the creation of Cubism.

ELEMENTS OF ART
How do artists convey a certain idea, impression, or feeling and emphasize depth in cubism and
realistic painting?

There are visual techniques that artists apply to convey a certain idea, impression, or feeling.
These techniques also help to emphasize depth in cubism and realistic painting. Artists use some
elements of art called value and texture.
In painting, dark, and light tones are applied when the painter would like to establish the
volume of the object that is to be painted.
Tone – the tonal relationship between light and dark areas in painting.
- also referred to as value.
Values and Intensity of colors - create “mood.”
Contrasting light and dark hues together produces a sensation of vitality and directness. This
is often the atmosphere seen in restaurants and entertainment houses.
Colors in low intensities – produce calm and repose. This is a kind of surrounding favored by
hospitals and charitable buildings.
Colors – can arouse sensations of pleasures and pain.
Varying tones of green shades and of yellow oranges – enhance a pleasant feeling. An
example of this is the ones shown in the rural scenes of Fernando Amorsolo’s landscapes.
Too much dark shades – evoke feelings of sadness, fear, rage, and other dark or negative
feelings.
Balance and proportion in size and shapes – establish the foreground, middle ground, and
background.
- this technique emphasizes depth in painting a
landscape.

REVIEWING COLORS
Color Harmony – combination of colors that can go together.
- grouped into related color harmonies and contrasting color harmonies.
Complementary colors – consists of two colors that lie directly opposite each other in the color wheel.
For example, red and green; orange and blue; and yellow and violet.
What are related color harmonies?
1. Monochromatic Harmony – involves one color and its tint is lighter, and
shade is darker.
2. Analogous Harmony – is a combination of three colors lying side by side in the color wheel.
What are the contrasting harmonies?
1. Complementary Harmony – consists of two colors which be directly opposite each other in the
color wheel.
2. Double complementary Harmony – consists of two directly opposite their complements placed
in color wheel.
3. Split complementary – combination of a primary or secondary color together with two colors
immediately next to its complement.
4. Triad Harmony – combination of three colors which lie in equal distance from each other in the
color wheel.
a. Primary Triad – Blue, Red, Yellow
b. Secondary Triad – Orange, Green, Violet
c. Intermediate Triad – Yellow – green, Yellow- orange, Red-orange, Red –
violet, Blue – violet, Blue- green