Lecture 7 Art and Science: all his life.

Elements, Medium, Design Over the course of his life, Picasso had two
and Technology wives, six significant mistresses and hundreds
of lovers.
LECTURE 7.1 He left his first wife Olga Khokhlova for his
The Darwinian Theory pregnant mistress Marie Therese Walter. He
of Beauty and Art refused to divorce his wife to prevent her from
receiving half of his wealth. Olga died by
DENNIS DUTTON
drinking herself to death.
(1944-2010)
At 62, Picasso had an affair with a 23-year old
“Art is a need built art student Francois Gilot, who deserted him
into human biological after ten years because of Picasso’s cheating
system through a and abusiveness. Francois is said to be the only
complex, subtle woman who left Picasso.
evolutionary At 79, he married Jacqueline Roque, 35, who
adaptation.”
committed suicide 15 years after Picasso died.

THE OLDEST WORKS OF ART

ACHEULEAN HAND AXES

found in Olduvai Gorge
East Africa, dating back
to 2 million years ago Picasso, Woman Reading, 1923
Model was Picasso’s first wife,
Functioned as “fitness
signal” that the makers
Olga
used to attract mates,
hence giving the makers
more chance of survival.

Picasso, Green Leaves and Bust,

The peacocks shown its 1932
tail to attract peahens.

The model was Picasso’s

mistress Marie Therese.

The most expensive painting in

FROM ARCHEOLOGY THROUGH BIOLOGY TO the world sold for 106.5 million
ART dollars in 2010
After million and thousands of years of
human evolution, the ACHEULEAN HAND AXES
have gradually developed into much more
complex and finer WORKS OF ART. Picasso, Portrait Francois Gilot,
In short, artist makes art to get laid. 1946

PICASSO’S AFFAIRS WITH WOMEN The model was Picasso’s

Had an insatiable sexual appetite, he started mistress
went to brothel at age 13, and was a playboy
 Picasso
Jacqueline with Flowers OIL ON WOOD
1954 PANEL

The model was Picasso’s second

wife.

LECTURE 7.2Media and Elements of Visual Arts

Van Eyck, Arnolfini
MEDIA ART -Substance or materials out of Marriage 1434
which the work of art is made
OIL ON CANVASS
PAINTING - Surface (Canvas), Pigment (Oil First painting that
Paint) used this medium

SCULPTURE
ARCHITECTURE -Stone, Wood, Metal, Glass
Amorsolo
MUSIC- Human Voice, Musical Instruments Woman with a Jar,
1954
DANCE - Motion of the Human Body
OIL PAINT CREATES
LITERATURE - Written or Oral Language LUMINOUS EFFECT
ON THE CANVASS
DRAMA - Theater: Action and Spoken Language
Motion Picture/Cinema/Movie: Film ENAMEL OR HOUSE
PAINT ON CANVAS
MEDIA OF PAINTING
Pollock, Lavender
SURFACE MEDIA Mist, 1947
Canvas
Wood Panel FRESCO
Wall (Mural) Colored cement on
Paper concrete wall
(palitada)
PIGMENT MEDIA
Paints (Oil, Acrylic) Michelangelo,
Tempera Painting in the
Fresco Ceiling of Sistine
Encaustic Chapel
Ink 1508-1512
Pastel
Water Color Before the
Charcoal Restoration in the
Mixed Media 1980’s: Colors
looked pale and gave
a sense of antiquity
 After the Restoration
in the 1980’s: Colors
looked bright and
gave a sense
newness
Joseph the Artist,
Talentadong Pinoy
SAND PAINTING

FRESCO Robert, Spiral Jetty, Great

Salt Lake Utah, 1970
Giotto Composed of mud, sand,
Adoration crystals and basalt rock.
of the Magi ENVIRONMENTAL ART OR
1306 EARTHWORK

Christo
Iron Curtain
1961
ENCAUSTIC INSTALLATION ART
Egyptian Paintings This consists of a barricade of oil
barrels in a narrow Paris street
which caused a large traffic jam.
The artwork was not the
barricade itself but the resulting
traffic jam.

CONCEPTUAL ART
Final The title is in reference with the
attempt of Soviet Union and its
Project of a allies to block itself from contact
Humanities Student with non-communist countries.

Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961

WATER
The artwork is made up of 90 tin
COLOR ON cans, each filled with 30 grams
PAPER of human feces.
As CONCEPTUAL ART, this is
interpreted in relation to Karl
Marx idea of commodity
fetishism in highly consumerist
INK ON PAPER society. One tin can sold for
124,000 pounds in 2007.

Leonardo, Scientific
Yoko Ono
Drawing, Design of Painting to
War Chariot Hammer a Nail
1961

CONCEPTUAL ART
This consists of set of
SANITARY NAPKIN instructions on how to make art.
ART

Painting to
Hammer a Nail
COFFEE PAINTING
Anyone can do this following the
Landscape, instruction by Yoko Ono.

Alexander Dart
 fundamental structural element.
Yoko Ono
Yes! 1966 This is the
pointillist
John Lennon masterpiece by
met Yoko Ono. Seurat, Sunday
Afternoon in the
Island of La Grande
Jatte, 1888

ELEMENTS OF ART If you look closely

at the composition,
PAINTING SCULPTURE - VISUAL: Points, Lines, you will see points.
Shape, Size, Value, Color, Texture
You see many tiny
points.
ARCHITECTURE - FORMAL: Lines, Shape, Size,
Color, Space FUNCTIONAL: Roof, Wall, Floor

MUSIC - AUDITORY: Rhythm, Pitch, Melody,

Harmony, Dynamics, Tempo, Timbre

DANCE - KINESTHETIC: Body, Action, Space,

Time, Energy

LITERATURE - LITERARY: Character, Theme.

Plot, Point of View, Setting, Conflict, Tone PRINCIPLE OF VISUAL MIXING

DRAMA - PERFORMATIVE: Actor, Acts, Script,

Dialogue, Scene, Props, Theater,

VISUAL ELEMENTS OF PAINTING

Point
Line
Shape
Value
Color

Sometimes TEXTURE and SPACE are included,

Made up of four
but primarily they are elements of sculpture million dots in 77
and architecture. square feet. It took
Seurat four years to
POINT - is the most basic visual element. compose.
It has no dimension.

POINTILISM (DIVISIONISM) by GEORGE SEURAT

is a style of painting that uses point as the
 Picasso The
Camel
The second visual element of painting is LINE.
DRAWING
Line is one dimensional. Structurally, it is a Graphic Art
path of moving point, or points in a series.
Drawings made up
of lines produced
Based on this definition, it is appropriate to by simple strokes
say, according to Cezanne, that “drawing is of the pen.
taking a line for a walk.”

THERE ARE THREE WAYS OF PRODUCING LINES.

The second way of producing line is

by the INTERSECTION OF COLORS, as in
painting

And third, lines are produced by the

INTERSECTION OF CONTOURS, as in sculpture
and architecture

ZEN PAINTING
Buddhist Monk

Predominance
of lines in
Japanese
calligraphy and
drawing.
LINES IN CHILDREN’S DRAWING
Drawings, Amanda Regina Orate

Vertical lines create an illusion of narrowness

and tallness

Horizontal lines produce an illusion of

wideness and shortness.

Yuan Jiang,
Island of the
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1492 Immortals
LINEAR PAINTING (Penglai Shan)
1708

Oriental landscape
paintings usually
have vertical
orientation
showing the height
of the world.

It is said that Boticelli painted the hair of Venus Korean

one by one, using a very thin brush made up of Landscape Painting
a single strand.

KINDS OF LINES AND THEIR SUGGESTIVE

EXPRESSIONS AND MEANINGS

HORIZONTAL LINE - Suggest peace, rest, death

VERTICAL LINE - Activity, life

Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816
Western landscape paintings usually have
horizontal orientation showing the wideness of
the world.

Bierstadt, Sierra Nevada Mountain, California,

1868
SHAPE - Boundary or the edges of an object

WAYS OF MAKING SHAPE - By the boundary of

a line that closes into itself (polygon), in
drawing

By the boundary of color, in painting.

By the boundary of contour, in sculpture and

architecture
 Ways of producing value

SHADING
SHADOWING

VALUE - Refers to the application of light and

dark in the painting
PAINTINGS WITH COLORS
LECTURE 7.3 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AND
COMPOSITION
 In this lecture, you will likewise learn the
following:

Harmony
Variety
Symmetry
Organization
Dominance
Centralizing
Highlighting

ARTISTIC FORM,ORGANIZATION OR DESIGN is

about answering the question.

“How are the elements put together?”

To achieve formal design, the following

principles are applied:

HARMONY
VARIETY
BALANCE
DOMINANCE