ART comes from the word “ars” which means skill.

-Is human ingenuity in adapting natural things to man’s use.

FUNCTIONS OF ART
1. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL FUNCTION
Arts are vehicles for the artists' expression of their feelings and ideas. The arts also serve as
means of expression for us.

The therapeutic value of music cannot be ignored.

Works of art make us aware of other ways of thinking, feeling, and imagining that have never
occurred to us before.

2. SOCIAL FUNCTION
It expresses or describes social or collective aspects of existence as opposed to individual
and personal kind of experiences.

3. Physical Functions
Tools and containers are objects which function to make our lives
physically comfortable. Functional works of art may be classified as
either tools or containers.

Tell whether the following is a tool or container.

1. a spoon - tool
2. a car- tool
3. a building- container
4. a community - container
5. a ceramic vase - container
6. a chair.- container
 4. AESTHETIC FUNCTION
It is concern with the nature of beauty and taste

CONTEMPORARY means modern or new.

CONTEMPORARY ART- means art produces at the present period in time.

ELEMENTS OF ARTS means the building blocks or ingredients of art.

 LINE- Is a series of connected dots or a prolongation of a point to show the shape or form of
any piece of art.

Classifications of LINES
1. Vertical lines
2. Horizontal lines
3. Diagonal lines
4. Broken or jagged lines
5. Straight lines 6. Curved lines
7. Repeating lines
8. Contrasting lines
COLOR- is the most important and noticeable of all the
elements of visual arts.

The Three Properties of Color

 Hue -the color name
 Value - the lightness or darkness of the color.
Yellow is the lightest in value; violet is the darkest.
 Intensity -the saturation of color, purity, chroma,
brightness/dullness

PRIMARY COLORS
1. BLUE
2. RED
3. YELLOW

SECONDARY COLORS
1. GREEN
2. ORANGE
3. VIOLET

INTERMEDIATE COLORS
1. RED VIOLET
2. RED ORANGE
3. YELLOW GREEN
4. YELLOW ORANGE
5. BLUE GREEN
6. BLUE VIOLET
PHILIPPINE ART HISTORY

PRE-COLONIAL ART PERIOD (6185 BC TO 1520 AD)

 AGE OF HORTICULTURE/NEOLITHIC PERIOD (6185 to 4,400 BC)
 METAL AGE (3190 to 190 BC)
 IRON AGE (200 BC TO 1000 BC)

Local communities are being established and art starts to go beyond mere craft, i.e. stone
weapons or jewelry but starts to have decorative elements, meaning and context.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)
Espinosa Ranch Site, Cagayan 16000-8000 BC
The proof of earliest man's presence was recovered from a ranch site in Cagayan Province two flake
tools dated about 9 million years, the oldest man-made object associated with the fossils of a
proboscidean, a prehistoric elephant. Other flake tools are recovered in Tabon Caves, Palawan and
some stone tools in Bolobok Cave, Sanga-Sanga in Tawi-Tawi

NOTABLE ART PIECES/ ART WORKS

 Shell Bracelets and Pendants (Neolithic)
 Cagayan, Palawan, and Sorsogon 4854 BC
 Shells were fashioned into tools, as well as ornaments. The oldest known ornaments made
from cone shells were found in the early 1960's in the grave of an adult male in Duyong Cave in
Palawan. A shell disk with a hole in the center was found next to his right ear and a disk with a
hole by the edge was found on his chest. The shell omaments were dated 4854 B.C.

 Agono Petroglyphs are oldest known work of art in the Philippines located in the province of
Rizal. There are 127 human and animal figures engraved on the rockwall probably carved
during the late early times.

IMPORTANT ART WORKS

 Lingling-o (2000 BC - 1000 AD)
 Duyong Cave, Palawan