WEIVING

MASCARA FESTIVAL
DURIAN SCULPTURE
FILIPINIANA DRESS
ITIK-ITIK
GONG/AGONG
MAITUM JAR
 Chapter 1:
integrative art as applied to
contemporary art
Lesson 1: An Introduction to the Arts
Understanding the Arts
According to Marcos(2006), the word art supplies
various meanings, including ability, process and product.
The term art used to simply refer to any skill or
mastery that is manifested in the outstanding product. It
is a process because it involves artistically interesting and
appealing manner. The language of art is diverse. Art
expresses feelings and ideas shared by all individuals
regardless of culture. According to Aristotle, art is a
reflection or a mirror of reality.
Some says, art reflects the characteristics of period
and through art, we gain awareness that the people
during the old stone age manifested their artistry by
drawing and sketching.
 Two Types of Subject Matter

1. Representational
Art
➢It can easily see 2. Non-
identifiable figures representational Art
or objects. ➢It does not depict
recognizable objects
 FORM
➢ The specific quality of an artistic expression
which includes all the visual aspects of the
work that can be isolated and described.
 CONTENT
➢ it is what art is all about.
➢ it contains the message that the artist is
trying to express or communicate.
 MEDIUM
➢ it is the instrument of the artist in translating
his feelings and thoughts into form.
➢ it could be the substance the artwork is made
from.
 TECHNIQUE
➢ it how well an artist knows and uses his
medium in achieving what he wants in his
creation.
➢It is how he selects and arranges his materials
to achieve a specific effect.
 TASK 3: Engage yourself!
Instructions: look around you. Take a picture and
choose one thing that you consider a work of
art. Why do you consider it is an art?
 TASK 4: “There’s more arts in the
Philippines”
Instructions: See the pictures below. Identify
what composition of art?
1. 2. 2.

3. 4. 5.
o EMPHASIS
o UNITY
o VARIETY