THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL

ARTS IN EDUCATION
 Brain research confirms that Arts education strengthens
student problem-solving and critical thinking skills, adding to
overall academic achievement, school success, and
preparation for the work world.
 Art classes provide students a chance to develop cognitive
and creative skills, and to develop their imaginations.
 For some students, Art is their motivation for coming to
school and an area where they have success or excel,
providing an important balance in their total educational
experience.
 The arts teach our students to be more tolerant and open
through multicultural and historical perspective and through
their involvement in the creative process itself.
Why does art
need criticism?
Art needs criticism because it needs something
outside of itself as a place of reflection,
discernment, and connection with the larger
world. Art for art’s sake is fine, if you can get it.
But then the connection to the real becomes
tenuous, and the connection to the social
disappears. If you want to engage, if you want
discourse, you need criticism (Campbell, 2012).
What is
semiotic?
 Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders
Peirce are the founders of semiotics.
 Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and
their use or interpretations.
 The word semiotics is derived from the ancient
Greek word “semeion” which means sign.
What is sign?
 Signs can take many forms. They can be words,
numbers, sounds, photographs, paintings and road
signs and more.
 A sign is anything that creates meaning.
 It’s anything that can be used to represent something
else.
 
VISUAL ARTS
 Drawing
 Painting

 Printmaking

 Photography

 Computer art

 Sculpture

 Film-making
FUNCTIONS OF ART
 The Physical function
 The Social function

 The Personal function

 The Motivated function

 Communication

 Art as an entertainment

 The avante- grande/ political change

 Art for Psychological/ healing purposes

 Art for Social inquiry

 Art for Propaganda

The Five Elements of Art -
Definition and Examples
Do you know an answer to a question What
are the elements of art exactly? Traditional way
of looking at art, namely the visual arts,
suggests that there are five basic elements of
an art work – line, shape, color,
texture and space. 
LINE
A line is mathematically defined as a path that
connects two dots or a path of an imagined
moving dot. In reality, we tend to simplify all
elements that are greater in length than in
width, depth or diameter, and to perceive them
as lines. The line is particularly important for one
other reason as well, and it is its potential to
convey the personal touch of an artist. As
discussed above, lines are the primary tools of
artistic expression, and therefore analogous to
handwriting in terms of expressing individuality.
A freeform line drawn by a single individual is
generally inimitable, which ultimately helps us
recognize the author of a painting or a drawing
when there is no name attached.
SHAPE
Shapes are defined as two-dimensional
figures that we can discern as familiar. These
include geometric shapes (deployed by cubists,
for example), organic (which you may find
among the examples of Art Nouveau posters
and paintings), abstract, etc.
SPACE
Space is often illusively recreated in a
painting or a drawing, realistically or in a
distorted manner. At times, the word-space
is used conditionally, to refer to the two-
dimensional negative space left in the piece
of canvas or paper. A “blank”, or simply
negative space, is sometimes a constituent
part of an artwork.
COLOR and TEXTURE
Finally, two qualities that strike us in everyday life
and serve as an inexhaustible source of inspiration
are color and texture, both of which have been
studied, both in arts and science, for centuries. Color
is the light reflected off objects, perceived in
different hues depending on the wavelength. Texture
is the quality of a surface, which is a sensation
perceivable by the skin rather than the eyes.
However, we have been able to build knowledge of
how particularly looking surfaces and materials feel,
thanks to their palpable qualities and our experience
with them. This means that translating the
characteristics of a surface onto a plane makes us
experience texture through vision, as the painters
exhibit their skill in representing the texture
truthfully. Texture can also be a special quality
relating to the body of painting itself, one that
displays the visible brush strokes as an integral part
of the painting.