ART STYLES AND

FACTORS
AFFECTING
• Every artist has his way of
presenting his work. Such as
called art style. Such style is
affected by the following
factors: geographical,
historical, social, ideational,
psychological, and technical.
• Geographical factors

• The place where artist stays

influence his works. Marble
sculptures are
plenty in Romblon because marble

abounds in that province.

• Historical Factors

• Historical events exert a great influence

on artists, particularly writers. Jose
Rizal’s novels, Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, graphically highlights the
events that took place in the country
during the last century of Hispanic rule.
• Social Factors

• Social relationship affects

artists, too. The English writer
Ben Jonson composed his “Song
to Celia”, the Italian sonneteer
Francesco Petrarch wrote poems
fo hi lady love named Laura.
• Ideational Factors
• The ideas coming from various people
also influence artists. The Father of
Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud ,
proposed ideas that have influenced
surrealist painters. The idea that
the human body is the most beautiful
figure to present as an art subject gave
rise to the school of thought called
nudism.
• Psychological Factors
• At times, the works produced by the
artists are affected by their
psychological make-up frame of mind.
For instance, the first painting of
Edward Munch, “The Sick Child”, is an
effect of his unfortunate childhood
experience of contracting a long illness
after losing his loved one at an early
age.
• Technical Factors
• Techniques matter as far as an
artistic style are concerned. In
fact, painters employ a variety
of techniques to make their
works unique. Different brushes
produce different strokes.
 PRINCIPLES OF ART
 To come up with attractive artworks,
artist must be governed by the five
conventions of artistic compositions.
 The five principles of art are
harmony, balance, rhythm,
proportion and emphasis.
 HARMONY
 Most essential factor in a
composition
 Also called UNITY
 Achieved when all the elements of
a thing are put together to come
up with a coherent whole
HARMONY
 BALANCE
 Known as physical equilibrium
 Stability produced by even
distribution of weight on each side of
the thing
 Classified as FORMAL and INFORMAL
BALANCE
 4types of BALANCE
Symmetrical
Asymmetrical
Radial
Crystallographic
(mosaic)
 BALANCE

FORMAL BALANCE
 Exists if the weights at
equal distance from the
center are equal
 Also called symmetrical
balance
SYMMETRICAL BALANCE
 Bilateral BALANCE
Bilateral symmetry is
present when the left
and right sides appear
the same.
Bilateral BALANCE
 Radial BALANCE
 Radial symmetry exists when the
same measure occurs from the
central point to the end of every
radius.
 This symmetry applies to round
objects or those with radii like
stars and starfishes.
Radial BALANCE
Radial BALANCE
 CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC BALANCE

 It also called mosaic or all-over.

 refers to the more randomized
placements of art elements.
 this also creates harmony or
referred as organized chaos.
CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC BALANCE
 Informal BALANCE
 Informal balance is present when
the left and the right sides of the
thing, though not identical in
appearance, still display an even
distribution of weight.
 Also known as asymmetrical or
occult balance.
Informal BALANCE
Informal BALANCE
 rhythm
 Rhythm is the continuous
use of a motif or repetitive
pattern of a succession of
similar or identical items.
rhythm
 rhythm
 It can be achieved by alternation use of
two patterns alternately), radiation,
(repetition of motif from the center or
toward it), progression use of motifs of
varying sizes, that is, from the smallest to
largest, or vice versa), or parallelism use
of pattern with an equal distance from
each other.
 rhythm
 Rhythm is exemplified by concentric
circles, by an alteration of black and
white stripes, by checkered blue and
orange squares.
 It is characterized as repetitive,
continuous, or flowing.
 PROPORTION
 Comparative relationship of the
different parts in relation to the
whole.
 Proper and pleasing relationship
of one object with the others in
a design.
PROPORTION
 emphasis
 Giving proper importance on
one or more parts of the thing or
the whole thing itself.
 Achieved by means of size or
proportion, shape, color, line,
position, and variety.
emphasis
 emphasis
 More often than not, the artist
emphasizes the one with the bigger
size or proportion, the one with
different shape or color, the one
with striking lines, the one
positioned at the center and the
one that is unique.
CLASSIFICATION
OF ART
Visual Art
- Graphic Art
- Plastic Art
Audio-Visual Arts
Literary Arts
 Visual art
 Graphic arts
- those visual arts that have length
and width; thus they are also called
two-dimensional arts.
- described as flat arts because they
are seen on flat surfaces.
 Visual art
 Graphic arts
 Visual art
 Graphic arts
examples:
- Printing - Mechanical processes
- Painting - Computer Graphics
- Drawing - Photography
- Sketching
- Commercial art
 Visual art
 Visual arts are those forms
perceived by the eyes.
 Includes painting, sculpture, and
architecture.
 Also called spatial arts because
artworks produced under this genre
occupy space.
 Visual art
 Plastic arts
- Are those visual arts that have
length, width, and volume:
thus, they are called three-
dimensional arts.
plastic art
ceramic art
 Visual art
 Plastic arts
example:
-sculptor - theater design
-architecture - industrial design
-landscape -crafts and allied arts
-city planning design
-set design
 AUDIO-VISUAL ARTS
 Audio-visual arts are those forms
perceived by both ears (audio) and eyes
(video).
 Also called performing arts
 Examples: music (vocal, instrumental, and
mixed), dance(ethnologic, social an
theatrical), and drama tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy, farce, melodrama and etc.)
AUDIO-VISUAL ARTS
 LITERARY ARTS
 Literary arts are those presented in
the written mode and intended to be
read.
 Examples:
-prose (short stories, novels, essays, and
plays) and poetry narrative poems, lyric
poems, and dramatic poems).
LITERARY ARTS