VISUAL

ARTS
Visual Arts
These are the arts that meet the eye and evoke an
emotion through an expression of skill and
imagination.
Art forms that create works that are primarily
visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting,
sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography,
video, film making and architecture.
Drawing
Drawing is creating a picture with
a variety of tools, in most cases pencils, crayons,
pens or markers. Artists draw on different types
of surfaces, like paper.
The first drawings were discovered in caves,
that date back about 30,000 years.
Drawing
◦ Lion Resting
◦ Rembrandt
◦ Date: 1650 - 1652
◦ Style: Baroque
◦ Genre: animal painting
◦ Media: ink, paper
◦ Location: Louvre, Paris,
France
Drawing
Painting
Painting is often called the most important form of visual art. It is
about putting colours on a canvas or a wall. Painters express their
ideas through a mixture of colours and different brush strokes .
Painting is also one of the oldest forms of visual art. In old caves
prehistoric people painted hunting scenes onto walls. Paintings
became important in ancient Egypt,
where tombs of pharaohs were covered with scenes of everyday
Egyptian life.
Painting
The most famous artists of the 17th century famous
painters during the Dutch Golden Age were, Rembrandt
and Vermeer.
During the last 200 years painters discovered new styles.
Impressionism began in France during the end of the 19th
century; Picasso created Cubism at the beginning of the
20th century.
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Fernando Amorsolo Juan Luna

Harvest Scene, 1942 Spoliarium, 1884

Anita Magsaysay-Ho Anita Magsaysay-Ho, first-
cousin to former president
Ramon Magsaysay, is one of the
Philippine’s pioneering
modernist painters. She was the
pupil of Fernando Amorsolo,
whose influence can sometimes
be seen in her landscape
artworks such as “Fish Harvest
At Dawn” and “Three Women In
A Landscape”.

Women Amidst Bananas, 1979

Printmaking
Printmaking is art that is made by covering a plate with
ink and pressing it on the surface of another object. Today
prints are mostly produced on paper today but originally,
they were pressed onto cloth or other objects.
The first prints were probably made in ancient Mesopotamia.
Later on they became popular in ancient Egypt and
China .Printmaking spread to Europe towards the end of the
Middle Ages.
Printmaking
Printmaking is art that is made by covering a plate with
ink and pressing it on the surface of another object. Today
prints are mostly produced on paper today but originally,
they were pressed onto cloth or other objects.
The first prints were probably made in ancient Mesopotamia.
Later on they became popular in ancient Egypt and
China .Printmaking spread to Europe towards the end of the
Middle Ages.
Photography
Photography is making pictures by letting light through
the lenses of a camera onto a film.
In analogue photography light was recorded onto a film,
which had to be chemically developed. Images could then
be printed onto special paper.
Today most photography is digital. Cameras have no
film, the images are recorded onto silicon chips.
Photography

19th century camera - Janez Novak

Photography

19th century camera - Janez Novak

Filmmaking
Filmmakers make moving images that they turn into films
.
It is a very expensive and complicated form of
art, involving many tasks, for
example scriptwriting, casting,
and editing film sequences before they can be shown to
an audience. A full-length feature film often takes many
weeks or months to produce.
Computer Art
is any art in which computers played a role in
production or display of the artwork
Today, art is no longer limited to brushes, paint
and pencils. In the last few decades artists have been
working with computers to capture images and
change them .
Sculpture
Sculptures are three-dimensional pieces of art that are
created by shaping various kinds of material. Among the
most popular are stone, steel, plastic, ceramics and wood.
Sculpture is often referred to as plastic arts.
In the Renaissance Michelangelo was one of
the masters of the art. His most famous piece of work was
David, a marble statue of a naked man.
Michelangelo's Moses David, a marble statue of a naked man.
Applied Arts
Applied arts is incorporating elements of stye and design
to everyday items with the aim of increasing their aesthetic
value.
Artists in this field bring beautya, charm, and comfort
into many things that were useful in everyday life.
Industrial design, interior design, fashion design and
graphic design.