Republic of the Philippines

Province of Cebu
City of Talisay
TALISAY CITY COLLEGE
Poblacion, Talisay City, Cebu
1st Semester, Academic Year 2022-2023

RVA ELECT – READING VISUAL ARTS

Social and Behavioral
Module Writer MARIA FREGIE G. EJERCITO Department
Sciences
Reviewer MARIA FREGIE G. EJERCITO

Course Facilitator Contact No.

Program & Year Credit Units 3
This course will survey techniques, composition, materials terminology, and culture and
social influences of art forms. The class is presented in lecture format and is visually
oriented. Generally, laboratory in nature, Intro to Art explores and gives experience in
Course Description
two-dimensional (drawing, painting, printmaking) and three-dimensional (sculpture,
ceramics, textiles) formats and integrates art history, design principles, and aesthetic
criticism and response.
At the end of this course, the students create an innovative and useful artifact for
one’s profession or industry.

Teacher Education
Instructional Materials for Demo-Teaching
Culminating Outcome
Hospitality Management
Food Carving

Industrial Technology
Installation Art
Recognize arts in different definition through a gathered information and forms of
Prelim Unit Outcome
identified themes of art.

Student’s Name Curricular Yr.& Sec.

Contact No. Time Allotment
Residence Inclusive Date/s

Course Material 1 Living with Art

CONTENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 What is art? At the end of this course material, you will
a. Art and Audience  Identify arts on daily life.
b. Art and Beauty  Explain the relationship of art and its Audience, Beauty,
c. Art and Appearances Appearances, Meaning and Objects.
d. Art and Meaning  Define art.
e. Art and Objects
ENGAGE
Let’s start the discussion with a quote, “Art speaks where words are unable to speak” by Threadless Artist
Mathiole, a Brazil-based artist who was influenced by the world’s rich diversity.

Think of a picture that you really want to do. It could be a craving for food, or a long trip you planned with your
family or friends. With eyes closed, let your face reacts. Would you be smiling? Or would you frown thinking that
these were impossible to happen? You are in corner of your room thinking what could possibly happen after finding
out that your best friend has betrayed you for someone. Or you are mad because your mom doesn’t allow you to
go out late with friends. All the thinking and imagining such things affects your mood and emotion, right?

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 The question is, how would you react to all of this? How will you survive the day dealing with these different
feelings? Some of you will say they’ll have diversion – watch movies, listen to music, go out with peers and etc.
Some will choose to be alone in their favorite place.

Imagine a world without these beautiful things that helps you calm your spirit. Imagine a place without
something that you can appreciate whenever you’re not well. Imagine a picture without those variety of colors that
entertain your eyes and motivate your soul to make something that is worth it. Imagine a friend that do not inspire
you to become better. Imagine a family that doesn’t support and believe you. Imagine a paradise without beauty.

Who would speak when you seek for an answer? Who would speak when you can’t utter a simple word? Art
does. Art will.

Think of a situation that witness an encounter of art. Refer to your personal experience.

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Look everywhere. Everything has its story. The tress. The benches. The children. The buildings. The shadow.
The road. The sand. The beach. The people. And you.

The act of giving yourself a chance to express its true emotions is an art. We live with art. It is everywhere. It is
what you see. It is what you feel. It is sometimes, what you touch. And even, what you taste. Art speaks even if
your mouth is silent.

As we understand, art is form through personal expression made with creativity and imagination. Objects like
painting, drawing, sculptures, drafting, sketching are products of art. Dancing, acting and singing are performances
made by art which also form from personal expression and emotions. Art involves feelings and this is how it affects
us personally. We call ourselves an artist because we create arts our own way. We plan. We make statements both
social and political. We raise questions. Solve problems. We teach and appreciate everything. We are inspired by
what we see around us, including seasons. We reminisce and make art out of memories. We model ourselves and
personal encounters on an artwork and show it to people. We learn what we needed to learn. Collect. Reflect. We
do have fun. Make people happy. And just like any other artist in the world, we imagine. Art comes first through our
mind and that is our imagination, and imagination as we define it as the ability of our mind to picture things out,
often those that are not seen in the real world.

The question now is, are you ready?

EXPLORE
SKILL BOX
DEFINITION AND RESEARCH

 Note down the important terms.

 Create an outline of the lesson for easy
understanding.
 Sort out the most significant meaning of
art based on own understanding down to
less necessary.
 Visit the sources given.
 Do your own research.

INTRODUCTION

Earth itself is an art.

Art existed even before the very beginning of human

history. When humans came, they made art a tool in
surviving life on Earth without even realizing it was the
so-called art.

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 Early humans made fires from stone.
Early humans carved stones Early humans carved/drew animals on the (above)
stone/caves. (above)
to help him hunt his meal. (above) to warm themselves.

Early humans survived life using art as their tools and language
in communicating. On Stone Age era, art started became
visible. The structure of Stonehenge is one impressive proof.

There are theories about Stonehenge was built. Did it serve some
purpose? The discovery explained that it is oriented to the
movements of the sun, in the 20th century. This is an example of
how old and how basic is our urge to create meaningful order
and form. (right)

WHAT IS ART?

Art is something that has great value in our society. From museums, to pleasant shopping districts, public
libraries and well-maintained parks. From daring structures to abandoned industrial buildings reclaimed as
exhibition spaces or new museums that are encourage by the city government to attract tourists. Art is also made
available in many ways, such as galleries, illustrated books, exhibition catalogues, photographs, calendars, coffee
mugs and other merchandise.

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 Anything that is form of personal expression made with
creativity and imagination is an art. This includes objects like
paintings, drawings, sketching, crafting, sculpture, printing and
etc. Performances like dancing, singing and acting is also an art.
A person that creates art is called an artist.

The most common identification of an artist is the so-called

“outsider artist”, or the self-taught artist which means an artist
that has little or no formal training in the visual arts. The
popularity of outsider art today is a result of the most
progressive aspect of our modernity.

(“Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General

Assembly”, James Hampton) (left)
(for clearer picture, please see on Google search with above description)

James Hampton has no particular timing in art and the only

audience he ever sought was himself. He is an American outsider
artist from Washington, DC. who worked as a janitor.

Our modern ideas about art carry with the ideas about the person who makes it, the artist; and the people it is
for, the audience.

 ARTIST AND AUDIENCE

(“Fisherman’s Cottage on the Cliff at Varengeville”, Claude Monet,1882) (left)

(for clearer picture, please see on Google search with above description)

The work of Claude Monet (an Impressionist painter) is the kind of painting
that almost everyone finds easy to like. The colors are clear and bright; no
difficult subject matter that needs explaining.

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 The artist and audience depend on one another to fulfil their roles. Artist as creators, and audience as recipients.

Task 1: What do you prefer? Be an artist? Or be an audience?

 ART AND BEAUTY

Beauty is deeply linked to our thinking about art. Aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that studies art also studies
the nature of beauty. Most of us assume that a work of art should be beautiful, and even its entire purpose is to
be beautiful. As art becomes the product of our emotions, thoughts and desires, beauty is rather a measure of
effect and emotion; it is the gauge of successful communication between participants – artists and perceiver.

(“Pieta”, Giovanni Bellini, 1465-1516) (left)

(for clearer picture, please see on Google search with above description)

Task 2: Paste an example of a beautiful art, and explain why you find it beautiful.

 ART AND APPEARANCE

For hundreds of years, Western art was distinguished among the artistic traditions of the world. The elevation of
painting and sculpture to higher status during the Renaissance had gone hand in hand with the discovery of new
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 methods for making optically convincing representations. From that time until almost the end of the 19 th century,
a period about 500 years, techniques for representing the observable world of light and shadow and color and
space.

A. REPRESENTATIONAL C. ABSTRACT
This appearance covers a broad range Abstract does not attempt to represent an accu-
of approaches (naturalistic), and is clearly rate depiction of a visual reality but instead use
recognizable for what it claims to be. Shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to

(The First Communion, Picasso, 1896) (below) achieve its effect.

(Seated Woman Holding a Fan) (above)

B. NONREPRESENTATIONAL ART D. STYLE
These are compositions that does not rely on A work of art that has its
place in the visible
representation to any extent. It depicts shapes, world itself. It has its own appearance which is
colors, lines but may also express things that the result of the artist’s effort. Style is a term
are not visible (e.g. emotions and feelings). that help us categorize art by its non
appearance. It refers to a characteristic on a
group of characteristics that we recognize as
constant, recurring or coherent.

(“Composition IX”, Wassily Kandinsky,1936) (above)

(“Hairdressing”, Kitagawa Utamaro, 1798-99)

(above)

(For clearer picture, please see on Google search with above descriptions)

 ART AND MEANING

“What is the artist trying to say?”
Meaning in art is rarely so simple and straightforward. Art inspires interpretations that are many and changeable.
Meaning is what distinguishes art from other kinds of skilled working. Art is always about something.

There are Four (4) Key terms related to meaning:

Form and Content – Form is the way a work of art looks; includes all visual aspects of the work that can be
isolated and described, such as size, shape, materials, color and composition. Content is what a work of art is about.
For representational and abstract works, content begins with the objects or events the work depicts its subject

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matter. As we experience how form and subject matter interact, we begin to interpret the work, and content
shades into meaning.

Iconography – “describing images”, involves identifying, describing and interpreting subject matter in art. It is an
important activity of scholars who study art, and their work helps us understand meanings that we might not be
able to see for ourselves.

Context - Art does not happen in a vacuum. Strong ties bind a work of art to the life of its creator, to the tradition
it grows from the respond to, to the audience it was made for, and to the society in which it circulated. These
circumstances form the content of art, its web of connections to the larger world of human culture.

 ART AND OBJECTS

A slight shift in perspective is all it takes to open up new ways of thinking. A painting, for example, is indeed an
object. It is also the result of a process, the activity of the painting.

LEARNING CHECK:
Looking at this as a meaningful art, how would you define art in your daily life?

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LEARNING CHECK:
Why do you call yourself an artist?

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