Creative Writing

SPECIAL PROGRAM IN THE ARTS 7

Quarter 1
Module 2
Commonality and Distinguishing
Principles of Artistic Organization
SPA-Creative Writing 7
Quarter 1 – Module 2: Commonality and Distinguishing Principles of Artistic
Organization Edition 2020

Republic Act 8293, Section 176 states that no copyright shall subsist in
any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the
government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for
exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things,
impose as a condition the payment of royalties.

Borrowed materials (i.e., songs, stories, poems, pictures, photos, brand

names, trademarks, etc.) included in this module are owned by their respective
copyright holders. Every effort has been exerted to locate and seek permission to
use these materials from their respective copyright owners. The publisher and
authors do not represent nor claim ownership over them.

Published by the Department of Education - Schools Division of Pasig City

Development Team of the Self-Learning Module

Writer: Mitchelle H. Macatimpag
Editor: Melanie G. Logdat
Reviewers: Alma D. Coronado
Illustrator: Edison P. Clet
Layout Artist: Elinette B. Dela Cruz
Management Team: Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin
OIC-Schools Division Superintendent
Aurelio G. Alfonso EdD
OIC-Assistant Schools Division Superintendent
Victor M. Javeña EdD
Chief, School Governance and Operations Division and
OIC-Chief, Curriculum Implementation Division

Education Program Supervisors

Librada L. Agon EdD (EPP/TLE/TVL/TVE)

Liza A. Alvarez (Science/STEM/SSP)
Bernard R. Balitao (AP/HUMSS)
Joselito E. Calios (English/SPFL/GAS)
Norlyn D. Conde EdD (MAPEH/SPA/SPS/HOPE/A&D/Sports)
Wilma Q. Del Rosario (LRMS/ADM)
Ma. Teresita E. Herrera EdD (Filipino/GAS/Piling Larang)
Perlita M. Ignacio PhD (EsP)
Dulce O. Santos PhD (Kindergarten/MTB-MLE)
Teresita P. Tagulao EdD (Mathematics/ABM)

Printed in the Philippines by Department of Education – Schools Division of

Pasig City.
Creative Writing 7
Module 2
CommonalityQuarter 1
and Distinguishing
Principles of Artistic Organization
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the SPA Creative Writing 7 Self-Learning Module on

Commonality and Distinguishing Principles of Artistic Organization.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and

independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims
to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the SPA Creative Writing 7 Self-Learning Module on

Commonality and Distinguishing Principles of Artistic Organization.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an
active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module. 

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

Most Essential Learning Competencies

 Analyzes the commonality and distinguishing principles of
artistic organization common in all the arts.

Specific Objectives
 Identify the principles of Art
 Differentiate the different principles of Art
 Explain the common features of an Art

PRETEST

Direction: Write True if the statement is correct and False if it is not.

_______1. Asymmetry, in which both sides of a composition have the same
elements in the same position, as in a mirror-image, or the two
sides of a face.
_______2. Movement is the regular repetition of elements such as line, shape
and forms to create interest and consistency.
_______3. Art is understood as any activity or product done by people with a
communicative or aesthetic purpose.
_______4. Pattern decorates the artwork with regularly repeated elements
such as shapes or color.
_______5. Unity is the difference between elements in a composition.
 RECAP

In your previous lesson, we studied about commonality and elements

of artistic expressions.
Line, color, shape, form, value, space, and texture are the seven core
elements of art and they often overlap one another. Whether talking about
drawing, painting, sculpture, or design, these components of art all need to
be taken into consideration. Any person will be able to view artwork in a
more meaningful way by learning more about these elements.
Now we are going to study about Commonality and Distinguishing
Principles of Artistic Organization.

LESSON

ART and DESIGN

Art is a notoriously gray area when it comes to defining what is great
and what is not. While Art maybe understood as any activity or product
done by people with a communicative or aesthetic purpose, the principles of
art help combat this gray area to some extent. They allow us to
communicate what makes a great painting great with an element of
objectivity and consistency.
A design plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or
workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made. It
is proper arrangement of the different art elements in order to produce
something beautiful.
An artist should intentionally arrange the elements of art using the
principles of organization to create a unified artwork.
PRINCIPLES OF ART
The principles of art (or the principles of design) are essentially a set of
criteria which are used to explain how the visual elements are arranged in a
work of art.
BALANCE
Balance is the distribution of visual weight in an artwork. The three
types of balance are symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial.

a. Symmetry, in which both sides of a composition have the same elements

in the same position, as in a mirror-image, or the two sides of a face.
b. Asymmetry, in which the composition is balanced due to the contrast of
any of the elements of art. For example, a large circle on one side of a
composition might be balanced by a small square on the other side
c. Radial symmetry, in which elements are equally spaced around a central
point, as in the spokes coming out of the hub of a bicycle tire.

Symmetrical Asymmetrical
(Pietro Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to (James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement
St. Peter, 1481–1482) in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s
Mother known as “Whistler’s Mother,” 1871)

Radial
(Gothic Rose Windows-Interior and Exterior of
the rose at Strasbourg Cathedral, France)
 CONTRAST
As a principle of art, contrast refers to the arrangement of opposite
elements and effects. For example, light and dark colors, smooth and rough
textures, large and small shapes. Contrast can be used to create variety,
visual interest, and drama in an artwork.

Caravaggio Käthe Kollwitz

Crucifixion of St. Peter, 1601 Misery, 1897

EMPHASIS
Emphasis is the creation of a focal point in an artwork. Emphasis
draws the viewer’s eye to particular areas of the artwork first.
Artists create emphasis by contrasting the elements of art, such as
color or shape.

Ferdinand Amorsolo
Planting Rice
 PATTERN
Pattern decorates the artwork with regularly repeated elements such
as shapes or color. Pattern recognition is a fundamental function of the
human brain—in fact of all animals, and it can apply to visual images but
also sound and smell. It allows us to take in and quickly understand our
environments.
Pattern is not always obvious. It could be a simple underlying design
which dances between light and dark in some kind of sequence or it could
be the use of similar color patterns throughout the artwork

Philippine Indigenous Fabrics Masskara Festival

UNITY
Variety within elements adds interest to the composition. It refers to
some kind of connection between all the visual elements in a work of art.
Unity means that all elements within the artwork are in harmony.
Generally speaking, it refers to how well all the visual elements work
together in a work of art. Elements which are in harmony should have some
kind of logical progression or relationship. If there is an element which is not
in harmony with the rest of an artwork, it should stick-out and be hard to
look at.

Rome, Italy, Colosseum, 70-80 AD

Edvard Munch,
The Scream,1893
 MOVEMENT
Movement is how the eye travels through an artwork.
Movement can be thought of in two ways – the first refers to how an
artist depicts movement using the elements and principles of art. The
second way refers to the visual flow of an artwork, indicated by the path a
viewer’s eyes take as they look at the artwork.
Movement can lead the viewer from one aspect to another within the
composition. Lines, edges, shapes, and colors can be utilized by the artist to
point the way through an artwork as a map for our eyes to follow.

Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province, 1830

RHYTHM
Rhythm is the regular repetition of elements such as line, shape and
forms to create interest and consistency. It creates a visual tempo in
artworks and provides a path for the viewer’s eye to follow.
Unlike pattern, which demands consistency, rhythm relies on variety.

Silk Patadyong

ACTIVITIES
 DAY 1
ACTIVITY 1- Matching Type

DIRECTION: Match the words in Column A to its meaning in Column B.

A B
_____ 1. Contrast a. It is how the eye travels through an
artwork.
_____ 2. Movement b. It means that all elements within the
artwork are in harmony.
_____ 3. Pattern c. This refers to the arrangement of
opposite elements and effects.
_____ 4. Rhythm d. It decorates the artwork with regularly
repeated elements.
_____ 5. Balance e. It is the distribution of visual weight in
an artwork
f. It creates a visual tempo in artworks and
provides a path for the viewer’s eye to
follow.

DAY 2&3

ACTIVITY 2 – Use the Principle of Art

You are going to create 8 simple dot designs in the boxes below, make
use of unique and colourful elements. Remember:

1. Use a short bond paper, fold it into 8 boxes.

2. Use only two colors per design (keep it simple).
3. Dots must be round and colored solid.
4. Dots within each design should vary in size (change can be sudden
or gradual but is important for providing contrast, thereby avoiding
“chicken tracking”).
5. Dots may “follow the leader,” touch, overlap, stack on top of each
other, run off the edge of the paper, etc.
 WRAP–UP

The principles of design are how those building blocks are arranged:
contrast, rhythm, proportion, balance, unity, emphasis, movement, and variety.
They are the ways an artist can organize the elements of art to create a wide range
of effects.

VALUING

Connecting with art makes us more empathetic and strengthens the fabric of
society. In the age of the internet, understanding how and why a certain artwork
looks that way can empower students with information and make them aware of
manipulation.

“Creativity takes courage.”

― Henri Matisse

POST TEST

MULTIPLE CHOICE
DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the correct answer.

________1. It produced to show the look and function or workings of a

building, garment, or other object before it is built or made.

A. Art B. Design Plan C. Painting

________2. These are essentially a set of criteria which are used to explain
how the visual elements are arranged in a work of art.

A. Elements of Art

B. Art Appreciation

C. Principles of Art

________3. It can lead the viewer from one aspect to another within the
composition.

A. Movement B. Pattern C. Unity

________4. Why do we need to set criterias or guidelines in viewing an

Artwork?

A. Artists and creators make more powerful works when they

use the principles of art.
B. Artist can easily manipulate the viewers through their works.
C. It is important to know and be aware of how an artist created
their work.
________5. A principle in which both sides of a composition have the same
elements in the same position, as in a mirror-image, or the two
sides of a face.

A. Asymmetrical
B. Symmetrical
C. Radial symmetry

KEY TO CORRECTION

PRE TEST ACTIVITY 1 POST TEST

1. False 1. C 1. B
2. False 2. A 2. C
3. True 3. D 3. A
4. True 4. F 4. A
5. True 5. E 5. B
 REFERENCES

“Artworks that shows Balance” Available at

https://artclasscurator.com/artworks-that-show-balance/ Accessed August
25, 2020
“Principles of Design and its examples” Available at
https://artclasscurator.com/principles-of-designexamples/Accessed August
26, 2020
“Principles of Art” Available at https://theartofeducation.edu/ Accessed
August 25, 2020
“Principles of Art” Available at https://drawpaintacademy.com/principles-
of-art/Available Accessed August 25, 2020
Masskara Festival Photo Available at
https://500px.com/photo/19290125/Masskara-Festival-by-Wilfredo-
Lumagbas-Jr/ Accessed August 25, 2020
“The 7 Principles of Art and Design” Available at
https://www.liveabout.com/principles-of-art-and design/. Accessed August
25, 2020

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
_____________________________________________
EDISON P. CLET
 Illustration

ELINETTE B. DELA CRUZ

Project Development Officer II (LRMS)
Lay-out Artist

MELANIE G. LOGDAT /DEMOSTHENES B. SORIANO

Validator
MARIVIC D. LISING
MAPEH Department Head

GILBERT O. INOCENCIO
Rizal High School
School Head

NORLYN D. CONDE
MAPEH Education Program Supervisor

RODOLFO B. MANUEL/ROLANDO C. JULIAN

Public Schools District Supervisor