Unit Iii
Unit Iii
Unit Iii
Unit III deals with Arts and Science: Elements, Medium, Design and
Technology. Learners will explore on The Darwinian Theory of Beauty and Art;
Media and Elements of Visual Art; Design and Principles of Composition;
Kinds of Visual Art; Application of Technology to Art Production, and The Art
of Selfie and Groupie.
At the end of this unit a learner is expected to:
a. Identify artworks, styles and artists that used principles of
science.
b. Analyze the chemical compositions of some media used in the
visual arts.
c. Evaluate the emergent art forms in the age of computer and
information technology by creating an art piece.
LESSON
3.1
The Darwinian Theory
of Beauty and Art
THE DARWINIAN
THEORY OF BEAUTY
AND ART
DENNIS DUTTON
(1944-2010)
Functioned as “fitness
signal” that the makers
used to attract mates,
hence giving the makers The peacocks shown
more chance of survival. its tail to attract
peahens.
Of course, a lot of people think they already know that the proper
answer to the question “What is beauty?” belongs to our evolved human
psychology. It’s in the eye of the beholder. It’s whatever moves you
personally; or, as some people, especially academics, prefer, beauty is in
the [End Page A314] culturally conditioned eye of the beholder. People
agree that paintings or movies or music are beautiful because their
cultures determine a uniformity of aesthetic taste.
Tastes for both natural beauty and for the arts travel across cultures with
great ease. Beethoven is adored in Japan. Peruvians love Japanese
woodblock prints. Inca sculptures are regarded as treasures in British
museums, while Shakespeare is translated into every major language of
the Earth. Or, just think about American jazz or American movies—well,
they go everywhere! There are many differences among the arts but there
are also universal, cross-cultural, aesthetic pleasures and values.
How can we explain this universality? The best answer lies in trying to
construct a Darwinian evolutionary history of our artistic and aesthetic
tastes. We need to reverse engineer our present artistic tastes and
preferences and explain how they came to be engraved in our minds by
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Note: rubrics for rating please refer to the rubrics of activity 1.1
Picasso
Woman
Reading
1923
Model was
Picasso’s
first wife,
Olga
Model was
Picasso’s
first wife,
Olga
Picasso
Portrait
Francois
Gilot
1946
The model
was Picasso’s
mistress
Picasso
Jacqueline
Now what with Flowers
can you say 1954
about
Picasso’s
painting?
Does his
The model
painting was Picasso’s
describes second wife.
his
personality?
MEDIA OF
PIGMENT MEDIA
PAINTING Paints (Oil, Acrylic)
Tempera
Fresco
SURFACE MEDIA Encaustic
Canvas Ink
Wood Panel Pastel
Wall (Mural) Water Color
Paper Charcoal
Mixed Media
Van Eyck
Arnolfini Marriage
1434
OIL ON CANVASS
First painting that
used this medium
Amorsolo
Woman with a Jar,
1954
OIL PAINT
CREATES
LUMINOUS EFFECT
ON THE CANVASS
FRESCO
Colored cement
on concrete wall
(palitada)
Michelangelo,
Painting in the Ceiling of
Sistine Chapel
1508-1512
FRESCO
Giotto
Adoration
of the Magi
1306
After the Restoration in the 1980’s: Colors looked bright and gave a sense newness
Final
Project of a
Humanities
Paintingsu Student
sing
Encaustic,
Water
color and WATER
Ink as COLOR ON
medium PAPER
INK ON PAPER
Christo
Iron Curtain
1961
INSTALLATION ART
This consists of a barricade of oil
barrels in a narrow Paris street
which caused a large traffic jam.
The artwork was not the barricade
itself but the resulting traffic jam.
CONCEPTUAL ART
The title is in reference with the
attempt of Soviet Union and its
allies to block itself from contact
with non-communist countries.
The artwork is made up of 90 tin cans, each filled with 30 grams of human feces.
As CONCEPTUAL ART, this is interpreted in relation to Karl Marx idea of commodity
fetishism in highly consumerist society. One tin can sold for 124,000 pounds in 2007.
Yoko Ono
Painting to
Hammer a Nail
1961
CONCEPTUAL ART
This consists of set of
instructions on how to
make art.
Yoko Ono
Yes! 1966
Painting to
John Lennon Hammer a Nail
met Yoko Ono.
Anyone can do
this following the
instruction by
Yoko Ono.
Reflection
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Paste your
documentation here
ELEMENTS OF ART
Point
Line
Shape
Value
Color
POINTILISM (DIVISIONISM)
by GEORGE SEURAT is a
style of painting that uses
point as the fundamental
structural element.
You see
many tiny
points.
LINE-
ZEN PAINTING
Buddhist Monk
Picasso
The Camel
DRAWING
Graphic Art
Drawings made up
of lines produced
by simple strokes of
the pen.
Oriental landscape
paintings usually have
vertical orientation
showing the height of
the world.
Korean
Landscape
Painting
of line work
in an art
piece The lines sliding above the horizon
means “Attack!”
David
Napoleon
Crossing
the Alps
“Attack!”
Carefully
observe the
flow of lines The
and its intersecting
diagonals
connotation produce
radial
balance
which
implies
movement
If we
Thick Line Thin Line
carefully
Strength Weakness analyze, we
Stability Flexibility can be able to
interpret an
art work
through the
composition of
line.
THICK THIN
COLUMN COLUMN
Looks Looks
strong weak
and and
stable flexible
What have
you observe
on the
direction of
The straight
your eye
lines create a
when you sense of order.
look at the
image
above? How
about Mondrian
below? Composition
with Red,
Yellow and
Blue
Hokusai
The Great
Wave Off
Kanagawa
1831
CURVE LINES
express the
emotion of
terror
BROKEN LINES
Express the
feeling of
sensuality
By looking at
the paintings,
do you agree
with what the
lines
expresses
De Kooning
Woman in for?
a Bicycle
WAYS OF
MAKING SHAPE
By the boundary of a line that
closes into itself (polygon),
in drawing
CURVILINEAR
(Biomorphic)
Shapes of
living things
IRREGULAR
Any possible
shape
Here are
some of
A wonderful the
shape found
example
in nature
s that
identifies
the use
of shape
how
the shapes
were
utilized in RECTILINEAR
an art work SHAPES look like
floating on empty
space.
People
immersed in
rectilinear
shapes suggest
the concept of
dehumanization
in cubist
paintings
Picasso
The Three
Musicians
Kandinsky
Several
Circles
1926
SHADE
L IG Dark area on the
HT surface of the
object
SHADOW
Dark area on
a receiving
surface
Vermeer
The Cook
Vermeer
The Music
Lesson
NORTH
Amorsolo
Ina at Anak
WEST EAST
SOUTH
SFUMATO
smoky effect
which creates
a sense of
mystery.
Rembrandt
Nightwatch
1640
There is
usually the
application
of deep
chiaroscuro
in BAROQUE
paintings.
Leonardo
Lady with an
Ermine, 1489
The application
of chiaroscuro
enhances the
shape of the
figure.
Van Gogh
Sunflower
IMPASTO
Thick paint
applied on the
canvass
COLOR
May be
considered
as the most
beautiful
visual
element
COLOR
Produced by
light striking
a surface.
Physical
Properties
HUE
VALUE
SATURATION
Mark Rothko
Untitled
1968
COLOR-FIELD
PAINTING
Painting style that
uses huge masses
of colors on the
surface.
LAPIS
LAZULI
ULTRAMARINE
BLUE Most expensive color
FAUVISM
Style of painting by
Matisse that uses
artificial colors for
stimulating effect.
Matisse
The Blue
Window
The dominance of
blue heightens the
feeling of sadness
and suffering
expressed by the
painting.
Kaleidoscope World
Reflection
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Paste your
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IN ARTISTIC FORM,
ORGANIZATION OF DESIGN…
…is about
“How are the answering
the
elements put question
together?”
HARMONY
VARIETY
BALANCE
DOMINANCE
It is the EQUALITY in
attention or attraction
of visual elements in
the picture-plane
Kind of
balance
according
to the
division of
picture-
plane
El Greco
The Burial
of Count
Orgaz
The horizontal
balance means
the division
between
heaven and
earth, between
the spiritual and
the material.
In this Egyptian
painting, the bigger
scale of the pharaoh
means his superior
dignity than ordinary
people.
Reflection
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Paste your
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(Shanken, 2009)
Selfie and groupie does not exist just now but even back in
time then. Only the difference is in the mode of capturing.
Let’s get back in time and discover...
Durer
Self-Portrait
In ancient time, 1498
painting of self-
portrait is the
mode of capturing
self of elite people
who could afford
to pay a painter.
EL GRECO
Domenicus
Theotokopoulus
(1574-1614)
Botticelli
Adoration of
the Magi
1475
Sandro Botticelli
(1445-1510)
El Greco
The Burial
of Count
Orgaz
1612
Raphael,
Self-Portrait
1509
Including
themselves as
part of the
painting is a
method of
taking groupie
Picasso
Self
Portrait Magritte
1907 The Pilgrim
1966
STYLE Juan Luna
Cubism Self Portrait STYLE
1870 Surrealism
Magritte Warhol
Self-Portrait Self Portrait
1923 1967
STYLE STYLE
Cubism Pop Art
Frida Kalo
Self Portrait
with Thorn
Necklace and
Hummingbird
1937
STYLE
Surrealism
John
Lennon
Nine Self-
Portrait
1968
Lichtenstein
Self Portrait
STYLE 1978
Pop Art
STYLE
Pop Art
REFLEX
CAMERA
1959
COMPACT
CAMERA
1939
POLAROID
CAMERA
1961 ANALOG
ELECTRONIC
CAMERA
1986
DIGITAL
CAMERA
1995
CELLPHONE
WITH
CELLPHONE DIGITAL
DIGITAL CAMERA
CAMERA
2004 WITH SELF-
FRONTING
LENS 2009
On the other
GROUPIE
hand .. A groupie is when a
person takes a photo
of oneself with other
people using a camera
or a phone (especially
for posting it on a
social media website).
- - - - - Reflection
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READINGS
3.1. Miller, Ellen (2004), “Introduction to Aesthetics” in
http://users.rowan.edu/~millere/Introduction %20
to%20Aesthetics.htm
VIDEOS