Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

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CPAR
First Quarter – Module 6
Elements and Principle of Arts
 What I Need to Know

Paul Getty Museum defines contemporary arts as “arts

made and produced by artists living today. Today’s artists
work in and respond to a global environment that is
culturally diverse, technologically advancing, and
multifaceted.”
Contemporary art is not restricted to individual
experience but it is reflective of the world we live in. Events in
the world affect the Philippines.
Artwork that is created by today’s contemporary artists
has a world viewed is sensitive to changing times.

In your previous lesson, you are done knowing the

different Filipino artist’s roles and their contribution to
contemporary arts.

This module will provide you with information and

activities that will help you understand contemporary art
forms based on the elements and principles as well as with
the forms of arts from the different regions.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Evaluate contemporary art forms based on the elements

and principles
(CAR11//12CAP-0c-e-6); and
2. Compare forms of arts from the different regions
(CAR11//12CAP-0c-e-7)

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 What I Know
Directions: Choose the correct answer and write it on your
answer sheet.

1. What element of art uses mixing of unlikely materials to

produce an artwork?
A. Appropriation B. Hybridity C. Performance

2. What element of art evolves to emphasize spontaneous

elements of chance?
A. Space B. Performance C. Technology

3. What element of art combines the past from the present?

A. Hybridity B. Space C. Appropriation

4. What principle of art is characterized as repetitive, continuous

or flowing?
A. Proportion B. Balance C. Rhythm

5. What principle of art is also unity?

A. Harmony B. Rhythm C. Emphasis

6. What is an example of visual art?

A. drama B. drawing C. essays

7. What is an example of an audio-visual art?

A. sculpture B. novels C. theatrical play

8. What is an example of a literary art?

A. poems B. painting C. dance

9. What form of art is also called as spatial art?

A. audio-visual B. literary C. visual

10. What form of art is also called as performing arts?

A. audio-visual B. literary C. visual

For number 11-15. Identification. Identify the statement given.

___________________ 11. It is the area between and around surface.

___________________ 12. A principle of arts that achieved when the elements

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 of artwork come together in a unified way.

____________________ 13. It is the exploration of kinetic abstract art and

music or sound set in relation to each other.

____________________ 14. A visual art that has length, width, and volumes
and also known as three-dimensional arts.

____________________ 15. It achieved by means of size of proportion, shape,

color, and line position, and variety.

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 Lesson Elements and Principles
5 of Art

Art is produced by people and people are influenced by the

time, contemporary art is a continuing practice that has evolved
with the following elements and principles.

What’s In

ESSAY Question: If you were to create an art festival in your community,

how would you envision it? Which places would you like to activate as a site
of exhibitions and other related activities? What are your considerations in
making your selection? It can be in school, in the market grounds, in a
historic house, a public park, among others. Draw a map of your exhibition-
activity sites. Display it in the classroom’s bulletin board.

Essay Rubrics:

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 What’s New
Activity 1: Read Me! Understand Me!

Directions: Read the five contemporary art forms based on the

elements and principles as well as with the different forms
of arts from the different regions. Understand what you are
reading.

Although these concepts are not entirely unique to

contemporary art, many artists today often go beyond the traditional
elements and principles in their work by using new concepts and
approaches like the ones listed below.

Elements of Art:

1. Appropriation is when an artist creates a new work of art by

taking preexisting images from other sources and modifying
and/or incorporating those images with new ones.
2. Performance refers to artwork created by or presented to an
audience. Performance as an element can also include the
processes used by the artist to create the work. This takes
place when the process used to create the artwork is more
important than the finished work itself.
3. Space is the element of art through which both positive and
negative areas are defined or a sense of depth is achieved in a
work of art.
4. Hybridity is used in artists’ work through the blending of new
or unusual materials with traditional mediums. The
incorporation of these materials, such as recycled or industrial
materials, plays an important role in the meaning of the
artwork.
5. Technology refers to the usage of technological
advancements in the creation of artworks.

If the elements of art are your tools, the principles of art are
how you put them to work. It is where the style of art manipulates
its substance. Harmony, balance, rhythm, proportion, and
emphasis are the principles of art.

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Principles of Art:

1. Harmony. This is achieved when all the elements of a

thing are put together to come up with a coherent
whole.
2. Balance. Stability is produced by even distribution of
weight on each side of the thing.
3. Rhythm. This principle of art describes the movement
in or of an artwork. Rhythm is created by the variety
and repetition of elements in a work of art that come
together to create a visual tempo or beat.
4. Proportion. Within the realm of the elements and
principles of art, proportion is the relationship of
elements in an artwork to the whole and to one another.
5. Emphasis. Giving proper importance to one or more
parts of the thing or the whole thing itself.

Classification of Art Forms:

1. Visual Arts are those forms perceived by the eyes.

2. Audio-Visual Arts are those forms perceived by both
ears (audio) and eyes (video).
3. Literary Arts are those presented in the written mode
and intended to be read.

What Is It
Elements of Art

Appropriation

When you see t-shirt with the image of Jose Rizal wearing
shades or the walls of Intramuros in canvas bags, existing
artworks are “appropriated” to form another. The use of these
prints, images, and icons to produce another art form is a feature
of contemporary art that combines the past with the present. By
appropriation, the contemporary art revives interest to existing
form of art.

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Performance

Interpreting various human activities such as ordinary

activities like chores, routines, and rituals, to socially relevant
themes such as poverty, commercialism and war.

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Space

Arts transforming space. Space is the area between and around

objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative
space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is
three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of
depth, we call it space. For example, flash mobs, art installations in
malls and parks.

• Site specific forms- art form that is performed and

positioned in a specific space such as public places.

Hybridity

Contemporary artists are now as innovative as ever. In

traditional painting, only few materials are of conventional use.
Contemporary visual artists, on the other hand, may opt to use coffee
for painting or carve miniature sculptures using crayons. Hybridity
in contemporary arts as the mixing of unlikely materials to produce
an artwork.

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Technology

Technology is a reality in the present-day world, and

contemporary artist have used technology in the creation and
dissemination of works of art. When MTV first went into
airwaves in 1981, video became part of the human
interaction. The video phenomenon was further pushed by
debut of Youtube that allowed everyone with Internet
connection to post and share videos.
Contemporary artists have used video and Internet as
way of propagating art.

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 Principles of Art

Harmony

This is achieved when the elements of artwork come together

in a unified way. Certain element is repeated yet still look and feel
similar. Not monotony and not chaos, harmony is that perfectly
honed combination of both. This is the most essential factor in a
composition.

Balance

Artists combine elements to add a feeling of equilibrium

or stability to a work of art. Symmetry and asymmetry are
manifestations of balance. Classified as FORMAL and
INFORMAL BALANCE.

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1. Formal Balance- exists if the weights at equal
distance from the center are equal. It is also called
as symmetrical balance.

• Bilateral symmetry is present when the left and

right sides appear the same.

• Radial symmetry exist 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 stars and starfishes.

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Rhythm

Rhythm is the continuous use of a motif or repetitive

pattern of a succession of similar or identical items. It can be

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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 the largest, or
vice versa), parallelism (use of a pattern with an equal distance
from each other).

Rhythm-Radial Rhythm-Progression

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.

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Emphasis

Achieved by means of size or proportion, shape, color, line

position, and variety. More often than not, the artist emphasizes
the one with the bigger size or proportion, the one with a different
shape or color, the one with striking lines, the one positioned at
the center and the one that is unique.

Classification of Art Forms

Visual Arts

These are the arts that meet the eye and evoke an emotion
through an expression of skill and imagination. It includes
painting, sculpture, and architecture. Also called spatial arts
because artworks produced under this genre occupy space.

• Graphic Arts- those virtual arts that have length and

width; thus, they are also called two-dimensional arts.
They are described as flat arts because they are seen on
flat surfaces.

EXAMPLES: printing, painting, drawing, sketching,

commercial art, mechanical processes, computer
graphics, and photography

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 • Plastic Arts- are those visual arts that have
length, width, and volume; thus, they are
called three-dimensional arts.

EXAMPLES: sculpture, architecture, landscape,

city planning design, set design, theater design,
industrial design, crafts and allied arts

Audio-Visual Arts

Audiovisual art can be enjoyed by the senses of hearing and

sight. It is also called as performing arts. It is the exploration of

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kinetic abstract art and music or sound set in relation to each
other. It includes visual music, abstract film, audiovisual
performances and installations

Examples: music (vocal, instrumental, and mixed), dance

(ethnologic, social and theatrical), and drama (tragedy, comedy,
tragicomedy, farce, melodrama, etc.)

Literary Arts

The Literary Arts relate to the written word and include

writing, editing, critiquing, teaching, reviewing, and other
activities related to written communication. These activities take
place in a variety of settings, such as classrooms, writers'
workshops/centers, book and magazine publishing companies,
and libraries. The "book arts" are related to a book's physical
presentation and can involve its paper, binding, printing, or
design.

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EXAMPLES: prose (short stories, novels, essays, and plays) and
poetry (narrative poems,lyric poems, and dramatic poems)

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 What’s More
Match the Elements and Principles

Directions:
Match the illustration on Column A with the
corresponding element or principle on Column B.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

a. Appropriation

b. Technology
1.
c. Asymmetrical balance

d. Proportion

e. Progressional rhythm

f. Hybridity
2. g. Symmetrical balance

h. Radial Rhythm

i. Space

j. Emphasis

3.

4.

5.

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 What I Have Learned
Spot the Difference

Directions:
Cross (X) out the illustration that does NOT belong into
each Form of Arts.

1. Literary Arts

2. Audio-Visual Arts

3. Visual Arts

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4. Graphic Arts

5. Plastic Arts

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 What I Can Do

At this point, define the given element/principle/form of

arts in the space provided then collect examples of each from
online and/or print resources and categorize them into the
appropriate boxes.

Activity: Cut-Outs What you need

Long coupon bond paper, pencil/pen, cut-outs, scissors, and
paste/glue

Instructions

1. Format
i. Margin 1 inch all sides
ii. Margin line use red inked ballpen
iii. Bond paper size 8.5 x 13 / long bond paper
iv. Orientation landscape
v. Sample Outline

Complete Name Cut-Outs Date

(Last name, First name, M.I.) Performance
Task 1
Grade and Section Score

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Space Technology

Proportion Balance

Visual Arts Audi-Visual

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 Scoring the Output

Excelle Good Poor

Criteria nt (3) (1)
(5)
The content of The content of The content of
Relevance the output is the output is the output is
of Content very relevant to somewhat not relevant to
(x3) the topic. relevant to the the topic.
topic.
The output is
The output is The output
plagiarized
Originality unique. No has signs of
from the
(x2) signs of copied concept
internet or from
plagiarize from other
others output.
concept from output.
other output.

Shows Shows good Shows

excellent sense sense of art somewhat
Creativity of art and and creativity. sense of art
and Effort creativity. The output and creativity.
(x2) The output shows The output
shows clear somewhat shows little
representation representation representation
of their effort. of their effort. of their effort.

The output The output is

The output is
Organization shows organized and
disorganized
and organization of somewhat neat.
and very dirty.
Neatness input and very Has sorts of
Has too many
neat. No signs erasures.
erasures.
of dirtiness.
Project deadline
Deadline was Project met the
merely met.
Timeliness missed. deadline before
Exceeded
Exceeded days the time set
seconds on the
on the date of exactly the time
time set for
submission. set.
submission.
Total points 40/4
0

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 Assessment
Direction: Identify the word from the given statement. Write your
answer on the answer sheet.

____________________ 1. This principle of art describes the movement in

or of an artwork.

____________________ 2. Within the realm of the elements and principles

of art, the proportion is the relationship of
elements in artwork to the whole and to one
another.

____________________ 3. An art form that is performed and positioned

in a specific space such as public places.

____________________ 4. It is an artist that combine elements to add a

feeling of equilibrium or stability to a work of art

____________________ 5. It is present when the left and right sides

appear the same.

_________________ 6. A rhythm that uses a pattern with an equal

distance from each other.

____________________ 7. A virtual art that has length and width and is

also called two-dimensional arts.

____________________ 8. A classification of arts that meet the eye and

evoke emotion through an expression of skill
and imagination.

____________________ 9. It exists when the same measure occurs from the

central point to the end of every radius.

____________________ 10. Not monotony and not chaos, and it perfectly

honed a combination of both. This is the most
essential factor in composition.

____________________ 11. It refers to the usage of technological

advancements in the creation of artworks.

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____________________ 12. It is when an artist creates a new work of art by
taking preexisting images from other sources
and modifying and/or incorporating those
images with new ones.

____________________ 13. A classification of art that is those presented in

the written mode and intended to be read.

____________________ 14. It gives proper importance to one or more parts

of the thing or the whole thing itself.

____________________ 15. It interprets various human activities such as

ordinary activities like chores, routines, and
rituals, to socially relevant themes such as
poverty, commercialism and war.

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 Additional Activities

Directions:
Answer the question below using a separate sheet (1
whole sheet of paper). The explanation of each question must
not exceed 10 sentences. Failure to do so, 1 point will be
deducted to your total score. The rubric of the structured
essay is provided below the question.

Question:
1. Why are the Elements and Principles of Art Important?

Explanation:

Question:
2. How can you relate in your life the different Forms of
Art? Cite certain situations where you can apply it.

Explanation:

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 Rubric for Scoring the Structured Essay

Outstandi Goo Poor

Criteria ng d (1)
(5) (3)
Answer is Answer is Content is
Content Appropriate to appropriate to the unrelated to
/ the question. question. Content question.
Accurac Content is may have one or
y (x2) factually correct. two factual errors.
Develops each Each point Statements are
point with many supported with unsupported by
Development specific details. some details and any detail or
/ evidence. All explanation.
Transitio Answers important points Repetitious,
n of question are included. incoherent,
Ideas completely. illogical
development.
Uses technical Accurate word Limited
or scientific choice. No more vocabulary; errors
Use of terminology than 2 major impair
Language appropriately errors and a few communication.
/ and correctly. minor errors.
Grammar No major
grammatical or
spelling errors.
Total Score 20/2
0

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Answer Key
What I know What’s more

1. B 1.f
2. C 2.a
3. C 3.c
4. C 4.h
5. A 5.i
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. A
11. Space
12. Harmony
13. Audio-visual art
14. Plastic art
15. Emphasis

Assessment

1. Rhythm
2. Proportion
3. Site Specific Forms
4. Balance
5. Bilateral Symmetry
6. Parallelism
7. Graphic Art
8. Visual Art
9. Radial Symmetry
10. Harmony
11. Technology
12. Appropriation
13. Literary Art
14. Emphasis
15. Performance

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