UNIT III- ArtS and Science:

Elements, Medium, Design and

Technology

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)

“Art is a need built into

human biological system
through a complex, subtle
evolutionary adaptation.”

The Darwinian Theory of Beauty by Dennis Dutton” in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktUzdnBqW.

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 THE OLDEST
WORKS OF ART Analyze this facts…

ACHEULEAN HAND AXES

found in Olduvai Gorge
East Africa, dating back
to 2 million years ago

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.

And so, we can say that…

FROM ARCHEOLOGY THROUGH BIOLOGY TO ART

After million and thousands of years of

human evolution, the ACHEULEAN HAND AXES
have gradually developed into much more
complex and finer WORKS OF ART.

In short, artist makes art to get laid.

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A Darwinian Theory of Beauty
Denis Dutton

Following is a transcript of Denis Dutton’s talk at the “TED2010”

conference in Long Beach, California, delivered on February 13 as part of
the “Imagination” session.

IAM DELIGHTED TO be here and talk to you about a subject dear to my

heart: beauty. I do the philosophy of art—aesthetics—actually for a living. I
try to figure out intellectually, philosophically, and psychologically what the
experience of beauty is, what sensibly can be said about it, and how
people go off the rails in trying to understand it. Now, this is an extremely
complicated subject, in part because the things that we call beautiful are
so different. Just think of the sheer variety: a baby’s face, Berlioz’s Harold
in Italy, movies like The Wizard of the Oz and the plays of Chekhov, a
central California landscape, a Hokusai view of Mount Fuji, Der
Rosenkavalier, a stunning match-winning goal in a World Cup soccer
match, van Gogh’s Starry Night, a Jane Austen novel, Fred Astaire
dancing across the screen. This brief list includes human beings, natural
landforms, works of art, and skilled human actions. An account that
explains the essence of beauty of everything on this list is not going to be
easy. I can, however, give you at least a taste of what I regard as the most
powerful theory of beauty we yet have. And we get it, not from a
philosopher of art, not from a postmodern art theorist or a bigwig art
critic—no, this theory comes from an expert on barnacles and worms and
pigeon breeding, and you know who I mean: Charles Darwin.

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
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the actions of our largely prehistoric Pleistocene environment, where we
became fully human, but also the social situations in which we evolved.
This reverse engineering can also enlist help from human records
preserved in prehistory—I mean fossils, cave paintings, and so forth—and
it should take into account what we know of the aesthetic interests of
isolated hunter-gatherer bands that survived into the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.

Now, I personally have no doubt whatsoever that the experience of

beauty, with its emotional intensity and pleasure, belongs to our evolved
human psychology. The experience of beauty is one component in a
whole series of Darwinian adaptations. Beauty is an adaptive effect which
we extend and intensify in the creation and enjoyment of works of art and
entertainment.

As many of you will know, evolution operates by two main primary

mechanisms. The first of these is natural selection—that’s random
mutation and selective retention. Along with our basic anatomy and
physiology—the evolution of the pancreas, or the eye, or the finger-nails—
natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the smell of
rotting meat or fears such as fear of snakes or standing close to the edge
of the cliff. Natural selection also explains pleasures—sexual pleasures, or
our liking for sleep, fat.. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/559484/pdf)

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ACTIVITY 3.1
Do you believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Or do you agree
that it is merely an evolutionary trait that has been passed down from our
ancestors? Support your answer. (Answer the question in 7 to 10 sentences
for 10 points)

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Let’s get to know an artist…..

PICASSO’S AFFAIRS WITH WOMEN

• Had an insatiable sexual appetite, he started went to
brothel at age 13, and was a playboy all his life.
• Over the course of his life, Picasso had two wives, six
significant mistresses and hundreds of lovers.
• He left his first wife Olga Khokhlova for his pregnant
mistress Marie Therese Walter. He refused to divorce his
wife to prevent her from receiving half of his wealth. Olga
died by drinking herself to death.
• At 62, Picasso had an affair with a 23-year old art student Francois Gilot, who deserted
him after ten years because of Picasso’s cheating and abusiveness. Francois is said to be
the only woman who left Picasso.
• At 79, he married Jacqueline Roque, 35, who committed suicide 15 years after Picasso
died.

Olga Marie-Therese Francois Jacqueline

His art works…

Picasso
Woman
Reading
1923

Model was
Picasso’s
first wife,
Olga

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 Picasso
Woman
Reading
1923

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?

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LESSON
3.2 Media and Elements of
Visual Arts

MEDIA OF ART Substance or materials out of

which the work of art is made

PAINTING Surface (Canvas), Pigment (Oil Paint)

SCULPTURE Stone, Wood, Metal, Glass

ARCHITECTURE

MUSIC Human Voice, Musical Instruments

DANCE Motion of the Human Body

LITERATURE Written or Oral Language

Theater: Action and Spoken Language

DRAMA Motion Picture/Cinema/Movie: Film

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

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Meet the
art pieces OIL ON
utilizing WOOD PANEL
different
kinds of
Medium

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

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Enamel
on canvas
and
Fresco
painting
on a
concrete
surface.
kinds of

FRESCO
Colored cement
on concrete wall
(palitada)

Michelangelo,
Painting in the Ceiling of
Sistine Chapel
1508-1512

FRESCO

Giotto
Adoration
of the Magi
1306

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Before the Restoration in the 1980’s: Colors looked pale and gave a sense of antiquity

Frescoe Painting at Sistine Chapel

By: Michaelangelo

After the Restoration in the 1980’s: Colors looked bright and gave a sense newness

“Michelangelo and the Science of Fresco Painting: Chemistry

Meets Art,” in https://www.youtube. com/
watch?v=lUddM_Y_snQ.

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ENCAUSTIC Egyptian Paintings

Final
Project of a
Humanities
Paintingsu Student
sing
Encaustic,
Water
color and WATER
Ink as COLOR ON
medium PAPER

INK ON PAPER

Leonardo, Scientific Drawing, Design of War Chariot

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 SANITARY
NAPKIN
ART
Paintings
using
other
types of
mediums

COFFEE PAINTING Landscape, Alexander Dart

Joseph the Artist, Talentadong Pinoy SAND PAINTING

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 Robert, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake Utah, 1970
Composed of mud, sand, crystals and basalt rock.
ENVIRONMENTAL ART OR EARTHWORK

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.

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 Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961

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.

As artist in your own way, what is the best medium of art?

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ACTIVITY 3. 2
1. Based on the given example of art pieces ,
create an art work utilizing a medium of your
own desire.
Be creative and expand your perspective.
2. Document your art work (take a picture with
yourself) and paste it on the space provided.
3. Write a 7-10 sentences of reflection about
your art piece.

Reflection

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 Elements
of Visual Arts

ELEMENTS OF ART

PAINTING VISUAL: Points, Lines, Shape, Size, Value,

SCULPTURE Color, Texture

FORMAL: Lines, Shape, Size, Color, Space

ARCHITECTURE FUNCTIONAL: Roof, Wall, Floor

AUDITORY: Rhythm, Pitch, Melody,

MUSIC Harmony, Dynamics, Tempo, Timbre
KINESTHETIC: Body, Action, Space, Time,
DANCE Energy

LITERATURE LITERARY: Character, Theme. Plot, Point

of View, Setting, Conflict, Tone

DRAMA PERFORMATIVE: Actor, Acts, Script,

Dialogue, Scene, Props, Theater,

VISUAL ELEMENTS OF PAINTING

Point
Line
Shape
Value
Color

Sometimes TEXTURE and SPACE are included,

but primarily they are elements of sculpture
and architecture.

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POINT -
is the most basic visual element.
It has no dimension.

This is the pointillist masterpiece by Seurat, Sunday

Afternoon in the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1888

POINTILISM (DIVISIONISM)
by GEORGE SEURAT is a
style of painting that uses
point as the fundamental
structural element.

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Pointillism can be
identified easily
because…
If you look
closely at the
composition,
you will see
points.

You see
many tiny
points.

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Trivia time: Do you know that this painting of Seurat is…

Made up of four million dots in 77 square feet.

It took Seurat four years to compose.

LINE-

The second visual element

of painting is LINE.

Line is one dimensional.

Structurally, it is a path
of moving point, or
points in a series.

Based on this definition, it is appropriate to say,

according to Cezanne, that “drawing is
taking a line for a walk.”

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The second way of producing line is
by the INTERSECTION OF COLORS,
as in painting

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 And third, lines
are produced by the
INTERSECTION OF
CONTOURS, as in
sculpture and
architecture

ZEN PAINTING
Buddhist Monk

Here are the

example line
Art works.
Observe the
Predominance
similarities. of lines in Japanese
calligraphy and drawing.

Picasso, The Dove of Peace

Lines found in nature,

such as in a spider web.

Picasso
The Camel

DRAWING
Graphic Art

Drawings made up
of lines produced
by simple strokes of
the pen.

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Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1492 LINEAR PAINTING

Trivia time: Do you know that…

It is said that Boticelli painted the hair of Venus one by one,

using a very thin brush made up of a single strand.

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KINDS OF LINES AND THEIR SUGGESTIVE
EXPRESSIONS AND MEANINGS

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 Yuan Jiang,
Island of the
Immortals
(Penglai Shan)
1708
Let’s
analyze the
composition of lines
in an art piece

Oriental landscape
paintings usually have
vertical orientation
showing the height of
the world.

Korean
Landscape
Painting

Constable, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816

Western landscape paintings usually have horizontal orientation showing

the wideness of the world.

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Observe how
the Francisco,
Bonifacio,
composition 1964

of line work
in an art
piece The lines sliding above the horizon
means “Attack!”

David
Napoleon
Crossing
the Alps

“Attack!”

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 Titian
Bacchus
and
Ariadne

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

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 STRAIGHT LINE Order
Reason

CURVE LINE Motion

Emotion

BROKEN LINE Chaos

Passion

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

Riley, Waves OP ART

Right, in the
upper image
the eye
travels left to The curve lines
right, up to suggest motion.
down, while
on the image
below it
carries the
eyesight on
a wavy
direction

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 Let’s
how lines
work in an
art piece

The curve lines

suggest emotion.

Picasso, Guernica, 1937

The broken lines express the chaos and horror of war.

CURVE LINES heighten the movement of the waves

Hokusai
The Great
Wave Off
Kanagawa
1831

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 Munch
The Scream

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

Pollock, Black and White, 1952

In this action painting, the curve lines are traces of

the movement by the painter.

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SHAPE- Boundary or the edges of an object

WAYS OF
MAKING SHAPE
By the boundary of a line that
closes into itself (polygon),
in drawing

By the boundary of color,

in painting.

By the boundary of contour,

in sculpture and architecture

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 KINDS
RECTILINEAR
Shapes of
objects

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

A fascinating shape of an ordinary object

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 Malevich
Suprematist
Composition
On 1914

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

Fernand Leger, Women in an Interior , 1921

The curvilinear shapes of the head and body suggest life.

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 Picasso, Girl in
a Mirror, 1932

The curvilinear shapes

show the form of the
female body meant for
reproduction, such as the
breasts and
the womb.

The diamond shapes at

the background indicate
the female genital.

Dali, Face of a Great Masturbator.

There are shapes like of melting people and objects in surrealism.

Kandinsky
Several
Circles
1926

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VALUE- Refers to the application of light and dark
in the painting

WAYS OF PRODUCING VALUE

 Shading
 Shadowing

SHADE
L IG Dark area on the
HT surface of the
object

SHADOW
Dark area on
a receiving
surface

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 The sunlight passing
through a window
and entering the
interior of a house, is
typical in Vermeer’s
paintings.

Vermeer
The Cook

Vermeer
The Music
Lesson

NORTH
Amorsolo
Ina at Anak

WEST EAST

SOUTH

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Chiaroscuro
effect in CHIAROSCURO
painting Application of
light and dark

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.

Dark and light enhances the solidity of figures.

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 TEXTURE- Sense of touch

Suggest the feeling of smoothness and roughness

Van Gogh
Sunflower

IMPASTO
Thick paint
applied on the
canvass

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COLOR

COLOR
May be
considered
as the most
beautiful
visual
element

COLOR
Produced by
light striking
a surface.

Physical
Properties
HUE
VALUE
SATURATION

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Remember
DARK colors
tends to
recede and
BRIGHT
colors tends
to advance

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 PAINTINGS
WITH COLORS

Mark Rothko
Untitled
1968

COLOR-FIELD
PAINTING
Painting style that
uses huge masses
of colors on the
surface.

Van Der Wayden

The Deposition, 1438

LAPIS
LAZULI
ULTRAMARINE
BLUE Most expensive color

FAUVISM
Style of painting by
Matisse that uses
artificial colors for
stimulating effect.

Matisse
The Blue
Window

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 Picasso
The Old
Guitarist

The dominance of
blue heightens the
feeling of sadness
and suffering
expressed by the
painting.

Kaleidoscope World

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ACTIVITY 3. 2
1. Based on the example of art pieces, create an
art work utilizing an element and medium of
your own desire (ex. Pointilism painting).
Be creative and expand your perspective.
2. Document your art work (take a picture with
yourself) and paste it on the space provided.
3. Write a 7-10 sentences of reflection about
your art piece.

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LESSON
3.3 Principles of Design
and Composition

We are all familiar

with this painting
by Leonardo,
The Last Supper.
This famous Renaissance art
will introduce you to the
principles of . . .

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 This is called BALANCE

The next one is called FOCUSING

This painting shows theT principle of FOCUSING

This is the “Last Supper” by LeonardoJ Da Vinci. On this painting JESUS

is the focus which is at the center most of the piece.

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 HARMONY
In this lesson,
you will learn VARIETY
likewise the SYMMETRY
following:
ORGANIZATION
DOMINANCE
HIGHLIGHTING

IN ARTISTIC FORM,
ORGANIZATION OF DESIGN…

…is about
“How are the answering
the
elements put question
together?”

AND TO ACHIEVE FORMAL DESIGN, THE

FOLLOWING PRINCIPLE ARE APPLIED:

HARMONY
VARIETY
BALANCE
DOMINANCE

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Harmony and variety are achieved by moderation.
Having just enough. Not much nor less

Monotony and redundancy are the result of either

lack or excess. Having to much or less

This is REDUNDANT This is MONOTONOUS

This design has HARMONY

& VARIETY

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 …is another
BALANCE principle of
design.

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

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Let’s analyze
an art work

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 David,
Oath of
Horatii

Three vertical divisions indicated by the columns.

El Greco
The Burial
of Count
Orgaz

The horizontal
balance means
the division
between
heaven and
earth, between
the spiritual and
the material.

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D
O
M
I
N
A
N
C
E
HIGLIGHTING

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 HIGHLIGHTING
BY SIZE

In this Egyptian
painting, the bigger
scale of the pharaoh
means his superior
dignity than ordinary
people.

Landscape paintings usually have no dominance,

so that the eyes may feel relax.

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ACTIVITY 3.3
1. Create an art work/painting integrating the
principle of design and composition (Harmony,
Variety, Balance & Dominance).
2. Be creative and expand your perspective.
3. Document your art work (take a picture with
yourself) and paste it on the space provided.
4. Write a 7-10 sentences of reflection of
your art piece.

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LESSON
3.4 Application Technology
to Art Production

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Advances in electronics, computing and telecommunications, and especially
the advent of the Internet, have provided tools that enable artists to
interrogate the conventional materiality and semiotic complexity of art
objects.

Information processing technology influences our notions about creativity,

perception and the limits of art. . . . It is probably not the province of
computers and other telecommunication devices to produce works of art as
we know it; but they will, in fact, be instrumental in redefining the entire
area of esthetic awareness.

(Shanken, 2009)

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 LESSON
3.5 The Art of Selfie and
Groupie

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.

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 Take a look in some of the art pieces of selfie and
groupie in the past…

EL GRECO
Domenicus
Theotokopoulus
(1574-1614)

Botticelli
Adoration of
the Magi
1475

Sandro Botticelli
(1445-1510)

El Greco
The Burial
of Count
Orgaz
1612

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 Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511

Raphael,
Self-Portrait
1509

Including
themselves as
part of the
painting is a
method of
taking groupie

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Examples of self-portrait of different art movement…

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

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Development of CAMERA as tool of capturing images

CAMERA OBSCURA BOX

CAMERA
1878
First used in 1031 AD

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

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 SELFIE
A self-portrait photograph,
typically taken with a digital
camera or camera phone with
self-fronting lens held in the
hand or supported by a selfie
stick (especially for posting it on
a social media website).

The word “selfie” first appeared

in an Australian Internet Forum
in September 2, 2002.

Proclaimed as the Word of the

Year in 2013 by the editors of
Oxford English Dictionary

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).

Please read an article:

SELF-PORTRAITS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: THE RISE OF THE SELFIE

(http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22511650)
SELFIES BEYOND SELF-REPRESENTATION: THE (THEORITICAL) F(R)ICTIONS
OF A PRACTICE (by: Edgar Gomez Cruz and Helen Thornham) Journal of
Aesthetics & Culture, vol. 7, 2015

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Let’s come to know this…

SELFIE IS BECOMING POPULAR

“A search on photo sharing app
Instagram retrieves over 23 million
photos uploaded with the hashtag
#selfie, and a whopping 51 million
with the hashtag #me.”
“Teenagers in America are sharing
more information than ever about
themselves on social media. Of
those studied, 91% post photos of
WHY are SELFIES IS themselves online - up from 79% in
BECOMING POPULAR IN THE 2006.”
SOCIAL MEDIA?
CREATION OF SELF-IDENTITY
“Selfie tells other people how
we want to be seen.”
"A selfie is an expression of an
active online identity,
something you have some
control over. You might take
lots, but you'll publish the
ones you like - even if they are
silly or unflattering."

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WHY HAVE A LOT OF SELFIES?
LACK OF A PERMANENT
AND FIXED SELF-DENTITY
To create images of oneself for other
people to see, but these images are
perceived to be fleeting and constantly
changing, so that they need to be
modified and revised at all times.
JUSTIN BIEBER: KING OF SELFIE

SELFIES FOR VANITY AND NARCISSISM

SELFIES FOR SELF-AFFIRMATION

No or very little followers

in social media.
Not well recognized by
relatives and closed
friends.
Seek recognition from the
unknown others in the
social media.

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ACTIVITY 3.5 & 3.6
1. Scan your photo gallery on your cellphone and choose an existing
group picture.
2. Ask a selfie photo of those who were present in a group picture.
3. Make a digital copy of the selfies and the groupie to a laptop, and
arrange them using either Adobe Photoshop Paint, Power Point or any
other applications of your choice.
4. Be creative and expand your perspective in doing your output.
5. Post your output in the social media. Watch out for the number of likes.
6. After 5 days screen shot your post showing the number of likes.
7. Print your output and paste it on the space provided.
8. Write a 7-10 sentences of reflection of your art piece.

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Documentation

Paste your printed

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Supplementary Readings and Videos

READINGS
3.1. Miller, Ellen (2004), “Introduction to Aesthetics” in
http://users.rowan.edu/~millere/Introduction %20
to%20Aesthetics.htm

3.2. Jocano, Landa F (2001). “Aesthetic Dimension,” in

Filipino Worldview, Quezon City: PUNLAD Research
House, 2001. pp.135-144.

3.3. Lloren, Gregg S (2011). “Horror Vacui and the Pinoy

Inclination for Filling Up Every Inch of Space” in
https://www.academia.edu.

VIDEOS

3.1. “Japan Minimalists: A New Way of Life,” https://

www.youtube.com/watch? v=ACUE_Y67qlk.

3.2. “Pop Art Jeepney in the Lovely Philippines,” in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxt8YziLy8Q

3.3. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon” (1972), in

https://www.youtube.com/watch7v=BJ99YMQzs

3.4. “Piliin Mo ang Pilipinas,” https://www.youtube.

com/results?search_query=piliin+mo+ang+pilipin
as+angeline+quinto+official+music+video

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