SUBJECT: ART APPRECIATION

QUIZ#3 CHAPTER3

Explain the Following:

1. Medium of the Visual Arts

- It refers to the materials that the Artist used.
It means that the Artist communicate by his art.

2. Paintings (give examples)

- It is how the Artist's show what they want to express. It’s the expression of ideas and emotions.

 Oil
- oil painting, painting in oil colors, a medium consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils. The
outstanding facility with which fusion of tones or color is achieved makes it unique among fluid painting
mediums; at the same time, satisfactory linear treatment and crisp effects are easily obtained.

 Water Color
- Watercolor compares in range and variety with any other painting method.
Transparent watercolor allows for a freshness and luminosity in its washes and for a deft calligraphic
brushwork that makes it a most alluring medium.
 Pastel
- These drawing crayons, called pastels, are made of powdered pigments combined with a
minimum of no greasy binder. Made in a wide range of colour values, the darkest in each hue
consists of pure pigment and binder, the others having varying admixtures of inert whites.

 Fresco
- It is a method of painting water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on wall
surfaces. The colors’, which are made by grinding dry-powder pigments in pure water, dry and
set with the plaster to become a permanent part of the wall. Fresco painting is ideal for making
murals because it lends itself to a monumental style, is durable, and has a matte surface.
3. Famous Filipino Painters

 Fernando Amorsolo
- Fernando Amorsolo painted and sketched more than ten thousand pieces over his lifetime using
natural and backlighting techniques. His most known works are of the dalagang Filipina,
landscapes of his Filipino homeland, portraits and WWII war scenes. Fernando Amorsolo used
family members as subjects for many of his sketches and paintings. Instead of painting
landscapes with bright sun filled skies, he did works that portrayed the human suffering and
wartime scenes along with self portraits and the Japanese occupation soldiers of the time. Many
of these paintings were exhibited in the Malacanang presidential palace in 1948
 Fabian Dela Rosa
- Fabián de la Rosa was a Filipino painter who was born in 1869.Fabián de la Rosa's work has been
offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 391 USD to 612,614 USD,
depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at
auction is 612,614 USD for Women Weaving Hats, sold at León Gallery, Makati in 2017.The artist
died in 1937.
 Carlos “Botong” Francisco
- Carlos V. Francisco (November 4, 1912 – March 31, 1969), popularly known as “Botong”, was a
muralist from Angono, Rizal. Francisco was a most distinguished practitioner of mural painting
for many decades and best known for his historical pieces. He was one of the first Filipino
modernists along with Galo Ocampo and Victorio C. Edades who broke away from Fernando
Amorsolo's romanticism of Philippine scenes.
 Jose Jaya
- Born in Manila on June 3, 1931, Jose Joya is considered the pioneer and foremost abstract
expressionist painter of the Philippines. His work is “characterized by calligraphic gestures
and linear forces, and a sense of color vibrancy emanating from an Oriental sensibility.” The
spectrums of colors native to the tropical Philippine landscape are believed to have been the
source of Joya’s vibrant, yet harmonious palette.

4. Sculpture
 Wood
- It is an art form, includes any kind of sculpture in wood, from the decorative bas-relief on small
objects to life-size figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations. The woods used
vary greatly in hardness and grain. The most commonly employed woods include boxwood,
pine, pear, walnut, willow, oak, and ebony. The tools are simple gouges, chisels, wooden
mallets, and pointed instruments. Although they were universally one of the earliest art media,
wood carvings have withstood poorly the vicissitudes of time and climate.
 Ivory
- Ivory carving, the carving or shaping of ivory into sculptures, ornaments, and decorative or
utilitarian articles. Elephant tusks have been the main source of ivory used for such carvings,
although the tusks of walrus and other ivory-bearing mammals have also been worked.
 Stone and Bronze
- Stone, for century’s sculptors have used stone for figurative carvings and ornamental
architectural work. Different types of stone were used in different regions as sculptors used
materials that were geologically available nearby. Different types of limestone were utilized all
over Europe, and alabaster was popular in England, northern France, the Netherlands, Germany
and Spain. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and often contains lead or zinc. It is strong and
durable, but can also capture the fine, complex detailing inside a casting mould. The term
'bronze' is sometimes used for other metals such as brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc.