Introducti

on to Fine
Arts
Kim Elianie L. Cullamat, LPT
OBJECTIVES:

 Explain what is Fine Arts.

 Enumerate and discuss the Fine
Arts category.
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What is Fine Arts?
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 The term "fine art" refers to an art form practiced mainly
for its aesthetic value and its beauty ("art for art's sake")
rather than its functional value. Fine art is rooted in
drawing and design-based works such as painting,
printmaking, and sculpture. It is often contrasted with "
applied art" and "crafts" which are both traditionally seen
as utilitarian activities. Other non-design-based activities
regarded as fine arts, include photography and
architecture, although the latter is best understood as an
applied art.
 "a visual art considered to have been created primarily for
aesthetic and intellectual purposes and judged for its
beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting,
sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.
WHAT ARE
THE
CATEGORIES
OF FINE
ARTS?
CATEGORIES
Drawing.
Painting.
Printmaking.
Calligraphy.
Sculpture.
Architecture.
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1. Drawing
 May be defined as the linear realization of visual objects. These include
symbols and even abstract forms which are characterized by an emphasis on
form or shape.
 Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another
two-dimensional surface. The instrument might be pencils, crayons, pens with
inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern
times, computer styluses with graphics tablets.
 Drawing is one of the oldest forms
of human expression within the
visual arts. It is generally concerned
with the marking of lines and
areas of tone onto paper/other
material, where the accurate
representation of the visual world is
expressed upon a plane surface.
Traditional drawings were
monochrome, or at least had little
color, while modern colored-pencil
drawings may approach or cross a
boundary between drawing and
painting.
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2. Painting
 The art of applying color, or other organic or synthetic substances, to
various surfaces like a canvass, paper, wood or plaster to create a
representational, imaginative, or abstract picture or design. The
medium that is applied basically to create a painting is brush but
other implemented airbrushes, knives, sponges, etc.
 In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of
the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for
paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood,
glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting
may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay,
paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects.
 Painting is an important form of
visual art, bringing in elements such
as drawing, composition, gesture,
narration, and abstraction. Paintings
can be naturalistic and
representational (as in still life and
landscape painting), photographic,
abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in
Symbolist art), emotive (as in
Expressionism) or political in nature
(as in Artivism).
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a) Oil- Oil paintings are one of the
oldest forms of painting and remain
one of the most popular painting
medium types to this day. When
painting in oils it’s easy to blend
colors, but can be difficult to erase
mistakes meaning it can be a difficult
medium to master. Some of the
world’s most famous paintings were
painted in oils, with portraits being a
particular specialty of many artists
who work in this medium.
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b) Acrylic- Only dating back to
1940, acrylic is a relatively new
painting medium. It dries quickly,
is versatile, and can be very
durable. If you make a mistake
using acrylic paints you can even
scrape them off if you act quickly.
Many pop artists used acrylic in
their works, with the famous
Campbell Soup Can a particular
example of acrylic art.
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c) Watercolor- watercolor paints

tend to be inexpensive to purchase
but, similar to oil paints, difficult to
master. Paints are diluted with water
meaning they can go a long way
from a single tube, but once the
paints are on the canvas there is
little that can be done to correct
mistakes. Watercolor paintings work
beautifully with light and are often
used to paint landscapes.
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d) Encaustic- Encaustic painting is

an ancient method of infusing color
into a surface, usually wood, canvas,
or even tile. Pigments are added to a
wax which is then heated and added
to the surface, giving a luminous
color with strong dimensional
qualities.
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e) Fresco- Frescoes are traditionally
a quite large-scale painting medium,
as they are usually applied over a
layer of freshly laid lime plaster. This
method allows the paint and
pigment to bond with the plater,
making the image integral to the
surface. Many famous frescoes have
been painted throughout history,
including The Creation of Adam
and The Last Supper.
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f) Tempera- Tempera is an artistic
medium made by mixing pigments
with a water-soluble emulsion, often
made of water and egg yolk or oil
and a whole egg. It dries completely
matte and the vibrant colors of
tempera paintings can last for
centuries. Tempera was commonly
used in Byzantine and Early
Renaissance painting but
experienced a revival around the
turn of the 20th century.
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3. Printmaking
 Making of images on a paper that can be reproduced multiple times
by a printing process.

The Techniques are:

a) Engraving
b) Etching
c) Woodcut
d) Woodblock printing
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4. Calligraphy
 The art of giving letter form to signs in an expressive,
harmoniouş and skillful manner.
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1. Sculpture
 The art of carving wood or forming clay, stone, etc, into
figures, statues, etc.

a) Modeling- An additive process. A sculpture doesn’t

immediately carve or chisel off the stones without a model.
It is the first part of the making after materials and tools are
readied.
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b) Carving- A subtractive process. All the unwanted parts are
chiseled off or cut away.
c) Casting- An additive process. Sculptures that are cast are
made from a metal that is melted down and is then poured
into a mold. The mold is allowed to cool, thereby hardening
the metal. This applies for reproducing more of image.
d) Assembling- An additive process. Assembling together all
gathered parts to form an actual sculptural work.
 Relief
Sculpture
A technique where the
sculpted elements
remain attached to a
solid background of the
same material.
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in the
round.
Also known as “free-
standing” that is meant
to be viewed from
multiple angles, or one
can go around it. It has
no background support
that belongs to three-
dimensional figure. The
major types of
sculpture in the round
are busts, sculptural
groups and statues.
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2. Architecture

 Also known as the “art and science of

building” especially if the aesthetic feature
are spotlighted. Accordingly, architecture
is the combination of engineer’s skill and
architect’s art to translate creative
thought in the construction of a building.